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Ghana and Sustainable Development

Ghana and Sustainable Development

by The Daily Eye Team February 24 2014, 10:28 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 40 secs

Restoring the Present, Securing the Future.

What is sustainable development?

The concept is admittedly an admission that development is much more than economic growth and that the pursuit of economic growth and expansion alone cannot sustain both the present and future generations. The concept is also an admission of the imbalance in attention the environment and other key sectors have received in the quest to achieve economic development. The widely accepted definition of the term is that carried by the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) chaired by Ms. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway. Their report states that “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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