Sustainable Development in South Asia * Sustainable Development (SD) implies economic growth together with the protection of environmental quality‚ each reinforcing the other. Sustainable Development‚ thus‚ is maintaining a balance between the human need to improve lifestyles and feeling of well-being on one hand‚ and preserving natural resources and ecosystems‚ on which we and future generations depend. The main features that all the definitions have are as follows: * A desirable human
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Sustainable Development Sustainable development is defined as ‘the ability to meet our generation’s needs without compromising the needs of future generations‚ it contains two main theories‚ the concept of needs which is based on the idea of providing support to those whom are less fortunate‚ the second theory is called the idea of limitations which is based on the ability to have our technology meet our present needs without harming future generations’. There are many ways you can define sustainable
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The word ’sustainable’ means maintainable or bearable. Hence sustainable development refers to that development which may be prolonged for a considerable period of time or which may be bearable by the system and the society. It refers to a type of development that meets the needs of the present generation‚ maintains same level of development for a longer period of time‚ conserves the existing resources for the future generation so that same level of development could continue and causes very
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Why Do People Smoke? Shourav Banik 1111263042 ENG 105: 14 Abdus Selim May 2‚ 2012 Why Do People Smoke? Introduction Smoking is one of the most popular habits among people today. All around the world we see people smoking. Even in Bangladesh the number of smokers is quite high. Especially around the university campus young adults are seen smoking frequently. It can be said that among every friend circle in universities
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What Do Nurses Really Do? Alicia Wells The University of Southern Mississippi College of Nursing Over the years‚ the question of what nurses really do on a daily basis has confounded not only the general public‚ but also those who work in the healthcare field. However‚ one cannot attempt to explain what nurses do on a daily basis without first understanding what nursing is and why the healthcare field even exists. The field of nursing exists primarily to assist the physicians and to facilitate
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Why do people help? Helping behavior is an important topic in social psychology. It is important to understand why people help‚ when they help and reasons for helping others. According to Kassin‚ pro-social behavior is an action intended to benefit others. The author also describes several factors of why people help. Among them‚ one is kin selection which is preferential helping of genetic relatives‚ which results in the greater likelihood that genes held in common will survive ( 2010‚ page
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Over here you really get to see what people are made of Danny. You get to see how shallow people are‚ how weak they are. How strong they can be in horrible moments and then how the people you should be looking up to are hiding‚ and you have to look out for them instead of the other way around. You get to really see what a person is made of. Over there in Vietnam I learned to read people. I know what they’re going to do before they do it because I experience the same things over and over. After seeing
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Do Blind People Dream? Sight or vision is the capability of the eyes to receive visible light through the retina of each eye to where our nerve receptors send messages to our brain that we translate as colors‚ hues‚ and brightness. We have two main receptors in our eyes called cones and rods. Rods distinguish light not color. Cones are responsible for all the colors we see‚ but are sensitive to dim light‚ for example it’s difficult to make out colors in poorly lit situations yet you can see the
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Do People Have Premonitions? There are many debates on whether or not we have a sixth sense. That sixth sense is premonitions. The main questions asked are‚ do people have premonitions? Are they able to have premonitions? Does everyone have premonitions? Do only few people have premonitions? Most people will have dreams that will come true within the next day or the next few days. Many people get mild feelings of premonition; a feeling that something is about to happen‚ being good or bad. It can
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Sustainable Architecture "Sustainable Architecture" - this phrase in recent years is mentioned a lot. The concept of "sustainable architecture" is associated‚ even identified with the concept of green architecture‚ ecological architecture‚ environmentally friendly‚ energy efficient ... to reach a stable value for the environment human life‚ reduce negative impacts on the environment in the present and future. However‚ although this interpretation is correct‚ but only one aspect‚ because that’s
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