A Review of Globalisation and Sustainability Development Dynamics

This report provides a comprehensive review of the key literature concerning the interplay between globalisation and sustainable development. Drawing on several academic sources, the report examines how globalisation and sustainability are presented, highlighting both the positive and negative aspects of their relationship. It outlines the core synergies and tensions that exist between the discourses of globalisation and sustainable development, particularly focusing on the economic, social, and environmental implications. The analysis explores how globalisation impacts sustainability across various dimensions, including consumption patterns, resource management, and global environmental concerns. The review emphasizes the need for a balanced approach that considers the long-term implications of current practices and promotes sustainable practices, with an understanding of the interconnectedness of environmental and social justice issues.

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Globalisation and its adverse effects have begun affecting the community to a great
extent. Globalisation is an economic phenomenon, and sustainability development of a nation
involves the effective socio-economic standard of living without depletion of the natural
resources. The human societies are on the verge of collapse with the unsustainability in
concern. Sustainability development requires the acknowledgement of the traditional origin
of the ecological dysfunction. According to Yeung (2002),the globalisation and its nature
along with the global economic change there has been an effect over the sustainability
development of the nations and this has been a recent topic of research. In the article by
Yeung, (2002),globalisation is described as a phenomenon that involves over spatialization of
social relations. He says that because of the spatial tendencies, there is no independent
existence of globalization apart from the social, economic, political and technological forces
and and thus cannot be organised to explain empirical outcomes in the absence of these
forces.
According to Steve Connelly (2007), sustainability development is considered to be
everything and nothing and this is a weakened policy goal since in the promotion of are
environmental sustainability, is hampered due to the tensions between globalisation and
sustainability development. The author in his paper examines the dominant responses to the
ambiguities of sustainability development and introduces the contrasting idea of what affects
the sustainability. Elliot (2013),says that sustainability development is primarily about
building friendly relations with the environmental natural resources over which the standards
of living of the society depends. On the other hand, according to Yapa (1993) the Third
World people donot have the basis means of sustenance. Even after the four decades of
properly planned economic improvement.

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Globalisation and the sustainable development are two different ideas who are in
constant conflicts with one another. In case of globalisation, the economic, social and the
environmental processes have impact beyond the local spatial scale. Also in the context of
sustainability development, there needs to be a wider attention to the intergenerational
implications and the trends of the present generation. Globalisation has resulted in the
emergence of a policy focus area of the sustainability development. There is always a
tendency to identify the ways in which globalization processes might be made more
compatible and connected with the normative goals of development and sustainability.
According to Elliott (2013),sustainability development is the development that is maintained
over the time. The relation between the environment and the human subject id termed as
sustainable development. However he also says that there is considerable amount of
uncertainty and contestation regarding the promotion of sustainable change and also
regarding the impacts of policies and mechanisms that are implemented towards sustainable
development. Sustainable development involves a number of frameworks out of which there
are three pillars which work towards the effective communication between the community
and their own standards of living. The three pillars that hold together the sustainability of the
community are the economy, the environment and the society. Due to the modernisation, the
process of globalisation involves a lot number of changes, where the countries of the world
are seen to be interconnected more globally but there also happened sustainable development
changes in respect to the economic, social and political spheres. Elliott also says that the
globalisation has created a new dimension of the challenges of the changes in the
consumption and the production patterns and also management of the natural resources for
the social as well as economic development of the nations. The global environment on a
holistic basis, does suffer a lot. The rapid integration regarding the markets and the transfer
ofcapitals, there is significant increase in the flow of money all across the world. This has

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eventually led to the opportunity of new challenges for the recreation of sustainable
development.
According to Byrne and Glover (2002), globalisation and sustainability development
have emerged as the key discourses for the evaluation of the social and the economic as well
as the environmental prospects. Bothe the concepts do share a common emphasis on the
development and the efficiency as the tools of sustainability. However these two concepts are
studied as polar opposites. The article aims to prepare a document on the basis of the
positions of the individual concepts and to consider areas of conflict and synergy between the
agendas of globalization and sustainable development. It can be found that it is not true that
the globalisation and sustainability development are two opposites but they have many things
in common in relation to the business and the acceptance of the market relations in the world.
Globalisation demands the requirement for an environmental regulation and most promoters
of sustainable development accept the essential rationale of the expanding global economy.
In this sense, globalization and sustainable development have evolved as two sides of a
common vision of the future. According to the Keck and Sikkink, (1999), the main aim of the
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development involve the promotion of the
sustainable development with the relation to the ecological as well as the economic health of
the nation. However through the goal of the ecological justice, the UNCED is working on the
achievement of sustainability development.
As stated by Hopwood, Mellor and Brien, (2005),sustainability development can be
defined in a lot number of ways.. However if broadly talked about, the concept of
sustainability development includes the attempt to combine growing concerns about a wide
range of socio- economic as well as environmental issues. Sustainability development has the
sufficient potential to address the fundamental challenges for the humanity and also to
address the future risks. Sustainability development thus includes concentration on the

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sustainable livelihood and the individual well being. Rather than long tern environmental
sustainability, that demands a strong focus on the principles of the sustainable development,
there should be a link with the human equity. The issue of sustainable development linked
with the impacts of globalisation is one of the major problems in most of the world nations
and the agenda is implementation of world policy to ensure the common link between the
environment and humanity. There should be no ignorance of the environment since the
humans live within the environment and depend on it for the survival and well being
(Glassman, 2001). There is a great need for the fundamental change in the human life and the
environment and a common linkage between the power structures that would exploit both the
plant as well as human resource. There should be a necessary transformation that would
necessary to reduce this exploitation and raise the issues to the media as well as link the
researchers. There must be a common connection between the environmental degradation and
the human exploitation. So that there is an encouragement in the formation of association
between the environmental movements and that of the social justice.

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