Sustainable development x Economic development

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Nathália Leal
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Kersting, Cristiano, Rosa, Gilvan, Fruet, Lumar, Barcellos, Afonso Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/17768
• topic: Learning policy; Sustainability; Environmental balance; Políticas; Sustentabilidade; Equilíbrio ambiental

Sustainable development is the rational use of natural resources for the welfare, ensuring the economic growth needed to meet our demands and the needs of future generations. In order to identify the conceptual origins and some practices aimed at sustainability developed the study. Natural resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and that they take into account their possible exhaustion. With this threat, alternatives are sought for the socio-economic development is sustainable. A strong social policy is still the main need for the achievement of sustainable development, especially in emerging countries like Brazil. Environmental issues related to the use of pesticides, excessive deforestation, hand slave and child labor are some of the factors that public policies attempt to inhibit, but continues to act slowly and ineffectively in most states. So there is an emerging change of social paradigms, where it is necessary to realize values that drive our economic development and our relationship with the environment. The use of sustainability becomes the great social challenge of the coming decades.