Learning Objectives:

To formulate a defintion of sustainable developmentTo explain why different people may have different viewpoints on the defintion of sustainable development.

Extension questions

a. Identify the main causes of the collapse in food production and agricultural output predicted by the club of Rome in their 1999 forecast.

b. Suggest technological breakthroughs that would make these forecasts mistaken.

The official UN/ Bruntland definition:

What is meant by social, economic and environmental development?

What is meant by social, economic and environmental development?

How may trying to achieve economic development affect environmental development?

Our evaluation…..What is good and bad about this defintion?