SEEU Review vol. 5 Nr. 2 (pdf) - South East European University

SEEU Review Volume 5, No. 2, 2009
Due to this, the sustainable development can be characterized as a sui
generis balance between the economic development and the environment.
But, this does not explain and absorb the whole concept of sustainable
development. It also means integrating social, economic and environment
issues altogether. According to many authors, the economic and social
policy as well as the policy on the environmental policy, are the three pillars
of the sustainable development, which should not be understood as sufficient
in order to determine the concept of sustainable development; a lot of other
spheres should be taken into consideration to get closer to the concept we are
discussing about. Those areas will be explain later in this paper. Some of
the definitions of the sustainable development relate it to the moderate use of
natural resources, and in this respect it is seen as a development that tends to
build strategies which will enable economic and social development that
avoids the effusive exploitation of natural resources and will not harm the
environment itself.
Similar to this is the definition by which the sustainable development is
determined as management of natural resources which enables their
sustainability. Other authors point out that sustainable development is a
dynamic category in which economic, social and ecological components are
integrated and which represent only the basic components, because the
sustainable development has other components too, which are oriented
towards better education, development of renewable energy sources and
rational and sustainable use of energy, reduction of wastes, technological
and scientific development, reduction of poverty, improvement of quality of
life and sufficient amount of food for people (which is quite worrying having
into consideration that more than 900 million people in the world are facing
the permanent famine and lack of food), reduction of negative effects from
climate changes, especially droughts, as well as other aims that come out of
these basic objectives. For some authors, the downfall of sustainable
development is the most crucial that humanity is facing nowadays. Along
this line there are even more radical claims that sustainable development has
to offer solutions for saving the world, especially through fighting the
negative effects from climate changes and development of renewable energy
and application of new clean technologies which will reduce these negative
effects. These were only a part of conceptual definitions of the sustainable
development, given by eminent world authorities, which only verifies the
complexity of the definition of the concept of sustainable development. This
is quite understandable having in mind the volume and actuality of the
concept of sustainable development.
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