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Question 1. What concepts do you think are important in the Brundtland definition of sustainable development and why ? Provide at least two criticisms that have been made of this definition. are there replies to these criticism?

Question 2. In what sense is Rees concept of the ecological footprint a limitation on human activities?

Question 3. How is relationship between environmental sustainability, social sustainability. and economic sustainability represented in the three legged stool diagram? how is this representation misleading?

Question 4. Explain the difference between economic inequality and social inequality and how are they linked?

Question 5. Explain how normative issues arise through the evaluation of policy?

Question 6 Explain how the dictionary of sustainable (a process that can contuine indefinitely into the future) is relevant but inadequate to capture the meaning if sustainability as it applies to policy and development?

Question 7. What is the difference between human needs and human wants? How might the notion of flourishing hero with this distinction? Are there challenges in using this concept to distinguish, for any desire, whether it constitutes a need or a want?

Question 8. What is GDP and why is it a poor measure of “standard of living” If what we are attempting to measure is something relevant to sustainability ? How is the happy planet index different from standard of living ? Do you think that it is an adequate indicator of the degree to which a country has achieved sustainability? why or why not?

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