Notions about development cluster and overlap around the key attempt to describe and define human effort to gainfully control the environment. Human capabilities, exertion of creative knowledge and application of skills to attain greater freedom and enjoy higher level of wellbeing count in the notions of development. The attempt to control the environment is/can be the former development styles, processes and their product are now inappropriate and incapable of coping with long term human demands. Essentially therefore, sustainable development has become the enigma our common future Humanity is fast losing control of the environment. The forces of production are far exerting very great pressure on the environment. Moral ignorance can make people live as environmental patients. Our relationship to the environment has a moral suasion at least to the extent of using environmental resources as a means to an end. Consequently, users of living and finite resources of the environment require a pre-emptive understanding of how ethical considerations can underpin environmental resource utilization.
The way people think determine the things they do. The ecological imperative of our time requires attitude change such as would lead humanity back to sustainable living. Sustainable living can be attained when the state of the environment s considered first in all human activity. The whole essence of sustainability dovetails into ensuring the future wellbeing of humanity.Which requires societies and governments manage the relationship between human beings and the natural world? This course seeks to provide a toolset for describing, discussing and analyzing the issues that undergird environmental governance and sustainable development.
- Teacher: Shimelis K