environmental:
... of or pertaining to the aggregate
of things, conditions, and influences in a
balanced state surrounding a location at
a given point in time; a word sometimes
used as a heading for a category of economic
development data, for example, provided in a location
package. Page
2 of About Site Selection
lists environmental among other items of location
data. Scroll down this page for information
about the affect economic development is thought to have
on the environment. At anytime natural
resources are expended or unfamiliar changes
are observed in an environment the
question of negative economic development impact
is likely to be raised.
environmental impact:
... that which happens and effects the environment. An
environmental impact statement is a report or follow-up
to an analysis which projects or speculates on
what environmental changes
may
occur
in an area as
a result of adding to or taking away from its balanced
state.
environmental protection:
... the act or acts of addressing issues
and problems of environmental change.
The US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) which began
addressing
issues and
problems of pollution affects on environments in 1970 offers a glossary
and reference to abbreviations at its website. Just
a few of the terms defined are air pollution, solid waste
management, noise, wastewater,
radiation,
pesticide, brownfield,
construction ban and smoke emissions. The environmental impact statement
defined above is part of
the process of permitting or
enforcing
EPA regulations.
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limits to economic development:
... consideration of limitations should perhaps
begin with review of a book by Donella H. Meadows, The
Limits to Growth, published in the1970s and
events that followed: The book projected a grim future
for an over populated, highly polluted, resource-depleted,
world. It awakening a nascent environmental movement
and became a bible for environmentalists. An
article archived in the online library of the Context
Institute is introduced with the following statement: ... The
Limits to Growth reveals that we are closer to "overshoot
and collapse" yet
sustainability is still an achievable goal. The
title to the article suggests the name of book, Beyond
the Limits by Dennis Meadows, Dana Meadows and Jorgen
Randers, which was a sequel to The Limits to Growth.
Beyond the Limits projected that a world population
growth of 50%, industrial output increase of 85%, and
disastrous depletion of nonrenewable resources will come
about between the time of its publication and 2020. It
also predicted pollution and erosion of farmland fertility
to the extent that food production will begin to fall
by 2015 and quality-of-life, industrial output, and population
will decline by mid-century.
Dana Meadows (deceased) founded an ecological village
and The Sustainability
Institute. The issues covered by the books,
article and mention of the founding of The Sustainability
Institute suggest limits to economic growth to put it
euphemistically. Focus on such limitations is, for the
most part, relegated to a position overshadowed by the
politics of developing economies and underdeveloped nations.
Politics plays a big role in economic development.
Links for additional information:
 International
Institute for Sustainable Development website
The
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems website / EOLSS?UNESCO
Context
Institute website
definition
of sustainable / definition
of sustainable development
a
definition of sustainable community / attributes
of the sustainable community
basics
of location sustainability in Site
Location Assistance.com
Wikipedia
comments on sustainable development
An
Earth Day Tribute to Donella Meadows, Earth Missionary by Craig
Freshley
definition
of political and economic development model
International
Network of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights website
Karl
Marx views on expanding markets of a free enterprise system
negative economic development impact:
... the compelling effect of economic
development that occurs as opposite to what is desirable,
for example, when an enterprise shuts down in a
place and workers lose their jobsthe
antithesis of the
process as defined in terms of job
creation. Many locations are the beneficiaries of site
selection in terms of relocation but
the negative economic development
impact that occurs elsewhere are to be considered in the big picturesee
the definition of business
retention and the .network guide to economic
development best practices for information about what communities
should do to try to avoid the negative.
social development:
... one of the processes of change that take place
within the group inhabitants that makes up a community, especially
as it relates to fulfillment of aspirations. The first change process
occurs when there is an attempt to establish a community
in a place. It
is a time of survival and organization for sustainability. After
that comes a time of growth, as in putting down roots.
Social
development occurs after roots are established and it appears
that sustainability is secure. Social
evolution follows. These four
change
processes are not separate. Instead they tend to blend together as
each of the other three are observed as occurring within any one
distinctive stage. As a practical matter, some form
of economy is
likely to be created during the survival stage if it is not, in fact,
an economic opportunity that brings about the
establishment of the community itself. In any case, economic
development is threaded
throughout the survival, growth, development and evolution stages.
Wikipedia links: social
development / social
evolution / sociocultural evolution
The following is quoted
from the Site Location Assistance website but
actually
originated with a resource paper published as a guide
for communities seeking enterprise
and economic development opportunities
as well as users of .network resources.
Somewhere centuries ago a community decided to
celebrate, and a festival was born. Vendors sensed that people would
gather and be in a mood to buy their wares. Townsfolk realized that
visitors from afar would need places to rest. Someone knew enough to
organize the event and, if that person was a visionary, he knew that
revelers would pay to watch the sun go down, that is if accompanying
food and music were provided.
Visitors beat new paths to the community. Paths turned into roads.
Vendors decided that the festival was sustainable, so they stayed
on, calling the place where they gathered to do business the market.
The community now had a commercial center. Dwellings that offered
hospitality became inns and eating-places. The sun was reliable in
its setting. This was the place where (a sustainable
community was established).
When the community comes to the stage of social evolution its inhabitants
need to be alert to changes that may ultimately threaten sustainability.
Evolution means that groups may become separated
by differences which can tear the fabric of community; therefore,
nonpartisan leaders need work a finding consensus based on aspirations
for the common good.
sustainable business development:
... in this case business
development has the same definition as enterprise
development. Sustainable enterprise development incorporates
all that exists in an economy or community that
facilitates a continuation of the growth of existing
businesses and entrepreneurial efforts
to startup new
ventures with a reasonable expectation of success. Also, there are
comments and links to resources in a file of the Free
Management Library titled, Sustainable
Business Development. The file draws a definition of sustainable
development from The World Commission on Environment and Development
(the Brundtland Commission) report, Our
Common Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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title: development with sustainability
[Appendix F]
a page in the .network glossary
Karl Marx is
quoted as saying that ... The need of a constantly
expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire
surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere,
establish connections everywhere. The comments are more thought
provoking than substantive but do, perhaps, call for an explanation
of negative economic development impact
and suggest that it may be worthwhile to take a look at the answer
to the question of what is the North American Economic Development Model.
Marx's The
Communist Manifesto is recognized as being an influential
political manuscript, to say the least. It is the seed of the destructive
division of the global community during most of 20th century, a time
when technological progress and social development did not mix well.
Learn more about the background of Marx's influence and how it has
contributed to a new
world order evolving today by using the links in these two paragraphs.
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where you find them.
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