SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sustainable development is a key concept in the management of population and resources, using examples show management techniques which are unsustainable and sustainable. Evaluate the reality of development for different areas of the world.

Sustainable development involves maintaining our current rate of development whilst leaving suitable resources behind for later generations to continue to develop. In this context then, environmental problems must be tackled by considering their relationship with the state of the economy and the wellbeing of society. In fact, the environment, the economy and society taken together, include everything that we need to consider for a healthy, prosperous and stable life.

Recently, a revolution in agricultural practices in the Western world has accelerated the development of mankind and increased the stresses placed upon the environment. During the 18th and 19th centuries modern farming machinery began to replace hand tools, whilst improved farmin...