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Issue 2 |
April, 1998 |
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Features an international collection of students' thoughts about sustainable development
What is Sustainable Development?
SD Quote: "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
--The Brundtland Commission report Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
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Student Beat How Environment Effects Uganda's Sustainable Development
P. Sempala, S Sendijja, A. Sekankya, R. Mukiibi, C. Nabbona, G. Ndiwalana, S. Ntege,
Sustainable development can be defined as the development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs. To a very large extent sustainable development has
been contributed mainly by the environmental factor. The environmental
factor consists of quite a good number of issues And these are Air, Water,
Land, Animals and Plants plus minerals and all these can be explained below;
Air:
This is the mixture of all the gases Air has got so many uses. For example
it can be used in Hospitals as a source of Oxygen. This is also another way
of how the air has contributed to sustainable development.
Air is also very important in That it also plays a role in the growth of
plants. This is also a development as these plants do grow the output that
is got from them can be used for exchange purposes and therefore this is
also a sustainable development as it encourages foreign exchange.
Air has some hindrances. For example there is pollution. This is mainly
concerned with the Industries. . |
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