Sustainable Development
Etymological meaning
Derived from Latin word “Sustenare” which means “to hold up”
or “to support” and in modern context it is called “Maintain”
Acc to Brudtland Report
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.”
“Sustainability is defined as a requirement of our generation to manage
the resource base such that the average quality of life that we ensure
ourselves can potentially be shared by all future generations”
Geir B. Asheim
“Sustainable development is defined as achieving lasting satisfaction
of human needs and improvement of the quality of human life. It involves environmental, economic, social and
cultural political considerations, which need to be addressed in a holistic and
integrated way.”
Walter
Filho
We also understand that quality of life is a system, too. It's good to
be physically healthy, but what if you are poor and don't have access to
education? It's good to have a secure income, but what if the air in your part
of the world is unclean? And it's good to have freedom of religious expression,
but what if you can't feed your family? So sustainable development implies :
1. Maximization
of Human well being : Sustainable Development can be
defined in technical terms as a development path along which the maximization
of human well-being for today’s generations
2. Betterment
of present as well as future : It suggests today’s generations does not lead to
declines in future well being . Attaining this path requires eliminating those
negative externalities that are responsible for resource depletion and
environmental degradation .it also
requires securing those public goods that are essential for economic
development.
3. A System
connected with space and time : Sustainable development require that we see the
world as a system—a system that connects space; and a system that connects time.
When think of the world as a system over time, you start to realize that the
decisions our grandparents made about how to farm the land continue to affect
agricultural practice today. When you think of a world as a system over space
you grow to understand that air pollution from one particular country to
another.
4. Understanding
of ourselves and our worlds: The concept of sustainable development is rooted
in this sort of systems thinking. It helps us understand ourselves and our
world.
Dimensions Of Sustainable Development
Human: Education,
Employment, Human Capital, HRD, Human Development, Human Spirituality, lifestyle,
equal opputunities
Health : Mental Physical spiritual well
being, balanced diet, safe drinking water, clean air, sanitation, environmental
hygiene, primary health care and education
Financial: Basic Needs,
Economic efficient, producing useful goods, labor productivity
Natural: Ecology, Natural
Resources, Flourishing Environment
Social: Culture, Social
equity, social change, social values, Social norms, Community development
Role Of Education in Sustainable Development
1. Educated
Elite
2. Reorientation
of Moral and Spiritual Values
3. Environmental
Education
4. Changing
Attitudes
5. HRD
Education
6. Development
of Right aspirations of life
7. Improving
Economic and financial conditions
8. Sense
of obligation of Citizenship
9. Reduction
in Unemployment
10. Development
of capacity of independent thinking
11. Inculcation
of corporate responsibility
12. Socialization
13. National
Consciousness
14. Equal
Opportunities to all
15. Population
Education
16. Ecological
education
