Towards Building Sustainable Development in Asia - Social Work Approach
Published: 2017
Author(s) Name: Rajendra Baikady, Channaveer R. M. |
Author(s) Affiliation: Department of Social Work, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, India.
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Abstract
The term sustainable development refers to the developmental
activity undertaken to achieve the present generation needs
without compromising with the needs of up-coming generation.
Sustainable development ensures the well-being of individual
by integrating social development, economic growth, and
environmental conservation and protection. The over population,
wide spread inequality, acute poverty, a great shortage of
safe drinking water, limitless consumption of energy, endless
deforestation is the great challenges before the idea of sustainable
development. The present paper is an evidence based paper
based on the secondary data collected from research journals,
books, magazines and concerned websites. The aim of the paper
is to focus on the strategies for sustainable development and the
social work approach for achieving the sustainable development in
the present and the future society. Through devising the strategies
for sustainable development this paper tries to build an interrelationship
between the present and the future generation, to
attain the sustainable development following probable strategies
can be useful-giving importance to input efficient technology, using
environmental friendly source of energy, promoting more and
more renewable source of energy, developing organic farming,
promoting waste recycling, more than all this taking an pledge of
conserving the natural resources for the younger generations of
tomorrows world.
Keywords: Sustainable Development, Social Work, Poverty, Inequality, Human Rights
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