Sustainable Development: the Logical Approach, Implementation Tools, Hurdles and the Indian Endeavor

In the last half of the twentieth century peace, freedom, development, and environment have emerged as four key aspirations of the world's people. The conflict between the environment and development has been acknowledged and reaffirmed in various conferences and summits. Sustainable development is thus a much desired goal of the world community at present. The concept involves social, economic, environmental and institutional dimensions. The approaches involved are poverty eradication, countering the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, protection and management of the natural resource base, emphasis on regional cooperation, health and science&technology. Equitable allocation of finance, trade, technology, energy security and human resource between developing and developed world are effective tools for implementation of sustainable development activities. The first and the third world need to work as one so that the human progress made in 20th century does not mar the future and development of our next generation.