Sustainable Development

In my opinion sustainable development is something like a “Goal”, because if we look at a dictionary we find that the word “Goal” can be defined as target area, aim, score or race’s end, which has a start and end, and it’s almost the same thing to me as sustainable development. Sustainable development is something like the end toward which effort is directed, it is something that we start and work on it over time until we achieve it, and there is always a progress and maintenance.

Sustainable development is not just a goal it is a combination between sustainability and the process of change that enables human needs that should be met effectively. According to the United Nation it is hard to measure sustainable development; it requires using a variety of tools, indicators. “These indicators are relevant to monitor particular policy concerns and targeted at particular audiences, and it does also requires frameworks: Conceptual frameworks, which reflect the integrated nature of sustainable development while organizing the core indicators. Statistical frameworks that help to ensure that the statistical basis is of sufficient quality and sufficiently coherent to allow basic data set covering different aspects to be linked together”.

The following graph is a scheme of sustainable development: at the confluence of three preoccupations:





References:


[http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/isd.htm]

[http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/doc99/framwork.pdf ]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Sustainable_development]