povdev@salford2012: Sustainable Development

“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need”

classical definition given by the UN World Commissions on Environment and Development in 1987

· is a term widely used by politicians all over the world

· is still rather new and lacks a uniform interpretation

· concept is still being developed

· main components: economic, social and environment factors

Sustainable development: the bigger picture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZmg56ahdM (10– 47 sec.)

Sustainability explained through animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NiTN0chj0&feature=related

Human Development Report

The 2011 Human Development Report 2011 focuses on 'Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All’. It argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2011/summary/

Download the Human Development Report here:

http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2011/download/

Human Development Index (HDI)

· HDI first appeared in 1990 with three components:

1. Long and healthy life – Life expectancy

2. Knowledge – Adult literacy rate

3. Standard of living – GDP per capita: Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

· a composite statistic HDI is a socio-economic measure

· attempt by the UNDP to capture some important indicators of human development

· used to rank countries by level of:

human development
developed (high development)
developing (middle development)
Less developed (low development) countries
Least developed (very low development)
Life expectancy, education and per-capita GDP
HDI as a measure of development which changes the world
ranking quite fundamentally

Unlike the comparison of countries of the World Bank, it takes into account not only the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of a country in purchasing power parity, but also the life expectancy and education levels with the help of the literacy rate and enrollment rate of the population.

Click here to see a map of the world with the HDI

http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/map/

And here for more figures and statistics

http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

Here you find a video how to use the Interactive Map and Graph for Visualization of the Human Development Index

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy82OaiALwI&feature=related

When switching of the sounds, this video clip is a useful for comparison of different countries with different HDI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuczJTVGk6c