Sustainable development: Is an impartial equilibrium between human needs and natural resources existent?

Natural Resources, Development Models and Sustainable Development

This paper starts out from the optimistic assumption that the basic policies for environmental economic development are known but uncertainties surround the speed of their adoption. In many developing countries the key obstacle is poor governance: consequently, renewable resources continue to be mined, non-renewable resources are depleted irresponsibly, and reductions in pollution intensity lag...

On Harnessing Natural Resources for Sustainable Development

Is the Present Pace of Economic Development Sustainable? The mainstream economics has characteristically been myopic in visualizing the relationship between human beings and the ecosphere, the surrounding in which they live, work and prosper. Man thought that everything, whether animate or inanimate, exists for him and he exists only for himself. Nature is bountiful to him; moreover, nature is ...

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development

Human Resource Development: Ethics and Justice Needs for Sustainable Development

This article focuses on what is meant by human resource development and how the world currently treats human resources. It examines the notion of ‘development’ as generated in an economic paradigm and delineates its impact on human beings in different societies. Further, it explores the processes of globalization that are operating at unprecedented levels and how they impact on human resource d...

Sustainable Development: Between Moral Injunctions and Natural Constraints

Sustainable development must satisfy the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Although it looks at the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, this article focuses specifically on an analysis of the concept in conjunction with the use and protection of natural resources. It shows how taking account of environme...