what is sustainable development and why it is needed in any country?

1. Sustainable Development
Rajeev Kumar
MSW (TISS, Mumbai)
M.Phil (CIP, Ranchi)
Doctoral Fellow, IIT Kharagpur

8. what is sustainability ?
• Sustainability means reducing our harm on the environment and ultimately
reversing the harm we have already caused.
• Sustainability means renewing resources at a rate equal to or greater than the rate
at which they are consumed.
• Sustainability means living within the resources of the planet without damaging
the environment now or in the future.
• Sustainability means creating an economic system that provides for quality of life
while renewing the environment and its resources.
• A sustainable community is one that resembles a living system where all of the
resources (human, natural, and economic) are renewed and in balance for
perpetuity.
• Sustainability is creating a world where everyone can have fulfilling lives and enjoy
a rich level of well-being within the limits of what nature can provide.
• Sustainability means taking the long-term view of how our actions effect future
generations and making sure we don't deplete resources or cause pollution at
rates faster than the earth is able to renew them.

10. What is sustainable development?

14. What is green development?

15. What is green economy?

16. Green development
• Green development is a real estate development
concept that carefully considers social and
environmental impacts of development.
• It is defined by three sub-categories: environmental
responsiveness, resource efficiency, and community
and cultural sensitivity.
• Environmental responsiveness respects the intrinsic
value of nature, and minimizes damage to an
ecosystem.
• Resource efficiency refers to the use of fewer resources
to conserve energy and the environment.

17. How it started?
• Green development emerged as a result of the environmental
movement in the 1970s.
• In the real estate industry, use of the term commenced in 1987 with
a report from the World Commission on Environment and
Development, entitled "Our Common Future".
• The report includes 16 principles of environmental management,
designed to foster green development.
• It also discusses the traditional model of macroeconomic growth,
and its disregard for environmental consequences.
• Following this initial movement, the real estate industry
experienced a back-and-forth relationship with "green"
methodologies; environmental issues often came second behind
purely economic factors.
• Incessant environmental concern and legislation affecting the real
estate sector began to emerge, i.e. Green development.

18. Green development in practice
• The Holly Street Village Apartments
• The city of Pasadena, California has recently
adopted a general plan based on seven guiding
principles: community needs and quality of life,
preservation of Pasadena's historic character,
economic vitality, a healthy family community,
lack of need for automobiles, promoted as a
cultural, scientific, corporate, entertainment and
educational center for the region, and community
participation.

19. Inn of the Anasazi
• Zimmer Associates International, a real estate
development firm, completed the Inn of the
Anasazi in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1991.
• Robert Zimmer (co-founder) and his partners,
Steve Conger and Michael Fuller,
• set a goal to construct a building that would,
"showcase energy- and resource-saving
technologies, strengthen local community, offer
first class elegance, and financially reward its
participants

20. Inn of the Anasazi

21. Taipei 101
• Taipei 101, stylized as TAIPEI 101, is a 1,667
feet (508 m) tall skyscraper located in Taipei,
Taiwan which has received LEED (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design)
certification from the U.S. Green Building
Council as the highest score in history.
• In this project, "TAIPEI" is an acronym for
"technology," "art," "innovation," "people,"
"environment," and "identity.

23. The Holly Street Village Apartments

24. Critiques of green development
• A common critique of green development is that it
negatively affects the way real estate developers do
business, as it can increase cost and create delay.
• For example, becoming LEED-certified can contribute
to additional costs.
• This includes additional building design and
construction fees, interior design and construction
fees, building operations and maintenance fees,
neighborhood development fees, home and campus
fees, and volume program fees
• LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

25. Sustainable development goal
What it is???

27. Sustainable Development Goals
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are
the current harmonized set of seventeen future
international development targets.
• The Official Agenda for Sustainable Development
adopted on 25 September 2015 has 92
paragraphs,
• with the main paragraph (51) outlining the 17
Sustainable Development Goals and its
associated 169 targets.
• This included the following seventeen goals:

28. Sustainable Development Goals
• Poverty – End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• Food – End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture
• Health – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Education – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and
promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Women – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Water – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all
• Energy – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all
• Economy – Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

29. Continued
• Infrastructure – Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation
• Inequality – Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Habitation – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable
• Consumption – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns[113]
• Climate – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, ensuring
that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are in placed
• Marine-ecosystems – Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and
marine resources for sustainable development
• Ecosystems – Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of
terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and
halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
• Institutions – Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and
inclusive institutions at all levels
• Sustainability – Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global
partnership for sustainable developmen

30. Sustainable development goals

32. SDG and MDG
• As of August 2015, there were 169 proposed targets for
these goals and 304 proposed indicators to show
compliance.
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replace the
eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which
expired at the end of 2015.
• The MDGs were established in 2000 following
the Millennium Summit of the United Nations.
• Adopted by the 189 United Nations member states at the
time and more than twenty international organizations,
these goals were advanced to help achieve the
following sustainable development standards by 2015.

35. Millennium development goals
• To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• To achieve universal primary education
• To promote gender equality and empower women
• To reduce child mortality
• To improve maternal health
• To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• To ensure environmental sustainability (one of the
targets in this goal focuses on increasing sustainable
access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation)
• To develop a global partnership for development

36. What we achieve and lost ??

37. A brief discussion
• MDG and SDG: how relevant they are in
present context?

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