Sustainable Development

What is sustainable development?

Environmentally acceptable development The term sustainable development was coined and offered to the world a new perspective on how to address the dilemma of advancing economic development while protecting environmental systems and enriching the quality of life for the present generation and future ones. Truth is, Holistic idea of protecting environment is for the survival of mankind

Evolvement of sustainability frameworks

neo-classical economics, where it has used dollars as the unit of measurement Next phase of evolution, ecological economics Third phase of the evolution considered triple bottom line; economic, social and environmental sustainability The latest phase of frameworks are sector, domain and issue based, where sectors such as transportation, commercial, industrial and residential etc were concerned and in case of domains divisions like energy, water, land etc were concerned

Simplicity

Neo- classical economics Ecological economics Triple bottom line Domain, Sector, Issue based

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Examples for sustainable development methods

Natural sources like Solar power instead of fossil fuel is a good example for sustainable development

Reuse, recycle, reduction and recover is a key component of sustainable development

Examples for sustainable development

Greywater reuse

Rainwater harvesting

Important
For more information refer the Green Building Council of Sri Lanka, especially the introduction.