Poco conocidos hechos sobre Sustainable living and self development.
Poco conocidos hechos sobre Sustainable living and self development.
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Since the publication of the influential report, Our Common Future (The World Commission on Environment and Development. Oxford University Press, 1987), the concept of sustainable development has undergone considerable changes, with scholars adding various social and ecological dimensions. It underscores that genuine sustainable development necessitates the preservation and management of environmental resources, but also requires profound social, cultural, and institutional transformation. This chapter proposes five principles and reconceptualization of ‘sustainable development’ and concludes that the diligent implementation of these principles, underpinned by political commitment, could guide nation-states toward the realization of sustainable development goals, and foster an eco-civilization grounded in social justice and environmental sustainability.
This program involves mapping of rural households and land holdings via using technologies like drones (Hebbar, 2020)
Source From environmental conservation to socio-economic reforms, the Chizami village situated in Nagaland’s Phek district has a decade-long history of inspiring transformation. This was made possible thanks to the unique Chizami model of development that empowered marginalised women from the Naga society to be the changemakers. Led by Monisha Behal, a women’s rights activist and founder of North East Network (NEN), back in 1994, the collective of Naga women was created to improve health and sanitation facilities in the village.
The manufacturing industry is highly diversified in India. The majority of industrial workers are engaged in small‐scale handicraft enterprises and about 30% of the industrial workers depend on daily wages.
Nestled amid the mountainous terrain of Himachal Pradesh, this small village called Pelo Bhalta is a canon for waste management in rural India. Almost 50 km away from Shimla, Borra Bhalta is using a unique method to transform plastic waste into bricks, bases and interlocking tiles.
Enveloped within pristine terrace farms, this self-sustaining village of Nagaland is home to a 700-year-old Angami settlement and is considered to be India’s first green village.
But that is not the spirit of what Naess is saying. His emphasis upon the value of self-love at the start of the essay underlines this. Instead, perhaps there is the possibility of reciprocity between human and more-than-human. This is the goal and ideal with which the Ecological Self Development essay concludes: ‘we are the first kind of living beings we know of which have the potentialities of living in community with all other living beings. It is our hope that all those potentialities will be realized.’
Initiated by the village Panchayat, this project has not only helped the community deal with their waste but also aided in adopting sustainable construction practices. All the plastic and polythene collected from the district is recycled and used for various construction projects across the Panchayats.
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The family and the school are perhaps the two most important microsystems that impact a child’s psycho-social development.
The parents are the most important part of a person’s microsystem. A child’s bond with family is the first bond, and is hugely influential in developing early values and belief systems.
About 100 km away from Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s Punsari village has the foráneo of a city with a heart of a humble village. This was pointed pasado by a former sarpanch Himanshu Patel who transformed the village into an ‘Adarsh Gram’ after taking charge in 2006.
Located in West Medinipur district of West Bengal, Dobisha village is a model green village. But only a few years ago, it had zero access to electricity. From that situation to powering all its 50 households with solar energy, the village has come a long way in embracing renewable energy that is also used to power irrigation pumps, computers in the community learning centre, street lights and the clean drinking water ATM.
This decision in conjunction with many water conservation efforts helped raise the groundwater levels and ensured prosperity. With almost 300 open wells brimming with water, the village is home to 60 millionaires and the highest per capita income in the country, all reflective of the prosperity they have managed to achieve.