The true meaning of sustainable development is comprehensive growth of human lives. This is a phase of development in which present needs should be fulfilled, future generation can also full fill their needs and in this process our ecosystem also remain healthy and sustained. There are many definitions of sustainable development given by social activists, the essence is the idea of development should be conscious use of our natural resources in order to save the resources for future use. The seed of destruction is contained in modern urbanization. We need to control our greed. The centre point of sustainable development should be to full fill fundamental necessities only. Our social activists have guessed very earlier that rapid urbanization will have serious effect on nature especially adverse effect on our ecosystem, side effects because of blind harness of water resource and biodiversity. Because of so called development, economic disparity has been risen. Nature as well as society has been imbalanced because of the huge gap between rich and poor. To fix this problem a new concept of development has risen called sustainable development in which every section of society is developed, comprehensive development of overall society and development should be extensive and permanent.
What is sustainable development?
Many philosophers and activists have describes sustainable development but the most relevant definition was given by Brundtland commission in 1987 and it says: "development should be done in such a manner that the needs of present is fulfilled and that has no adverse effect on future availability of those resources." According to this commission sustainable development has three objectives : 1. Financial efficiency 2. Social acceptance 3. Environmental durability. In Brundtland commission report, many points are highlighted of development. According to it, the production system of development should honour environment. There should be a system to remove unbalanced growth. Economic growth should be in manner to fulfil fundamental necessities and less use of natural resources.
Sustainable Development and Environment: The adverse effect of rapid urbanization is imbalance in ecosystem. For the first time in 1972 there was talk on global level on the topic of protection of natural resources in Stockholm by United Nations and it was decided to take action immediately on this issue. Again in 1972, a journal named "Limits to Growth" was published by Club of Rome. It was said in the journal that if rapid economic growth is not balanced there will be serious effect on environment.
Way Forward: In Agenda 21, guidelines have been issued on development without harming nature. In Rio Declaration 27 basic principles of sustainable development have been laid down. Paris Agreement, it was a treaty in which the party states will have to reduce use of carbo dioxide, methane etc harmful gas in order to save earth.
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