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• Policies and programs to provide services including building highways, managing parks
and providing medical access to the disadvantaged.
• Policies and programs explicitly directed at improving the business climate through
specific efforts, business finance, marketing, neighbourhood development, business
retention and expansion, technology transfer, real estate development and others. 22
2.2 Sustainable environmental development
The spectrum of environment and development hazards has changed considerably over the years
of human existence. Over the past years environment has been degrading all over the world. The
problem now is that it’s happening at a very fast rate and not leaving the environment to recover
and regenerate. (Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through
depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction
of wildlife).
The greater demands placed on the environment by an ever increasing human population and
production combined with unsustainable consumption patterns places increasingly severe stress
on the life-supporting capacities of our planet is putting and it is draining on the earth’s limited
natural resources. Rapidly growing cities, unless well-managed, face major environmental
problems. The increase in both the number and size of cities calls for greater attention to issues of
local government and municipal management. 23
Leaders and experts from around the world over the past years had meetings and conferences to
come up with strategies and plans to save the earth and its environment. The Earth Summit
influenced all subsequent UN conferences, which have examined the relationship between human
rights, population, social development, women and human settlements and foreseen the need for
environmentally sustainable development was necessary.
22 UN Economic development [online]. 2012 [cit.2012.04.14]. Found from:
http://www.un.org/un60/60ways/ec_dev.shtml
23 Environment for Development [online]. 2010 [cit.2012.04.15]. Found from:
http://www.unep.org/PDF/FinalMTSGCSS-X-8.pdf
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