Analysis of Sustainable Development
Question A
Sustainability development analysis
The development goals of UN are expressed in terms of human and environmental well-being, couched in terms of major issue areas: example; health, food, water, energy and the environment.
The World Bank, for example, uses the discourse of ‘financial, physical, human, social and natural capital’ in its conceptualization of sustainable development. The Brundtland Commission report on ‘Our Common Future’ (WCED, 1987) focuses on institutional imperatives in addressing sustainable development issues, including political, economic, social and administrative systems. The Brundtland Report explicitly addresses the matter of production and technological systems, but without anchoring the discussion in the realities of the patchy, embryonic state of global environment and technology cooperation. It is significant that embedding sustainability development into mainstream policies for international cooperation in environment and technology has been underdeveloped, particularly at the global level. However, it is just as significant that where major partnerships in environment and technology exist between developed and developing countries, sustainability development issues are often in the forefront, often in the context of technical aid to the developing countries (Stein, 2002a). What this approach fails to achieve, however, is systematic knowledge transfer between and amongst countries that are not directly involved in such cooperative ventures. It also presupposes a model of innovation as emerging from the developed world to be subsequently adapted by the developing world, whereas the reality of innovation is far more complex and evenly distributed than typically acknowledged by the ‘donor’ countries.
Defining Sustainability
Defining sustainability is very difficult as the common use of the word sustainable suggests an ability to maintain some activity in the face of stress and this seems to be also the most
Sustainability development analysis
The development goals of UN are expressed in terms of human and environmental well-being, couched in terms of major issue areas: example; health, food, water, energy and the environment.
The World Bank, for example, uses the discourse of ‘financial, physical, human, social and natural capital’ in its conceptualization of sustainable development. The Brundtland Commission report on ‘Our Common Future’ (WCED, 1987) focuses on institutional imperatives in addressing sustainable development issues, including political, economic, social and administrative systems. The Brundtland Report explicitly addresses the matter of production and technological systems, but without anchoring the discussion in the realities of the patchy, embryonic state of global environment and technology cooperation. It is significant that embedding sustainability development into mainstream policies for international cooperation in environment and technology has been underdeveloped, particularly at the global level. However, it is just as significant that where major partnerships in environment and technology exist between developed and developing countries, sustainability development issues are often in the forefront, often in the context of technical aid to the developing countries (Stein, 2002a). What this approach fails to achieve, however, is systematic knowledge transfer between and amongst countries that are not directly involved in such cooperative ventures. It also presupposes a model of innovation as emerging from the developed world to be subsequently adapted by the developing world, whereas the reality of innovation is far more complex and evenly distributed than typically acknowledged by the ‘donor’ countries.
Defining Sustainability
Defining sustainability is very difficult as the common use of the word sustainable suggests an ability to maintain some activity in the face of stress and this seems to be also the most