Dimensions of Sustainable Development
Sustainable development seeks to reconcile the economic, social and environmental dimensions. The economic dimension is related to covering all basic human needs and improving their well-being and standard of living. This requires developing productive capacities and available technologies through supporting scientific research and working to transform projects into investment projects and adopting modern production and management methods in order to increase productivity.
As for the social dimension, it is by ensuring a fair distribution of wealth and resources and establishing a social protection system that provides the right to all members of society without discrimination to obtain health services and insure them against life risks.
As for the environmental dimension, it is by working to reduce the harmful effects of productive activities on the environment and on the rational consumption of non-renewable resources and seeking to develop the use of renewable energy sources and recycling waste.
Sustainable development includes a wide range of multi-faceted issues for managing the economy, environment and society. These three elements form the pillars of sustainable development, which is a balanced and harmonious development that aims to improve the quality of life and is based on setting barriers that reduce pollution, the volume of waste and residues, and the volume of energy consumption, and setting taxes that limit the wasteful consumption of water and vital resources.
Human life and well-being are linked to the health of its environment, and no society can continue without healthy water sources, fertile land and the presence of forests. It is worth noting that poor environmental quality causes 25% of all preventable diseases in the world today.
The application of an effective environmental management system works to reduce environmental pollution in factories, production units and service units and works to increase production as a result of reducing the volume of air, solid and liquid waste and recycling what cannot be disposed of through methods of reducing the various elements of environmental pollution. The environmental management system is based on preparing a policy aimed at modifying the system of dealing with raw materials and natural resources. This policy leads to reducing the use of these resources to reduce the volume of harmful pollutants.