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Sustainability
Rashid .A. Ateye
Snr. Environmental Advisor
Defining
Sustainable
Development
Sustainable development:
meeting
Elements of sustainability
Environment
Economy
Society
the sustainable
development triangle
Elements of sustainability
Environment
Economy
Society
Elements of sustainability
Environment
biodiversity
materials
energy
biophysical interactions
Elements of sustainability
money and capital
employment
technological growth
investment
market forces
Economy
- World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987
Elements of sustainability
human diversity (cultural, linguistic, ethnic)
equity (dependence / independence)
quality of life
institutional structures and organization
political structures
Society
The 3 Es Model
Ecology
Economy
Equity
Pillars of Sustainable
Development
Economic Development
Poverty eradication
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the worlds
people with income less than $1/day
Basic health services for all, reduce health
threats
Increase food availability
Combat desertification, mitigate effects of
drought and floods
Provision of clean drinking water
Enhance industrial productivity
Energy
Some key issues:
Health
Good health is vital for eradicating poverty
and achieving sustainable development.
Some key issues:
Reduce mortality rates in 2015: by 66.7% for
children & infants under 5; by 75% for maternal
mortality rates
Control & eradicate communicable diseases, reduce
HIV prevalence, combat malaria, tuberculosis
Ensure that chemicals are not used and produced in
ways that harm human health
Reduce air pollution
Agriculture
Agriculture is central to sustainable development. About 70% of
the poor in developing countries live in rural areas and depend in
one way or another on agriculture for their survival.
Livestock Development
Livestock development
SOCIETY
ECONOMY
HEALTH
ENVIRONMENT
Sustainability: PROBLEMS
Sustainability: SOLUTIONS
Sustainable development
and economic growth
Economic growth must be made:
less material intensive (dematerialization of
the economy)
less energy intensive
more equitable in its impacts
lack of accountabiity
failure to make the bodies whose policy
actions degrade the environment
responsible for their actions
Sustainable development...
considers
ECONOMY
ENVT
SOCIETY
TRADITIONAL
DECISION MAKING
ECONOMY
ENVT
NON-PARTICIPATORY
SOCIETY
FRAGMENTED
TRADITIONAL
DECISION MAKING
ECONOMY
ENVT
SOCIETY
SOCIETY
TRADITIONAL
DECISION MAKING
ECO- ECONOMY
SYSTEM
HEALTH
ENVIRONMENT
ECOSYSTEM-BASED
DECISION MAKING
SOCIETY
PARTICIPATORY
ECO- ECONOMY
SYSTEM
HEALTH
ENVIRONMENT
INTEGRATED
ECOSYSTEM-BASED
DECISION MAKING
Fragmented decision-making
private
other
interests
community
groups
public
ISSUE
municipal
regional
federal /
national
provincial /
state
Integrated decision-making
private
other
interests
community
groups
public
ISSUE
municipal
federal/
federal
national
provincial/
state
regional
Sustainability:
How do we move from
rhetoric to reality?
principles
principles
policy
principles
policy
practice
To be useful, principles of
sustainability must:
be easily understood
be applicable in many contexts
be transferrable across scales
translate well from fundamental values into
applied policy and practical action
identify possibilities for radical
transformative change AND
positive incremental change
One example:
discipline
discipline
discipline
discipline
ISSUE
discipline
discipline
discipline
discipline
Thank you