Formulating Future Just Policies: Applying the Delhi Sustainable Development Law Principles

Applying Sustainable Development Principles and Sustainable Operating Practices in Shale Oil and Gas Production

Shale oil/gas is one of the most rapidly growing types of unconventional fossil fuel development and the abundance of this resource has postponed peak oil and gas. Physical scarcity of hydrocarbons is now less likely to occur in the near future; however, the likelihood of social scarcity is increasing. Despite the clear economic benefits of production in terms of jobs, tax revenue, and the prov...

Principles of Sustainable Development

The Future of Sustainable Development

The concept of sustainable development has become the organizing framework for much economic, social and environmental policy because it meets a policy need. Specifically, it has the potential to address environmental issues in a way that is more consistent with economic and social aspirations than the emphasis on ‘limits to growth’, which was characteristic of much environmental thinking in th...

Basic Principles of Sustainable Development

This chapter introduces the concept of sustainable development. We begin by disaggregating the components of the concept and showing how each developed through the course of its earlier history. The goals expressed or implied by the sustainable development are multidimensional, raising the issue of how to balance objectives and how to judge success or failure. Though it may be impossible to pos...

Veterinary Compounding – Formulating the Future