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Shashikanth Majagi
Lecturer In Zoology
GFGC Chickballapur
Karnataka
Email: smajgi@rediffmail.com
What is sustainable development?
Over the last three decades, sustainable development has been defined in
literally hundreds of different ways. One of the most popular definitions,
from the Brundtland Report Our Common Future, states:
Some key changes to the way we think, act and make decisions will
help ensure development, is ecologically sustainable. In particular:
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Interaction of the human social system with the ecosystem
Chain of effects through ecosystem and social system (commercial
fishing in the ocean)
Deforestation and cooking fuel (chain of effects through ecosystem
and social system)
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