Sustainable Development

What is Sustainable Development The concept of sustainable development became known worldwide from the Brundtland Commission report Our Common Future "published in 1987 in connection with the preparation for the World Conference of the United Nations on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 1992.The World Commission on Environment and Development, established by the United Nations in 1983, defined sustainable development as: "development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Although a term widely used today, do you really understand the concept of sustainable development . Discuss the definition shown again and think about the needs you have in your own life. Do you think that there needs to be set against one another For example, if you plan on having clean air as a basic need but also envisages the use of cars both needs would be presenting a conflict between them.If I had to choose between them, which would you choose and how would base his decision . Just as inconsistencies on individual needs, conflicts arise from having to meet the needs of a family, a community, city and even an industry. The solution to these conflicts lies in finding balance economic, social and environmental development of these needs. Sustainable development means development go from one thought in terms of numbers - based on economic growth - qualitative one, which establishes close linkages between economic, social and environmental issues in a renewed democratic and participatory institutional framework capable of tapping opportunities that advance simultaneously in these three areas, no progress means going one over another. For the mutual reinforcement between these aspects are necessary to occur motivation and innovativeness generalized characteristic of a living system where a market economy and political democracy. Achieving this is no easy task and sometimes involve sacrificing one goal in favor of another, particularly in countries where poverty alleviation and meeting basic needs are top priority, even though it means the depredation of ecosystems. The differences between countries makes sustainable development a goal is still far from reach for many.The poorest countries suffer the consequences that the exploitation of their resources for subsequent export to developed sites that have the economic resources, human and technological as well as the knowledge to process and market these products getting the most profit, thus creating a marked asymmetry between economic, environmental and social relations between the industrialized and developing those. A global shift towards Sustainable Development is difficult, however if you start with small local actions and decisions that consider the economic, social and environmental performance, we can easily achieve a short-term change that will eventually end up translated into a change globally beneficial. Fuentes. Induambiental.