scholarly journals Sustainable Environmental Policy in Turkey: Climate Change Case

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulmenaf Turan ◽  
Mahmut Güler
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Global Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Concept ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Common Future

Environmental problems have become the main agenda of all countries in the world since 1970’s. Various reports have been written, international meetings have been held and various contracts, agreements and action plans were accepted according to these decisions. Each of these arrangements has reflected to policies of countries. The most important issue of international meetings is that environmental values and natural resources should be used rationally and without extravagancy, should be protected and sustained considering the policy of using rights and benefits of current and future generations. In this sense, the concept of “sustainable development” which aims at enabling economic growth and is defined as an environmentalist view in included in the report called Our Common Future which is prepared by Bruntland in 1987 and presented to United Nations Commission of Environment and Development. Later on, this principle was accepted as the main principle of meeting in RIO Summit of 1992. Turkey which is one of the developing countries did not remain out of this process and determined environmental policies in accordance with decisions in global level. Turkey participated in both meetings mentioned above; carried out preparation studies according to these principles and adapted these principles to legal regulations and policies about environmental and economic development. In this study, first of all historical development of sustainable development concept in global sense will be explained and then it will be evaluated how this principle influences environmental policies in Turkey in analytical way together with examples of practice.

Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Leann Brown
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
Common Future ◽  
New Modes Of Governance

Sustainable development (SD) is defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This definition is articulated in Our Common Future, a political manifesto published in 1987 by the United Nations’ World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). SD promises to resolve in a positive-sum manner the most daunting economic, environmental, political, and social challenges the world is currently facing. However, it has also become a much contested concept, mainly due to the comprehensiveness, ambiguity, and optimism inherent in its underlying assumptions. Ongoing debates within the literature deal with how to define, operationalize, and measure SD; how economic development and environmental protection are conceptualized as mutually supportive; how “nature” is treated in the literature; equity and overconsumption challenges to SD; and the governance, social learning, and normative transformations required to achieve SD. Reaching some consensus on definitions and operationalization of the multiple aspects of SD will lead to standards by which to assess development and environmental policies. Among the most urgent issues that must be addressed in future research are the roles and influence of the relatively new participants in governance, such as intergovernmental/nongovernmental organizations and corporations; the new modes of governance including public-private and private-private partnerships and network governance; and the impacts of implementing compatible and contradictory policies on the various levels and across policy areas.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Asia

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Els van Dongen ◽  
Hong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
New Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Brundtland Commission ◽  
Common Future

What is the added value of investigating the contested concept of “sustainability” in tandem with the geographical marker of “Asia” in today’s world? To answer this question, we need to return to the formulation of the problematique of “sustainability” and “sustainable development” several decades ago. The Our Common Future report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)—also known as the Brundtland Commission—put forward the most commonly recognized and most frequently used definition of “sustainable development” (SD) in 1987.1 Development could be made sustainable, so the report stated, “to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (WCED 1987: 15). The report further proclaimed that there were limits to development, but that improvements in technology and social development could “make way for a new era of economic growth” (ibid.).

Editorial: Forging Advances in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
David Grierson ◽  
Ashraf M. Salama
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Intergenerational Equity ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development

Sustainability has been an important topic in many disciplines over two decades, and its urgency is rising. At the same time, a conceptual understanding of sustainability remains rather vague, posing a challenge for research in this area. Nevertheless the term ‘sustainability’ is increasingly used in the context of ecological, economic, and social studies. In green economics it is often used interchangeably with the term ‘sustainable development’, defined by the World commission on environment and development in 1987 as, “development which meets he needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” this underlines sustainability’s ethical dimension where a normative view implies treating sustainability as a form of intergenerational equity and fairness. The question of intergenerational equity constitutes a growing concern, and our obligation to future generations requires us to look beyond short-term public policy preoccupations to anticipate building a better future for all.

scholarly journals Environment And Sustainable Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Shalini Singh ◽  
Amit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The One ◽  
Rate Of Consumption

With the dawn of the 21st century, we are confronted with two conflicting scenarios for the future of man kind. On the one hand, there are possibilities of a bright future with press button living, space shuttles, information technology, genetic engineering and such other advances in science and technology. On the other hand, a grim scenario is looming large with burgeoning population starved of resources and choked by pollution. Faced with such crucial situation wherein we stand at the crossroads in choosing between environment and development we feel the need of ‘Sustainable Development’. The concept of sustainable development means that the rate of consumption or use of natural resources should approximate the rate at which these resources can be substituted or replaced. It further requires that a nation or society is able to satisfy its requirements- social, economic or others without jeopardising the interest of future generations. The paper broadly tries to outline the basic concept of sustainable development, the world-wide activities initiated to deal with environmental problems and the major strategies that can be adopted by nations for sustainable development.

scholarly journals Optimization of air chamber in solar air collector

2020 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 04004
Author(s):  
Orest Pakholiuk ◽  
Iryna Zadorozhnikova ◽  
Serhii Uzhehov ◽  
Oleksandr Chapyuk ◽  
Ruslan Pasichnyk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
International Union ◽  
World Conservation ◽  
Air Chamber ◽  
Solar Air Collector ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development

Recently, environmental problems have become more acute. In 1980, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) prepared the World Conservation Strategy. This document interpreted the term “sustainable development” as an inseparable link between social development and nature conservation. And already in 1992, after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the concept of sustainable development gained a leading status. The conference materials determined that sustainable development is a development of a society that meets the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Therefore, being aware of the need for energy conservation, there is increasing emphasis on the use of solar energy throughout the world to generate electricity and heat.

Greening the Constitution. The principle of sustainable development anchored in the Belgian Constitution

elni Review ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Peter de Smedt ◽  
Hendrik Schoukens ◽  
Tania Van Laer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Level ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Common Future

The concept of sustainable development is getting settled well within the framework of environmental law. The current meaning of this concept was defined by the report Our Common Future (1987) of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED): "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Since the publication of the Bundtlandreport in 1987, the concept of sustainable development can no longer be thought away from the political scene. Especially since the Conference of Rio in 1992 the concept has been used more often in juridical texts, at international as well as at European level. Also in the Belgian legal order, the concept of sustainable development has found its way into legislation at federal as well as at regional level step-by-step. As in international documents and treaties, the concept is mostly formulated as a policy goal. After examining the anchoring of sustainable development in the Belgian Constitution the authors of this article discuss the concept's juridical enforceability and subsequently analyse the consequences of this qualification for the application in the jurisprudence. The article ends with some concluding remarks.

scholarly journals A NEW PARADIGM OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DIMENSIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Liene Amantova-Salmane
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Society ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Sustainability Criteria ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development

Sustainable development has become an universal phrase and the area of many policy initiatives, especially those regarding environmental organizations. The revision of the dimensions of sustainable development gives vital support to develop and implement indicators for them. The dimensions of sustainable development are inseparable and mutually reinforcing. Sustainable development actions depend on complexity and working with different interests of environment and development. It is impossible to predict what needs future generations will have. The obligation of the current generation is both to use and protect the world resources in ways that meet human development opportunities more justifiably today, but which do not exclude choices for such actions tomorrow. The aim of the research is to analyse the dimensions of sustainable development. More deeply, the research tasks are to outline the hierarchical organization of sustainable development criteria and indicators and to create a new paradigm of sustainable development dimensions. The methods of research are monographic, quantitative, deductive, and inductive. The key result: a new paradigm of sustainable development dimensions is created. Sustainable development is a concept, possibly surrounding closely every aspect of human society. The meaning of the dimensions of sustainable development is all the time in progress. There is a new approach to the dimensions given in the research. Sustainability could be understood better in terms of “here and now”, “later” and “elsewhere”. The existence of sustainability criteria guarantees sustainability in the long perspective. It can be suggested that the sustainability criteria analysis and their practical use could be further developed. 

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