Sustainable development - Group 31

Sustainable development

own views

1) Sustainable development has several major aspects,

·       Low cost

·       Environmental friendly

·       Intelligent building materials

We should use intelligent building materials to do these constructions.

(Manohara P.W.V. – 162694B)

2) Sustainable development is the development of the societies, economy, social and other aspects without polluting the environment. It can be called as developing in environmental friendly manner. Also we can use materials that environmental friendly in their whole life cycle assessment.

(Kurukulasooriya I.N. – 162643U)

3) Sustainable development means doing a specific construction while having a least life cycle cost. By the way it should have least environmental hazards, social hazards and most economic efficiency.

(Wijewnatha N.W.P.P. – 162687G)

4) Sustainable development means meeting human goals while at same time without changing stability of the natural system. It will help to protect environment for future generation as well as it will help to achieve social and economic development.

(Premathilaka U.G.K.A. – 162732R)

5)The actor process of developing, growth, progress in socially, environmentally, economically healthy manner.

(Piyaveera R.H.L.R.- 162662C)

Critical Review 

United Nation’s General Assembly (1987) defined the sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising   the ability of future generations to meet their own needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to compromising the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” but this definition doesn’t describe the real aspects of the sustainable development and it is not much suitable for current society.

According to Elliot (1994) sustainable development is an “optimal policy that seeks to maintain an ‘acceptable’ rate of growth in per capita real income without depleting the national environmental assets stock”. This definition is differ from previous one because it doesn’t mention about the future generation’s needs, also this definition is much more tend to the economical aspect than previous definition.

Denbarch (1998) defined “sustainable development recognizes that growth must be both inclusive and environmentally sound to reduce poverty and build shared prosperity for today’s population and to continue to meet the needs of future generations.” According to our group view this definition is better than previous two definitions because it achieve the aspects of sustainable development more than other definitions.  Also this definition identify about both economic and environmental aspect of sustainable development. This definition is mentioned about retain for the future generations similar to the first definition.

Group review

Satisfaction of human needs and aspirations is the major object of development. Sustainable development requires meeting that object without compromising the ability of the future generation to do it, and in a economically, environmentally and socially sound manner.