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The report spells out its conception more fully as follows: Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: (1) the concept of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and (2) the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.
A New Professional Ethics for Sustainable Prosperity
Melissa Lane
You can have both: pressure on the state to perform its duties towards citizens, and good NGO activity. But that calls for a sense of proportion. About development. About people’s entitlements. About the real reforms this country needs. Reforms to do with land, water and forest resources. With education, health, nutrition and employment.
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
P Sainath
As I shall use it, then, the term Bstructural injustice^ refers to the sum total of oppressions, and the ways in which they interact with and compound one another, taken holistically. And I shall take for granted that __the basic intersectionality thesis is correct: if one cares about some pressing social problem, a sufficiently deep enough understanding of that problem will eventually require that one cares about structural injustice as a whole.__
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
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