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 Enforcement of Environment Conservation Act The Environment act was passed in year
1986. It was passed to check the detoriated quality of the environment.
 Afforestation Campaign Extensive afforestation campaign should be launched to protect
environment.
 Water Management There should be means which can harvest the rain water in order to
use it in the areas where there is scarcity of water, so that clean drinking water can be
provided to the rural people.
 Management of Solid Waste Management of solid waste is very essential. It should be
treated chemically. Rural garbage should be converted into compost.

Meaning, Features, Needs and Strategies for Sustainable Development
According to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED),
sustainable development can be defined as “development strategy that meets the need of present
generation without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs.”

Edward Barbier, a renowned personality had also given the definition of sustainable
development Sustainable development is one which is directly concerned with increasing the
material standards of living of the poor at grass root level.

In specific term, sustainable development aims at decreasing the absolute poverty of the poor by
providing lasting and securing livelihoods that minimise resource depletion, environmental
degradation, cultural disruption and social instability.

The Brudtland Commission emphasises on protecting the future generation. A moral obligation
to hand over the planet Earth in good order to the future generation, i. e., the present generation
should bequeath a better environment to the future generation.

The present generation can promote development that enhances the natural and built
environment in the way, that are compatible with

 conservation of natural as us.
 preservation of the regenerative capacity of the worlds natural ecological system.
 avoiding the imposition of added costs or risks on future generation.

Features of Sustainable Development

 Sustained rise in real per capital income and economic welfare.
 Rational use of natural resources.
 No reduction in the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
 Check on pollution.

A Way to Sustainable Development
According to Herman Dalay, a leading environmental economist, the main needs of sustainable
development are