The Ethical Foundations of Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development
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Date
2013
Authors
Makokha, Kibaba
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Publisher
African Journals Online
Abstract
One of the major challenges of the 21st century is the need to harmonize efforts at
environmental conservation with endeavours to foster human development. This challenge
has been on the world agenda for several decades, and was given great visibility through a
report by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in 1987. The
report, popularly known as the Brundtland Report, calls for sustainable development to deal
with the twin challenges of environmental conservation and human development. This paper
reflects on the concept of sustainable development, and unveils some of the ambiguities and
politics that have militated against the attainment of this noble objective. The thesis of the
paper is that the imperative to attain sustainable development is a moral one, requiring all
moral agents to rise to their individual and collective responsibility to secure the well-being
of humans as well as that of the natural environment.
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Keywords
Environmental conservation, sustainable development, the right to development
Citation
Makokha, K. (2013). The ethical foundations of environmental conservation and sustainable development. Thought and Practice, 5(2), 1-17.