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D EVELOPMENT OF R ESOURCES Sustainable development Resources are vital for human survival as well as for maintaining the quality of life. It was Sustainable economic development means believed t...

D EVELOPMENT OF R ESOURCES Sustainable development Resources are vital for human survival as well as for maintaining the quality of life. It was Sustainable economic development means believed that resources are free gifts of nature. ‘development should take place without As a result, human beings used them damaging the environment, and development indiscriminately and this has led to the in the present should not compromise with the following major problems. needs of the future generations.’ Depletion of resources for satisfying the greed of a few individuals. Accumulation of resources in few hands, which, Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, 1992 in turn, divided the society into two segments In June 1992, more than 100 heads of states i.e. haves and have nots or rich and poor. met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, for the first Indiscriminate exploitation of resources has International Earth Summit. The Summit was led to global ecological crises such as, global convened for addressing urgent problems of warming, ozone layer depletion, environmental environmental protection and socio- pollution and land degradation. economic development at the global level. The assembled leaders signed the Declaration on Global Climatic Change and Biological Diversity. The Rio Convention endorsed the global Forest Principles and 1. Imagine, if the oil supply gets exhausted adopted Agenda 21 for achieving one day, how would this affect our life style? Sustainable Development in the 21st century. 2. Plan a survey in your colony/village to Agenda 21 investigate people’s attitude towards recycling of the domestic/agricultural It is the declaration signed by world leaders in 1992 at the United Nations Conference wastes. Ask questions about : on Environment and Development (UNCED), (a) What do they think about resources which took place at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It they use? aims at achieving global sustainable (b) What is their opinion about the development. It is an agenda to combat wastes, and its utilisation? environmental damage, poverty, disease through global co-operation on common interests, mutual needs and shared responsibilities. One major objective of the Agenda 21 is that every local government An equitable distribution of resources has should draw its own local Agenda 21. become essential for a sustained quality of life and global peace. If the present trend of resource depletion by a few individuals and RESOURCE PLANNING countries continues, the future of our planet is in danger. Planning is the widely accepted strategy for Therefore, resource planning is essential for judicious use of resources. It has importance in a country like India, which has enormous sustainable existence of all forms of life. diversity in the availability of resources. There Sustainable existence is a component of are regions which are rich in certain types of sustainable development. resources but are deficient in some other 2 CONTEMPORARY INDIA – II Reprint 2024-25