Robert Hoegerle

How can we make development more sustainable? Robert Hoegerle

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,0, Ritsumeikan University (Graduate School of International Relations), course: International Development and Aid, language: English, abstract: One could wonder what to say bad about development and aid or even against sustainable development. Over the past few years, sustainable development has emerged as the latest catchphrase. Non-governmental as well as governmental organizations agree talking about this term, because it is one of those magical fields in which hardly something can go wrong. This attitude lead to a blurring and forgetting of what sustainable development truly is. The purpose of this essay will be to re-elaborate and define the terminus "sustainable" in context to development followed and supported by a historical approach on the pre-Agenda 21 framework. Therefore the results will be clarify by a case-study. Upon these pillars the conclusion will point out how development can be made more sustainable in future or if it has become already more sustainable.