Question

What is Sustainable development? Write four(or more) characteristics of sustainable development.

Answer 1

Sustainability is related to the quality of life in a community -- whether the economic, social and environmental systems that make up the community are providing a healthy, productive, meaningful life for all community residents, present and future.

How has the quality of life in your community changed over the last 20 or 40 years?

How has your community changed economically?Are there fewer or more good-paying jobs -- are people working more and earning less or are most people living well?Is there more or less poverty and homelessness?Is it easier or harder for people to find homes that they can afford?How has your community changed sociallyIs there less or more crime?Are people less or more willing to volunteer?Are fewer or more people running for public office or working on community boards?How has your community changed environmentally?Has air quality in the urban areas gotten better or worse?Are there more or fewer warnings about eating fish caught in local streams?Has the water quality gotten better or worse?

These are traditional measures of communities. We use numbers to show progress: "Unemployment rose 0.4 percent in January," or "The economy grew 2% last year." However, the traditional numbers only show changes in one part of the community without showing the many links between the community's economy, society and environment. It is as if a community were made of three separate parts -- an economic part