Sustainable development: ecological, economic systems interaction

Question 1

What is sustainability

Answer 1

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Question 2

What is Our Common Future 1987

Answer 2

Act that set out three reinforcing aims of sustainable devlopment

Question 3

What are the three reinforcing aims of sustainable development

Answer 3

1. Improved equity in resource distribution benefits across and within societies
2. Improving human well-being
3. Development that is within environmental constraints and maintains ecological integrity over intergenerational timescales

Question 4

What do we need to achieve sustainable development

Answer 4

1. Make Profit
2. Provide good incomes for workers
3. Provide high levels of well being for workers
4. Stay within environmental limits

Question 5

What does sustainability concern

Answer 5

means meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Question 6

What is intergenerational equity

Answer 6

Equity between generations

Question 7

What is intragenerational equity

Answer 7

Equity within a generation

Question 8

What are Daly’s 4 operating principles

Answer 8

1. Renewables: Harvest rates = regeneration rates
2. Pollution: Waste emission rates = natural assimilative capacities of the ecosystems into which the wastes are emitted to
3. Non-renewables: benefits should be split between current income and investment such that a renewable substitute is available at depletions
4. Macroeconomic controls: minimise matter/energy through the economy, control population growth