Do you thing that the lifestyle of the inhabitants of your town or city reflects behavior that is line with the concept of sustainable development? In your opinion what should be improved? Daniela Escobar

1. Daniela Escobar
San Salvador, El Salvador

2. Definition Sustainable
Development
 By definition sustainable development is
“development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs”.
 If people really understood this concept the entire
world would be seen as a whole system connected
through time and space.

3.  If everyone could really grasp this idea every action we
take that being economical, political, agricultural,
technological, or others would be in line with the idea
that they can affect not only the present but may have
repercussion in the future and compromise the needs
of the next generations.
 In fact, no nation can build their future in a secluded
way.
Definition Sustainable
Development

4. Sustainable development
dimensions
No
pollution
Green
Efficient
If a city wants to be in line with
sustainable development it´s
production must have this
three dimensions:
•Efficient: Use the less possible
amount of resources for
production
•No Pollution: Produce or
develop without creating
pollution
•Green: create green areas,
recycling programs, clean
water, etc.

5. Do we lose now?
 Sustainable development doesn´t mean better ways of
doings things for the future but also for the present.
 Changing the way we work and live doesn´t mean our
quality of life will decrease.

6. San Salvador
 Basing ourselves in the definition of sustainable
development and the three dimension to consider a
city in line with this concept, we can conclude that San
Salvador has a long way to go.

7. San Salvador
 The main weakness in San Salvador that an strategy of
sustainable development will try to eliminate are:
 Fragility of the economic structure and dependence of
external flows
 Consumerism at expense of internal savings and
investment
 Environmental degradation
 Weakening of productive capacities

8. San Salvador
 Even though, The National Foundation for
development (FUNDE) has been trying since 1992 to
implement a strategy of sustainable development in
San Salvador progress has been quite limited.

9. San Salvador
 High levels of pollution
 Water: 95% of water is polluted
 Soil
 Air : More than 54 million dollars are spent in San
Salvador on health effects of air pollution

10. San Salvador
 Public Transportation inefficient: Recent studies detail
a contaminant concentration of 201 to 300, a level
considered to be very harmful to the health of the
population.
 Inexistent Recycle culture
 Traffic
 Disorganized waste
 Business produce creating pollution

11. Changes
 In every society there exist three actors that can have
an impact in sustainable development and improve
the situation in San Salvador:
 The Government
 Private and public organizations
 Individuals

12. Changes
The Government
• Create new laws that
regulate business
production
• Create policies that
implement
sustainable
development
• Improve public
transportations
(Reduce pollution)
• Create education
campaigns
Organizations
• Produce without
polluting
• Better use of
resources for
producing
• Use less energy
Individuals
• Carpooling
• Use less energy at
home
• Recycle at home and
in neighborhoods

13. Conclusion
 In order to implement a real strategy of sustainable
development there must exist a true compromise of
the government, the organizations and the individuals
of San Salvador .