XIII - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
What are the problems brought by development?
1) unfavourable climate changes and natural disasters;
2) wars and political and socio-economic instability.
According to Klarin (2018), they are the ones who have negatively impacted on the environment, endangering the survival of the Earth and the future generations.
Humans
There must be a balance among the three pillars of sustainability (Klarin, 2018).
Triple Bottom Line Concept of SD
What are the three pillars of sustainability? (ESE)
Environmental Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Economic Sustainability
It is focused on maintaining the quality of the environment which is necessary for conducting the economic activities and quality of life of people (Klarin, 2018).
Environmental sustainability
strives to ensure human rights and equality, preservation of cultural identity, respect for cultural diversity, race and religion (Klarin, 2018).
Social sustainability
It is necessary to maintain the natural, social and human capital required for income and living standards. (Klarin, 2018).
Economic sustainability
- Emphasize that there is no contradiction between sustainability and development
- There is no development without sustainability or sustainability without development
Neoclassical economists
excellent tool for marginalization during the period of colonialism and imperialism
(ipe)
infrastructure development
political power
economic policy
What is development according to the classical theories?
development is driven by the transformation of traditional agriculture into modern industrialized production of various products and services, i.e. shifting from the traditional society to the stage of maturity and high consumption
Economic growth is a synonym for development
What is development according to the Neoliberal and modern development theories?
Development is a process whose output aims to improve the quality of life and increase the self-sufficient capacity of economies that are technically
more complex and depend on global integration
What are the Various Concepts of Development?
(shdd)
1) as structural transformation,
2) as human development
3) as development of democracy and
governance, and
4) as development as environmental
sustainability (Vázquez & Sumner as cited
by Klarin, 2018).
It is a process of targeted change,
which includes goals and resources to achieve these goals(Lele as cited by Klarin, 2018)
Development
What is the most acknowledged development indicator?
Human Development Index (HDI)
integrates different categories of socio-cultural, economic, ecological and political development of particular areas
Human Development Index (HDI)