Sustainable Development: Contemporary Issues and Emerging Perspectives

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Sustainable Development has become a strategic global goal. It describes development that takes into consideration the need to conserve both the natural environment and the world’s scarce non- renewable resources for future generations. Sustainable development can be viewed as encapsulating different ways of looking at varied issues and choices. While people interpret it in different ways, it is not a rejection of the objective of growth and increasing standards of living, but rather a view that understanding and right attitude can contribute to prosperity and at the same time advance the non-economic aspects of a better quality of life. Thus, sustainable development is an act of balancing economic, social, and environmental benefits through implementation of development policies, programs, and projects that will not enhance one type of benefit at the cost of others. Sustainable development also requires a major overhaul in the mindset, attitude, and behavior of the local people as well as of the international community. Though the present book serves an important purpose: to initiate debate and discussion on a new paradigm for sustainable development in the contemporary period.

The book is useful for corporate executives, managers, consultants, academicians, researchers and students in understanding the fundamental problems associated with sustainable development issued. It also focuses on the technological changes and trends that are revolutionizing the various knowledge areas for providing the solutions for sustainable development. The book is very useful for the students of Education, Environment, Law, Agriculture, IT, Business Management, Computer Science, Engineering and son on. It is also handy for general reference. In nutshell, the book is useful for everyone who is curious about the issues concerning sustainable development.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.S. Bhatia

Dr. B.S. Bhatia is presently Director, RIMT Institute of Management and Computer Technology, Mandi Gobindgarh. He has over four decades of rich experience in teaching, research, consultancy, industrial management and university administration. He has written/edited 30 books and has published over 65 research papers in national/international journals of repute. He supervised Ph.D. research work of 30 scholars and has conducted over two dozen executive development programs. Dr. Bhatia has been associated with a large number of organisations in various capacities like Member, LIC Zonal Board; Member, Management Board of AICTE; Senator, TIET; Consultant, PSEB; Member, academic Council MD University, Rohtak; Member, Syndicate, Senate, Finance Committee; and Academic Council of Pubjabi University, Patiala, etc. He has been President of Patiala Management Association. He has the distinction of being the first person to be appointed as Professor of Management for Hindustan Steel Chair at prestigious Indian School of Mines, dhanbad. Previously, he had served in several senior positions like Registrar; Dean Academic Affairs; Dean Research; Dean College Development Council at Pubjabi University, Patiala; and Directors of several companies and is a member of Committee on Higher Education set-up by Government of Punjab.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dhiraj Sharma

Dhiraj Sharma, Assistant Professor, School of Management Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab).

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Title
Sustainable Development: Contemporary Issues and Emerging Perspectives
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9788184502817
Length
xxiii+499p., Illustrations;Tabels; Figures; Index; 25cm.
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