SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sustainable development is being defined, and it clusters these definitions into 3 broad categories: status quo, reform, and transformation. Of these 3 categories I choose the reform model for the best definition of sustainable development. The reason that I chose this model is because it takes into account the people and economy. They also accept that there are mounting problems within society, but do not consider ecological and social system as an impending collapse. Something that I agree with is the acceptance of large shifts in policy and lifestyle and that government plays a key role towards sustainable development. These are some points that interested me when I reviewed this concept. The things that I didn’t agree with in other definitions where the fact that in status quo takes on too much a light role within sustainable development, I believe transformation tries to make too much of a change reform takes major ideas from both definitions.