Sustainable_Development_In_The_Environment

Sustainable Development In The Environment Since 1962, with the publishing of the seminal work "Silent Spring," the assumption that the environment had an infinite capacity to absorb pollutants was first shattered. The book brought together research on toxicology, ecology and epidemology to suggest that agricultural pesticides were building to catastrophic levels, and that this was linked to damage to animal species and to human health. It served as a turning point in our understanding of the interconnections between the environment, economy and social well-being. Concerns about the environment and development are certainly not new. However, more recently the ongoing global dialogue has formed around the strategies needed to address the interrelated challenges of building healthy societies, economies, and environments. This dialogue has its roots in the gradual merging of the environmental movement and the post-World War II international development community. Over the past fifty-five years, blind optimism about the creation of a modern technological utopia has been replaced by a more realistic understanding of the forces contributing to the world's problems. # What is Sustainable Development' The idea of "sustainability" as we know it emerged in a series of meetings and reports during the 1970s and 1980s. Sustainable development means different things to different people, development, environment, sustainable, natural, environmental, problems, world, ozone, international, been, resources, sustainability, people, caused, society, rio, human, future, first, earth, around, about, years, understanding, since, report, progress, new, great, change, two, time, term