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II Number 2 2011for Environmental Rehabilitation and Conservation
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Volume III No.
[ISSN 0975 2 2012 [72 – 79]
- 6272] [ISSN 0975 - 6272]
Received: July 24, 2012 ⏐ Accepted: November 16, 2012 ⏐ Online: December 25, 2012
Abstract
The concept of sustainable development is still food, healthy environment and greenery ethics,
being developed and the definition of the term economics, chemistry, physics, statistics, and
is constantly being revised, extended, and engineering. Sustainability is not around us.
refunded, its main components are the Without sustainability environmental
economic, social, and environmental factors. deterioration and economic decline will be
Sustainable development is the concept of feeding on each other leading to poverty,
environmental protection for the sake of future pollution, poor health, political upheaval and
generation. Sustainability is the process of unrest. The environment is not to be seen as a
change in which exploitation of resources, stand-alone concern. We need to tackle the
direction of investments orientation of environmental degradation in a holistic manner
technological changes, etc. Sustainable in order to ensure both Economic and
development is the preservation of the Environmental sustainability. Forests play an
production possibilities of an economy to important role in environmental and economic
provide the same goods and services obtained sustainability. They provide numerous goods
from nature. Sustainable development and services and maintain life support systems
involves disciplines such as ecology, biology, for life on earth. Some of these life support
an opinion but imperative. For a better India to systems of major economic and environmental
live in; we need good air, pure water, nutritious importance.
For correspondence:
Keywords: Sustainable development ⏐
1
Singhania University, Pacheribari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, Environment and Development ⏐ Social
India
2
Foresting ⏐ Green Economics of India
Department of Biotechnology & Life Science, Adarsh
institute of Management & Science Dhamnod, (M.P.), India
E-mail: tusharkumargandhi@gmail.com
Georgescu Roegen (1972) suggested that petrochemical units, leads to climate change.
actual human population need to be reduced With countries habitual to periodic epidemics
rather than stabilized to ensure the maximum facing he menaces of bird flue fraught with
period of existence of human species. He based disastrous consequences for human life.
his view on the Entropy low of physics. Its spread in winter appears a trickle unusual.
Economic growth relies on high entropy which The recent surfacing to chikungunya in Italy, a
it uses and disperses. Eventually the stock of disease so far confined to warmer tropical
such resources will be completely dispersed climate change which emerges critical to
and no longer available for production. In his horizon. These are cases of global warming.
view unlimited economic growth is in principle Experts had been warming that global warming
impossible and there is no possibility of human is fuelling the spread of epidemics in areas
intervention making it so because of operation higher to unaffected. Large scale emission of
of the basic principles of entropy. carbon dioxide from industries is responsible
United Nations conference on Environment for these climate devastations and the
and development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil adversely affected 262 million people between
in 1992, United Nations conference on 2000 and 2004 by these climatic disasters have
sustainable development 1993; and world been mostly the poor.
summit for sustainable development Thus, globalization enthused conventional
Johannesburg 2002. productivity oriented growth models with
Brundtland Report 1987: Sustainable excessive consumerism and comfortable, life
development is development that meets the style ,has led to climatic change through
needs of the present without compromising the emission of green house gases, mainly carbon-
ability of future generations to meet their own dioxide which trap heat in atmosphere leading
needs. to large scale climatic disasters causing
miserable life conditions for poor in
Global warming - climate change
developing world.
We have to pay the ecological and human costs
of globalizing agriculture as well as industry. Poverty eradication and sustainable
It is a major signal that we need a shift from livelihoods
production oriented conventional modern Poverty and a degraded environment are
agriculture to ecologically resilient agriculture. closely inter-related, especially where people
Besides these phenomena, the emission of depend for their livelihoods primarily on the
green house gases through thermal plants, natural resource base of their immediate
chemical industries units, nuclear arsenal, environment. Restoring natural systems and
drinking water, sanitation, water for system is one of the major focuses of
agriculture. ecological economics.
• Energy: Sustainable energy development
Conclusion
and consumption, house hold, transport,
Social and Environmental stresses are the
industry.
failures of institutions to manage and provide
India’s green economy public goods to correct the spillovers. Getting
Economics is going green. Its latest concept is socially preferred outcomes require institutions
sustainable development which can only be that can identify who bears the burden of social
achieved if economic theory can be utilized to preferred outcomes require institutions that can
determine sustainable natural resources. identify who bears the burden of social and
Development can be sustainable if it has roots environmental neglect and who benefits and
in its own people, culture, soil and heritage who balance these diverse interests within
rather than the glamour of the others. society. This perspective helps in
Sustainability is not an option but imperative. understanding why technically sound policy
For better a better world to live in; we need advice is so seldom taken up. Thus, sustainable
good air, pure water, nutritious food, healthy development is about enhancing human well
environment and greenery around us. Without being thorough time.
sustainability environmental deterioration and So, is enjoying physical security and basic civil
economic decline will be feeding on each other and political liberties. And so is it appreciating
leading poverty, pollution, poor health, the natural environment, breathing fresh air,
political upheaval and unrest. drinking clean water, living among an
abundance of plant and animal varieties, and
India’s environmental ethics
not irrevocably undermining the natural
Ecological economics accounts not only for the
processes that produce and renew these
financial constraints on consumption, as in
features.
conventional economics, but also for the
There is both a need and a scope for regional
natural constraints implied by the limited
and global cooperation in sustainable
ability of the environment to provide natural
development. Some of the areas of common
resources and to absorb the wastes of
concern are marine and riparian issues,
production and to absorb the wastes of
transboundary environmental impacts, and
production and consumption. Sustainable
management of bioresources, technology
management of the economic and ecological
sharing and sharing of sustainable development
experiences. Efforts must be made, especially