STRATEGIES

Now the issue is: what are all the strategies possible if a country wants to go for sustainable development? The World Bank (1992) suggested a threefold strategy for meeting the challenge of sustainable development. They are:

(a) Build on the positive links. Growth of income promotes efficient use of resources, technology transfer, market and investment in environment improvement. Poverty removal reduces population growth and provides resources and knowledge to enable the poor to take a long range view of development

(b) Break the negative links. Incentives, environment policies and institutions building are necessary to guarantee sustainability. Mere improvement in income and capacity to solve environment problems are not sufficient.

(c) Clarify and manage the uncertain links. Knowledge generation is important to know new relationship between man and environment and effective management of resources.

The above description of strategies is useful but abstract. It has to be operationalized in terms of indicators and processes.