Literature Review on Planetary Boundaries

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Ecology and Sustainability

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Contents
Assignment 2: What is Sustainability Development?..................................................................................3
Assignment 3: a Literature review on Planetary Boundaries.......................................................................9
Assignment 4: Case study: A Case Study on the Sustainable Development Indicators of Water Resources
in Taiwan...................................................................................................................................................17

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Assignment 2: What is Sustainability Development?
Introduction
Sustainability development is an expansion that helps in gathering the requirement of today,
exclusive of negotiating the capability of further generations to assemble their desires. The
notion of sustainable development can be understood in a number of ways, but at its core is a
strategy to improvement that demonstrates to balance various and frequently challenging,
requires against an consciousness of the social, economic boundaries and environmental issue
that the organization face as a society. Sustainable development is handling a subtle balance
between the human desires to get better lifestyles and feeling of well-being on one hand, and
protecting natural resources and ecosystem, on which the current population and future
generation depend. By taking consideration of above discussion, it can be stated that the right
description of Sustainable development is the approach that has a main focus on gathering the
requirements of the present without conciliating aptitude of further generations to meet their
needs. There are believed of some people that the notion of sustainable development must
involve preserving the environment for other species along for people.
Context Setting – Problem Statement
For most of the last couple of 100 years, the environment has been mainly observed as external
to humanity, with little specific areas. Environmental problems were seen majorly as local. On
the huge, the bonding between people and the environment was visualized as a triumph of
humanity over nature. The notion of sustainable expansion is the result of developing an
awareness of the worldwide associations between increasing environmental issues and socio-
economic issues to do with inequality and poverty. It firmly connects with issues of

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environmental and socio-economic. The problems related to the environment threat to the health
and lives of people (Hopwood, Mellor and O'Brien, 2005). The questions arise by sustainable
development regarding the post-war claim, that controls mainstream economic policy, that the
worldwide prosperity can be attained by developed global trade and industry. Along with with
that the lack of clarity regarding the concept of sustainability comprises a number of issues for
researchers as it can hamper handling the procedure of the concept, develop contradictory
discourses on the subject, and can influence the validity of the studies.
Question: what is the meaning of sustainable development as a set of social environmental
criteria or qualities in human action?
Explore the various understandings or development of the notion of sustainable
development
According to Mebratu, (1998), sustainability is the term that helps entities to make the aim for
further growth. There are so many scholars and professionals claim that a system is sustainable
since it has a number of aims. However, in such case, an ordinary feature is their suggestion to
social, environmental and economic aims that definite human actions intended to reach. For a
specific reason, sustainability is considered as an idealization of the bonding between society and
nature inside systems of references. It was apparent from these statements that sustainability is
related to the human actions that directly derive from determined purposes. For such reason, it
shall be noted that this utilization shows a teleological sense of the notion of sustainability.
According to Hopwood, Mellor and O'Brien, (2005), sustainable development is confusing
concept because it has different interpretations and for getting an effective knowledge regarding
the same, it is vital to take a note of sense with mapping methodology on the basis of combining

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environmental and socioeconomic issues. In his broadly utilized arrangement of natural
perspectives, from solid ecocentric to solid technocentric, called attention to that these frequently
join with financial perspectives so that eccentric tend towards social and monetary value and
redistribution while technocentrics are bound to help the monetary and political the present state
of affairs. Much of the time the connecting of natural and social concerns depends on an ethical
or thoughtful standpoint as opposed to seeing the two as tangibly and socially related and
indivisible. Others have additionally sketched out helpful methods for dissecting natural
concerns; in any case, there has been less effort in mapping the plentiful point of view on
reasonable improvement. To provide a perspective on the patterns inside the sustainable
development, unique mapping can be extended by thinking about ecological and financial
perspectives on two separate axes (Salas‐Zapata and Ortiz‐Muñoz, 2019).
On the other hand, there are many people that claim that sustainable development confronts the
enhanced integration of the globe in an industrialist economy controlled by multinationals. The
ambiguity permits governments and business to be in the context of sustainability without any
basic confronts to their present course. By taking consideration of Brundtland’s support for
instant development, it allows business and government to be in favour of sustainability without
any basic confronts to their present course. Reformers perceive that the legislature has a key job
in moving towards maintainable improvement as a business will require pushing, and now and
again controlling, assessments and endowments changing, focusing of research and scattering of
data. Most reformers additionally accept that there will be a change of the political framework to
expand the majority rules system and interest (Murray and King, 2012).

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Source: (Hopwood, Mellor and O'Brien, 2005).
Those who receive a transformative loom that grabs both ecological and social investigations
spread range of a variety of viewpoint although all share the sight that the increasing
emergencies in the world and society are unified and that the social and ecological frameworks
chance breakdown on the off chance that extreme change does not happen. A few, for example,
grassroots natural equity and indigenous ecological developments, may not make the most of a
similar vocabulary of economic improvement as utilized in official and scholastic circles yet are
tending to the issues of how to live inside the earth without extraordinary disparity or destitution.
The point of view of transformations towards the issues is different from other as they find out
the root cause of problems that help out them to figure out the reason behind raising the issue.
Conclusion
It can be concluded from the above discussion that the point of view of many researchers on
sustainability development is different but all researchers of sustainable development agree for
demanding the change in the society, although there is a number of debates as to the
characteristics of sustainable development, the amendments necessary and the actors for these