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development in environmentally sensitive areas of Sri Lanka. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has a similar definition: Sustainable development is a commitment to improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems. 
Williams (2010) explains the issues of capitalism as follows: Marx captured capitalisms general drive for expansion with his classic definition of the root purpose of the system-the self-expansion of capital, symbolized as M-C-M. helps to generate new knowledge by creating a framework for sustainable
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Sustaining this capacity requires analysis and understanding of feedbacks and, more generally, the dynamics of the interrelations between ecological systems and social systems (Berkes, Colding, & Folke, 2003; Van der Leeuw, 2000). own needs. The Ontario Round Tableof Environment and Economy (ORTEE) assembled a Sustainable Communities Working Group that developed eleven principles defining sustainable communities. 
To sustain the deliberative democracy and development in progressive democratic economics, 07 characteristics have been identified by: Considering all these definitions and argument, Maser (2013) says that development means personal and social transformation to a higher level of consciousness and a greater responsibility toward the next generation. Those three features are: 1) An imperative for constant expansion of economy as a whole, 2) The drive for profit in each economic unit and 3) A built-in focus on the short term. endobj
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While the ecological footprint is a valuable aid to explaining sustainability analysis, it requires methods, definitions and variables specific to a given community in order to be a pragmatic means for measuring sustainability. Some of the scholars and researchers have spotted the dilemma of economic development at many levels. Cuba alone did, based on the data it reports to the United Nations. (WWF, 2006: p. 19), 9. Istvan Meszaros explaining this problem: to say that science and technology can solve all our problems in the long run is worse than believing in witchcraft; for it tendentiously ignores the devastating social embeddedness of present-day science and technology. To reiterate, in this study, I define sustainability as the equitable, ethical and efficient use of natural resources for fulfilling the needs of current and future generations of human beings and enhancing their wellbeing. The word sustainability originally came from the Latin word called sustinere this means to hold. Sri Lanka was ranked 55th. No matter what object of sustainability is measured; there is a range of time across which sustainability is not achievable. Understanding contemporary issues of
Daniel Botkin says that We see a landscape that is always in flux, changing over many scales of time and space (Kates, 2011). It is very difficult to define the concept and application of sustainability. The process must consider the ecological wholeness and the capacity to recover the biological environment, the actual relationships among the so-called 3Es: Environmental resilience, Economic vitality, and social Equity. At the beginning, it was limited to the western countries but gradually spread to all the parts of world. If any part of the capitalist economy is not expanding its economic growth rate more than 2%, social systems collapse, with increasing unemployment rates, company lay-offs, government tax income failures, and budget crises. They argue that failed modernization, alternative visions, grass roots participation, people power, and environmental sustainability: these are not in a vocabulary typically associated with the most influential advocate of global capitalist development. Further, Peet and Watts raise vital questions such as: could the World Bank approach really have embraced the popular energies of ordinary people in the name of sustainable development alternatives? Over the last four decades in United States of America GPI considerably lower than the GDP because GPI considers the income inequality, social malaise, and degradation of natural environment (Ukaga, Maser, and Reichenbach, 2013). Second, the pressure of production on land resources is transmitted to the environment through social relations or pressure of deprivation. These scholars have clearly explained that the rise of neoliberal economic theory is a self-serving materialism and positivist science in an unwaveringly pro-growth paradigm of the modern economic world. Definitions, including the official definition of the Brundtland Report, concentrate on absolute and chronic poverty and development, with concern for the state of the ecological systems and processes of biophysical environment, giving attention mainly two kinds of equity: 1) Intra-generational equity which concerns the equity between haves and have-nots; 2) Intergenerational equity, which concerns the equity between present and future generations. After publication of the report of the Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, in 1987, this term, sustainability has commonly been paired with the concept of development, (Onions, 1964; WCED, 1987). From the earliest civilizations to the present they have gone from ecologically-dominated to human-dominated systems (Beddoea et al., 2009). Peet and Watts (2000) examine the history of development discourse since the industrial revolution, in four historical phases: First Industrial revolutions, Classical imperialism, Growth to Crisis and the contemporary period, demonstrating not only transformations in discourse, but also concomitant changes in the role of the state, civil society and the market. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. These critical views and ideas were frequently expressed at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and helped to convince some observers that sustainable development had become a public relations cloak for corporate globalization. The initial set of rules, regulations, policies and strategies should be established by those who use the resources of a social-ecological system, or by the government with a high level of user-participation. 4 0 obj
Such movements differ from mainstream environmentalism or sustainable development because they are generally couched in terms of defending not only particular environments, but also the lives and livelihoods that those environments sustain. Stephen Schneider, Stanford biologist and climate scientist, illustrates this with his analysis of capitalist attitudes on climate change. complicated and requires careful and extensive research. Most conventional economists thought that even this gargantuan climate change, equivalent to the scale of the change from the ice age to an interglacial epoch in a hundred years, rather than thousands of years, would have only a few percent impact on the world economy. 8g&b2ayOcoSu c{Jfcp|Hza7!.m@;nW!?&-0XW#Mz1.zO]%)#/
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Both natural and human resources are essential to develop the wellbeing of human life through time and space. The vision was couched in the idiom of modernization In recent years, however many elements of this vision have been challenged. Little and Horowitz (1987) developed the regional political ecology approach, focusing on the producer and ecological pressure in a particular geographic location. These have been applied over a wide range of spatial and temporal. According to them, there is not a climax or an endpoint of the sustainability process. This document pointed out three critical areas of the development process: economic, society and environment. In ensuing discussions, many important arguments came to light and many reasonable complaints were launched about double standards, of new rules for current poor and peripheral locations that reinforce development discourse while erecting barriers to achieving development. Consider the variety of values that humans derive from the environment in a particular place. The capitalist system is a problem in itself. Most post-independence development efforts of developing countries, including Sri Lanka, have failed because they were designed according to western development models that communities failed to adopt.
xZn$}W*AhF In 1987, the Brundtland commission published Our Common Future, emphasizing the need for sustainable development practices. For example, a General indicator is Job Growth Rate. In this crisis, they do not calculate or evaluate the environmental cost. This study will examine government laws and regulations, and development policies and strategies, and their applicability to enhance the sustainability of communities in the three environmentally sensitive areas. The Brundtland Report definition focused on two key concepts. Source: ORTEE (Ontario RoundTableof Environment and Economy). Dictionary definitions of sustainability have in common the sense of maintaining, supporting, enduring or similar meanings. (2009) Sustainability, http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/edik-59fmzf: Retrieved on: 09.12.2013. of people in the systems. As Williams (2010) explains, these are: 1) The concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the worlds poor to which overriding priority should be given, and, 2) The concept of limitations imposed by the estate of technology and social organization on the environments ability to meet present and future needs.. The approach of sustainability
Footprints are therefore proportional to a communitys combined population and per capita consumption of resources (Wackernagel and Rees, 1996). 0000006561 00000 n
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Using ESI they publish an annual report, ranking the countries from 1999 through 2005. The annual report of the EPI was published in 2012 and ranked 132 countries on 22 environmental performance indicators under ten policy categories as mentioned below: 10) Climate change Source: http://epi.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/2012-epi-full-report_0.pdf.
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