SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SOCIAL SCIENCE
HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
 INDEX

• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• What is Development?
• History
• The Pillars of Sustainable Development
• Goals
• Objectives
• Challenges
• How to Achieve Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to

my teacher Mrs. Vandana Choubey as well as our
principal Mrs. Sangeeta Arora who gave me the golden
opportunity to do this holiday homework project on the
topic “Sustainable Development”.
 INTRODUCTION

• "Sustainable development is development that

meets the needs of the present, without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs,”
• It includes two main aspects:
  - The concept of 'needs', in particular, the
essential needs of the world's poor, to which
overriding priority should be given; and
- The idea of limitations imposed by the state of
technology and social organization on the
environment's ability to meet present and future
needs.
 WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?

• Development is a process that creates growth, progress, positive change or the

addition of physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic
components. 
• The purpose of development is a rise in the level and quality of life of the
population, and the creation or expansion of local regional income and
employment opportunities, without damaging the resources of the
environment. 
• Development is visible and useful, not necessarily immediately, and includes
an aspect of quality change and the creation of conditions for a continuation of
that change.
 HISTORY

•The industrial revolution is connected to the rise of the idea of sustainable

development. From the second half of the 19th century, Western societies started to
discover that their economic and industrial activities had a significant impact on the
environment and the social balance.
•The concept of sustainable development formed the basis of the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The
summit marked the first international attempt to draw up action plans and strategies
for moving towards a more sustainable pattern of development.
•Sustainable development was the solution to the problems of environmental
degradation discussed by the Brundtland Commission in the 1987 report ‘Our
Common Future’.
•The Brundtland Report was to investigate the numerous concerns that had been
raised in previous decades, namely, that human activity was having severe and
negative impacts on the planet, and that patterns of growth and development would
be unsustainable if they continued unchecked.
•It was not until the Rio Summit that the major world leaders recognized sustainable
development as the major challenge it remains today.
 THE PILLARS OF
S U S TA I N A B L E
DEVELOPMENT

• Sustainability is often thought of as a long-term goal. For

example, a more sustainable world, while sustainable
development refers to the many processes and pathways to
achieve it.
• The definition of sustainability may be taken further. It is
widely accepted that to achieve sustainability we must
balance economic, environmental and social factors in
equal harmony. 
• The three pillars of sustainable development –
economic growth, environmental, and social progress
carry across all sectors of development.
• Cultural diversity is also important. Sustainable
development is also a means to achieve a more
satisfactory, intellectual, emotional, moral, and spiritual
existence.
 GOALS OF SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT

• Sustainable development encourages us to conserve and enhance our resource

base, by gradually changing the ways in which we develop and use technologies.
• Goals:
1. To minimize the depletion of natural resources when creating new developments.
2. To create a development that can be maintained and sustained without causing
further harm to the environment.
3. To provide methods for retrofitting existing developments to make them
environment friendly facilities and projects.
 OBJECTIVES

• Securing economic development, social equity and justice, and environmental

protection is the goal of sustainable development. Although these three factors
can work in harmony, they are often found to conflict with one another.
• The aim of sustainable development is to balance our economic, environmental
and social needs, allowing prosperity for now and future generations.

• Sustainable development consists of a long-

term, integrated approach to developing and
achieving a healthy community by jointly
addressing economic, environmental, and
social issues, whilst avoiding the over
consumption of key natural resources.
 GENDER ENVIRONMENT HUMAN RIGHTS, NO POVERTY
EQUALITY INCLUSION,
PARTNERSHIPS

INCREASED MANAGEMENT
REDUCED
EFFICIENCY OF NATURAL
INEQUALITIES
AND GROWTH RESOURCES

PEACE AND
NO HUNGER
SECURITY
CHALLENGES • More recently, society has grown to realize that we
cannot live in a healthy society or economy with so
much poverty and environmental degradation.
Economic growth will remain the basis for human
development, but it must change and become less
environmentally destructive.
• The challenge of sustainable development is to put
this understanding into practice, changing our
unsustainable ways into more sustainable ones.

• The main challenges to sustainable development which are

global in character include poverty and exclusion,
unemployment, climate change, conflict and humanitarian aid,
building peaceful and inclusive societies, building strong
institutions of governance, and supporting the rule of law.
 HOW TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT

• Everyone has the privilege to a sound, spotless and safe climate. This can be
accomplished by lessening contamination, destitution, helpless lodging and
- The culture must value a
joblessness. Nobody, in this age, or in the future, ought to be dealt with
global benefit more than a
unfairly.
local one.
• Worldwide ecological dangers, for example, environmental change and poor - A responsibility towards
air quality should be diminished to ensure human and natural wellbeing. providing and sustaining
• Countries must be allowed to meet their basic needs of employment, food, resources for the future
energy, water and sanitation. If this is to be done in a sustainable manner, must be of more value
then there is a definite need for a sustainable level of population. than profit in the present
must be developed.
• Economic growth should be supported and developing nations should be
allowed a growth of equal quality to the developed nations.
 S USTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)

• Announced by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 193 Member countries formally
adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015.
• The Agenda defined 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets with the main focus
on “people, planet and prosperity”.
• These goals are a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.