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Socially unsustainable development

  • Culturally unsustainable development

Nature

Development is socially unsustainable as long as people have inadequate control over their own lives and experience their community identity as being continually eroded. Development is culturally unsustainable as long as it is incompatible with the culture and values of the people affected by it as determined by their own participation in the development process.

One example of socially unsustainable development is the devastating effect the paper pulp industry is having upon the countries of the southern hemisphere. This industry, previously considered environmentally benign, is responsible for wide spread misery, destitution and destruction of local communities, their land and the forests around them, particularly in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Indonesia, Thailand and South Africa.

Claim

The many interconnected obstacles to socially sustainable development and environmental protection include poverty, powerlessness, conflict, rapid population growth, and unequal access to resources.

Broader

Narrower

Aggravates

Terrorism
Presentable
Social breakdown
Presentable

Aggravated by

Oppression
Presentable
Conflict
Presentable

Strategy

Value

Unsustainable
Yet to rate

Reference

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero HungerSustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced InequalitySustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral problems
Subject
  • Culture » Culture
  • Development » Sustainable development » Sustainable development
  • Society » Social
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Nov 21, 2022