Sustainable Development: A Literature Review

This literature review explores the concept of sustainable development and its ability to achieve the needs of the current population without interfering with the capacity of future generations. It covers various perspectives on sustainable development, including social learning, green design, smart manufacturing, and the need for ecological laws.

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Keen, M., Brown, V.A.
and Dyball, R. eds.,
2005. Social learning in
environmental
management: towards a
sustainable future.
Routledge.
Keen, Brown ad Dyball postulate that
key intent of social leaning in
environmental management is to
investigate and intensify different
ways for collective learning required to
aid governments, communities, experts
and individual on how to work
together to achieve broader ecological
and social sustainability.
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Lozano, R., Ciliz, N.,
Ramos, T.B., Blok, V.,
Caeiro, S., van Hoof, B.
According to Lozano et al. states that so
as to realise the determined target of
sustainable development it demand the
involvement of production-consumption
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and Huisingh, D., 2015.
Bridges for a more
sustainable future: joining
Environmental
Management for
Sustainable Universities
(EMSU) and the
European Roundtable for
Sustainable Consumption
and Production (ERSCP)
conferences. Journal of
Cleaner Production, 106,
pp.1-2.
systems.
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Blok, V., Long, T.B.,
Gaziulusoy, A.I., Ciliz,
N., Lozano, R., Huisingh,
D., Csutora, M. and Boks,
C., 2015. From best
practices to bridges for a
more sustainable future:
advances and challenges
in the transition to global
sustainable production
and consumption:
Introduction to the
ERSCP stream of the
Blok et al. claims that going green is the
way of life and as a result this process has
strongly influenced all things starting from
consumers diets up to the car that they
drive. Consequently, the process has led to
green design which is tasked with
safeguarding humans, water, air, earth and
wildlife by living in an eco-friendly
manner.
Journal

Special volume. Journal
of Cleaner
Production, 108, pp.19-
30.
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Kang, H.S., Lee, J.Y.,
Choi, S., Kim, H., Park,
J.H., Son, J.Y., Kim, B.H.
and Do Noh, S., 2016.
Smart manufacturing:
Past research, present
findings, and future
directions. International
Journal of Precision
Engineering and
Manufacturing-Green
Technology, 3(1), pp.111-
128.
Kang et al. argue that smart
manufacturing (SM) is a collection of
manufacturing systems which use
connected data, communication and
information technologies to control the
manufacturing operations.
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Charter, M. and Tischner,
U. eds., 2017. Sustainable
solutions: developing
products and services for
the future. Routledge.
In order to advocate for sustainable
development Charter and Tischner
note that there is need to toughen
ecological laws. Accordingly, there is
need for heightened awareness among
all stakeholders process of product
development in the entire product life-
cycle.
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Section 3:

Introduction
Sustainable development is a practice that is aimed at realising human development targets
and at the same time sustaining the capacity of natural systems. Accordingly, describe
sustainable development as a practice that has the ability to achieve the need of the current
population without interfering with the capacity of the upcoming generations.
Bibliography
Blok, V., Long, T.B., Gaziulusoy, A.I., Ciliz, N., Lozano, R., Huisingh, D., Csutora, M. and
Boks, C., 2015. From best practices to bridges for a more sustainable future: advances and
challenges in the transition to global sustainable production and consumption: Introduction to
the ERSCP stream of the Special volume. Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, pp.19-30.
Charter, M. and Tischner, U. eds., 2017. Sustainable solutions: developing products and
services for the future. Routledge.
Kang, H.S., Lee, J.Y., Choi, S., Kim, H., Park, J.H., Son, J.Y., Kim, B.H. and Do Noh, S.,
2016. Smart manufacturing: Past research, present findings, and future
directions. International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green
Technology, 3(1), pp.111-128.

Keen, M., Brown, V.A. and Dyball, R. eds., 2005. Social learning in environmental
management: towards a sustainable future. Routledge.
Lozano, R., Ciliz, N., Ramos, T.B., Blok, V., Caeiro, S., van Hoof, B. and Huisingh, D.,
2015. Bridges for a more sustainable future: joining Environmental Management for
Sustainable Universities (EMSU) and the European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption
and Production (ERSCP) conferences. Journal of Cleaner Production, 106, pp.1-2.