Chapter 1

Concepts of Sustainable

Community DevelopmentIbrahim Sameer (MBA - Specialized in Finance,

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Definition of Sustainability

• What is your understanding about sustainability?

Definition of Sustainability

• Relating to, or being a method of harvesting or

using a resource so that the resource is not

depleted or permanently damaged.

Definition of Sustainability

• The term sustainability first appeared in forestry

studies in Germany in the 1800s.

Definition of Sustainability

• In 1804, German forestry researcher Georg Hartig

described sustainability as “utilizing forests to

the greatest possible extent, but still in a way

that future generations will have as much

benefit as the living generation”

Definition of Sustainability

• The most widely quoted definition of sustainability

comes from the Brundtland Commission of the

United Nations in 1987, which defined

sustainability as meeting “the needs of the

present without compromising the ability of

future generations to meet their own needs.”

Definition of Community

• A community is a unified body of individual with

common interests, a common characteristics or

living in a common location.

Community

• Reflecting on this definition might make you think

that you belong to a number of different

communities, which is probably correct.

Community

• A community could be characterized by age group.

Community

• Ethnicity

Community

• Gender

Community

• Religion

Community

• Location

Community

• And profession.

Community

• As a university student you belong to a

community of students.

Community

• You might also identify yourself as belonging to a

certain racial community. If you attend mosque,

church or temple then you are part of a religious

community.

Community

• Living in a certain neighborhood or area makes

you a member of a geographical community.

Community

• You see communities are sometimes overlapping

and one person can belong to a vast number of

different communities all at once.

Community

• You might be a member of some communities by

default, while others you joined by choice.

Community

• For example, you are a adult, and therefore are a

member of the adult community whether you like it

or not. You might be a member of a soccer

community because you enjoy and choose to

participate in the sport of soccer.

Community

• Sometimes other factors in our lives influence us

to join certain communities as well; for example,

a parent, friend or event.

Community Assets

• Regardless of the community you are a part of or

the reason you joined, every community has

resources that help to fulfill its needs. These

resources are known as community assets.

Community Assets

• Community assets include positive activities,

facilities and services that help to keep its

members healthy.

Community Assets

• Some examples of community assets might be a

meditation garden.

Community Assets

• Fitness center.

Community Assets

• Library.

Community Assets

• Hospital.

Community Assets

• Park

Community Assets

• And playground.

Community Assets

• Which community assets are available to you in

your area?

Definition of Development

• In simple development is a process of

improvement and changes required for better

living and existence.

Definition of Development

• According to Todaro (1981) development is not

purely an economic phenomenon but rather a

multi-dimensional process involving

reorganization and reorientation of entire economic

and social system.

Definition of Development

• According to him development is process of

improving the quality of all human lives with

three equally important aspect:

Definition of Development

• Raising peoples’ living level, i.e., income and

consumption, level of foods, medical services,

education through relevant growth process.

Definition of Development

• Creating conditions conductive to the growth of

peoples’ self esteem through the establishment of

social, political and economic systems and

institutions which promote human dignity and

respect.

Definition of Development

• Increasing peoples’ freedom to choose by

enlarging the range of their choice variables, eg

varieties of goods and services.

Definition of Development

• Alternative interpretation of development:

• Development as Economic Growth

• Economic growth is increase in that country’s

GDP.

• GDP is the economic model that reflect the value

of a country’s output.

What else you want to know?

Questions & Answers

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