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5 pages in length. Understanding the far-reaching aspects of sustainable development reflects the focal point of Michael Gunder's article entitled "Sustainability: Planning's Redemption or Curse?" The extent to which this seemingly beneficial concept for preserving environmental considerations while at the same time continuing to develop the land has become a double-edged sword speaks to the internal conflicts that exist between/among the three primary components of such an endeavor: environment, social equity and economy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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environmental considerations while at the same time continuing to develop the land has become a double-edged sword speaks to the internal conflicts that exist between/among the three primary components of
such an endeavor: environment, social equity and economy. "Sustainability, even if a fuzzy, ill-defined, concept, has now reached the near-universal status of being a desired concept of good.
Indeed, its very fuzziness allows multiple actors to have diverse and even conflicting interpretations of what sustainability means. Yet even in their disagreement all can agree that sustainability is,
in itself, a good thing" (Gunder, 2007). As much as it may be a good thing, sustainable development is caught in the
ongoing quagmire of tangled perception to such an extent that the goodness is often overlooked. Sustainable development, which has become "one of the most prominent phrases in development discourse"
(Adams, 2001, p. 1), is mans way of attempting to live and progress harmoniously with his surrounding environment without imparting anymore damage or destruction. While this approach has been
successful in bringing the environment into mainstream development thinking, critics contend such hindsight efforts are too little too late. Before the concept of
sustainable development was widely accepted, mainstream development thinking was basically an attitude of us against them. For as long as there has been land to exploit, there has also
been a war raging between developers and environmentalists; indeed, the battle that exists is one that claims to benefit both sides of the issue: the developers for the people and
the environmentalists for the land and its resources. According to the land developers, mankind has a right to use this planet in any way that promotes his own health
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