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Sustainable development, with its dual emphasis on the most recent concerns—
development and environment—has different implications for several sections of
society, professions, and practitioners in different fields of human endeavor and
survival. It requires an extensive application and interdisciplinary method that
should form the ingredients of comprehensive approaches to sustainable development. Rigorous theories have been advanced, relatively recently, in response to a
growing trend and challenges posed in public policy in economic and environmental development. Economic science recognized nonlinearities in economic growth
and environmental conservation and the critical role of environment and ecology in
the managing of economic systems. It is therefore necessary to examine more reallife solutions to identified and potential problems that affect the welfare of the
human society. However, sustainable development draws much of its significance,
influence, and innovation from its very ambiguity. The concrete challenges of
sustainable development are at least as heterogeneous and complex as the diversity
of human societies and natural ecosystems. A dynamic and evolving idea that can
be adapted to fit very different conditions and contexts across space and time allows
redefining and reinterpreting the salient features of sustainable development. |
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