Sunday, 23 February 2014

What does Sustainable Development mean?


1. How do you define ‘sustainable development’?  

In my opinion sustainable development is the concern about our planet based on environmental, cultural, economic and political challenges. Most critical challenges are in the environmental/ecological domain. It shows us that we need to aware of global scale of uncertainty causing by climate change, decreasing biodiversity, water scarcity, increasing human poverty, overfishing, and deforestation and so on. How we can reverse the unsustainable global development trends is in everyone’s hands and it requires wise decision-making considering all the aspects of sustainable world. (It reflects from my other studies and my own as well e.g. Global Education)
 
Reference:
Kaivola, T. Melen-Paaso, M. (2007). Education for Global Responsibility: Finnish Perspectives. Helsinki: Finnish ministry of Education: http://www.minedu.fi/export/sites/default/OPM/Julkaisut/2007/liitteet/opm31.pdf
 
Image retrieved from Education for Global Responsibility
 
 

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