Interaction
Year : 2017, Volume : 35, Issue : 3
First page : ( 46) Last page : ( 52)
Print ISSN : 0970-5554. Online ISSN : 2456-8961.

Debating Sustainability: Reappraising the linkage among economy, society and environment

Krishan Abhay

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, BHU, Varanasi

Online published on 11 July, 2018.

Abstract

We are living in an era where our relationship to nature, is being dramatically transformed through the discourses of neoliberal development. Modernity and economic rationalization of development discourses altered the livelihoods pattern of commons. The economic, environmental and social problems cannot be addressed without an equivalent dialogue of the three essential sub-systems of sustainable development (which means the end of the neo-liberal dominance of the economy and neglect of values). The threat of ecological collapse and several environment issues due to the ways development projects is implemented means that there is an urgent need for debate why sustainability discourse (environment, society and economy) became an incomplete project and why state and corporate capitalism ignore the environment and focuses on the economy with the logic of greening the development. The present paper would try to understand the way ecological natives coping with the environment problem i.e. deforestation, land degradation, displacement and poverty. The present paper would also deal with the debate of economy and ecology to address the contemporary environment problems and ended with the hope of understanding the importance of Sustainable Development by the present generation.

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