Sustainable development has three goals: to provide for ecological protection, to enhance economic well-being and to meet beneficial social goals. Three broadly defined disciplines are called on as the means to assess if a project (such as a new power station, a new road, or a major tourism resort) is likely to meet the overall sustainable development objective. We need to understand how these disciplines are applied in a sustainable development framework and utilized in an EIA. Sustainability challenges the conventional wisdom of economic assessments where the long term relates to three or four years. This is nonsensical from our perspective. How intra-generational and intergenerational equity—basic concepts of equality—can be conceptualized and applied in EIAs is explained.
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