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Understanding Sustainable Development: Definitions and Different Perspectives

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This educational content aims to define sustainable development while exploring varying viewpoints on the topic. It addresses the anticipated collapse of food production predicted by the Club of Rome in 1999 and invites discussions on its primary causes. Furthermore, it encourages brainstorming potential technological breakthroughs that could counter these forecasts. The content also examines the official UN/Brundtland definition, discussing the interplay between social, economic, and environmental development and evaluating the pros and cons of this definition.

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Understanding Sustainable Development: Definitions and Different Perspectives

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  1. Learning Objectives:To formulate a defintion of sustainable developmentTo explain why different people may have different viewpoints on the defintion of sustainable development.

  2. Extension questions • Identify the main causes of the collapse in food production and agricultural output predicted by the club of Rome in their 1999 forecast. • Suggest technological breakthroughs that would make these forecasts mistaken.

  3. The official UN/ Bruntland definition:

  4. What is meant by social, economic and environmental development?

  5. How may trying to achieve economic development affect environmental development? What is meant by social, economic and environmental development?

  6. Our evaluation….. What is good and bad about this defintion?

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