Sustainable Development And Environmental Analysis

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Define the concept sustainable development and discuss a qualitatively different triple bottom line approach advocated by the underlining drivers for sustainable development Sustainable development is the development that ensures that the needs for present generations are satisfied without affecting the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs too (Brundtland Commission, 1987). The main aim of sustainable development is to control the current generations to preserve resources or use the available environment while saving it for the future generations, in simple terms current generations should use the environment responsible. Blowers (2013) mentioned that the environmental protection is the critical part of sustainable development …show more content…

Companies or businesses extract and process resources in pursuit of profit. Businesses are involved in markets that trigger resource competition (Elkington, 2004). High interest of profit causes the increase in resource consumption from the planet. Over consumption of resources for instance overharvesting and other forms of cropland damaging can cause loss of production in the environment. For an environment to rehabilitate it productivity it will require a lot of nutrients restoration in the soil, these nutrients like fertilizers etc. in return contribute to climate change (Robert, 2000). Government cannot be separated from this economic aspect under resource consumption since government somewhere somehow contribute or have a say to companies located in it range of governance. At the earth summit of 1992, it was proposed that there should be a cooperation between business and the environmental organization due to a suggestion that recent production of goods was unsustainable (Redclift, 2005). Numerous developing and also existing companies are forced to adopt the concept of triple bottom line on their functioning (Elkington, …show more content…

Looking at short food supply chains (SFSCs) as drivers of sustainable development. SFSCs are defined as the alternative broad range food chains that specializes in practice of commercial farming, such as farm shop. SFSCs are to referred to as short because of it simple flow from producers to consumers for example like direct internet sales (Galli and Brunori, 2013). SFSCs are very diverse so it diversity increases the ability of consumers to have different choice of food, in this case the relationship between producer and customer is extended (Renting et al., 2012). Short food chain supply is suggested by most studies to be the simple movement of food from producers to consumers that contribute to sustainable development. According to Galli and Brunori (2013) short food supply chains are drivers and food security to increase sustainable

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