How can we make development more sustainable?

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,0, Ritsumeikan University (Graduate School of International Relations), course: International Development and Aid, language: English, abstract: One could wonder what to say bad about development and aid or even against

sustainable development. Over the past few years, sustainable development has

emerged as the latest catchphrase. Non-governmental as well as governmental

organizations agree talking about this term, because it is one of those magical fields

in which hardly something can go wrong.

This attitude lead to a blurring and forgetting of what sustainable development truly

is.

The purpose of this essay will be to re-elaborate and define the terminus

¿sustainable¿ in context to development followed and supported by a historical

approach on the pre-Agenda 21 framework.

Therefore the results will be clarify by a case-study.

Upon these pillars the conclusion will point out how development can be made more

sustainable in future or if it has become already more sustainable.