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Sustainable Development and Biodiversity: A discourse of contemporary development approach and practices

Abstract: In sense, over the last two and half decades ‘sustainable development’ has mature from a phrase expressing anxiety for social and environmental evils to a global obsession. The notion supposedly offers cures for the many and assorted harms that bothering contemporary society, and that the reason it engages an integrated approach, the sustainable development trend has resulted much-needed partnership connecting experts from different environments, to work on the difficult dilemmas concerned in the exchanges linking society and environment( FRAZIER, J. G.: 1997 ). Consequently, the term is rarely defined, and, being elegant and institutionalized, the ‘sustainability movement’ now straights the method much science and policy for natural protection and development are considered, implemented and evaluated. Occult, but essential, in virtually all conversations of sustainable development is the maxim of constant development. On the other hand in maximum cases, as a substitute of ...

Bangladesh and Our Politics

The last about four decades we got freedom as a new country but our people are not still get freedom. We know very well in our political parties mainly two party totally following the western hegemony regime when they got power as well as they think about its their family asset nothing else. Its also very unfortunate that our civil society also biased by the political parties too. Present situation is too difficult because all political parties are very self centered not general people centered thats very much problematic for future as well as current over all development. In every sector are full in corruption... (Cont')

Sustainability and Our Presence

Sustainability is a very large concept because is has multidimensional aspect. In generally we hope only sustainable growth in our economic aspect, but last f ifteen years after its ascent to prominence, “sustainable development” remains the most powerful mobilizing ideal in the field of applied international development. The success of the sustainability ideal—at least measured by its continued prominence in development discourse—is due especially to its unifying promise, the way it seems to transcend ideological battles of the past. This became most clear in the 1990s, when, under the mantle of sustainability, most international development agencies sought to incorporate environmental considerations more centrally in their work and conservation organizations increasingly acknowledged the importance of development to meeting environmental goals. World Bank conferences on values and traditional cultural institutions in development (Davis and Ebbe 1995; Serageldin and Barrett 1996), an...