The conundrum of equitable, sustainable and
environmentally sound development
Accepted 8th
April, 2018
Hilton P. Silva
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde,
Ambiente e Sociedade, Laboratório de Estudos Bioantropológicos em Saúde e Meio
Ambiente, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal do
Pará, Belém. E-mail: hdasilva@ufpa.br. Tel: (91) 98867-8728.
Sustainable development
continues to be hard to define and difficult to
attain. The word ‘Conundrum’ provides an
accurate idea of the difficulties facing those
wanting to combine the terms. So far, one of the
hallmarks of our species has been the increasing
amounts of waste that we have been able to
create, what makes any form of economic
development unsustainable in the long term.
Using an example from Costa Rica, this article
presents some of the main issues that make the
meaning of the term “Sustainable development” so
controversial.
This is an open access article
published under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is
properly cited.
Cite this article as:
Silva HP (2018). The conundrum of
equitable, sustainable and environmentally sound development. Acad. J. Environ.
Sci. 6(4): 104-106.
