backed up by the explication given by Mircea Malita: “Next to sustainable de- velopment (ecological and economic), the concept of “human oriented” has been added, reflecting the concept of “sustainable human development”. The social dimension is basically that which gives sustainable
development consistency, because at the basis of all environmental problems lies society acting through its basic component: man. Moreover, the dysfunc- tions of the environment have a repercussion on the entire society, generating a negative feedback. Today’s society, focused on financial gains in its eco- nomic impulse to thrive, consciously neglects the environment even if there is talk of climatic changes, which, in most cases, generate a dwindling of food resources, or even the lack of food, and also the apparition of conflicts (irrespective of their nature). The population’s state of health is also partly due to the environment’s crises (prolonged draughts causing the lack of food and the fight for it; the same situation happens with floods and other extreme phe- nomena etc.);
The economic dimension refers itself to establishing quantity co-
ordinates for the process of sustainable development in connection with the present and future needs of humanity and also establishing the qualitative coordinates, including the increase of economic growth’s costs, depending on ecological factors. In the terms of economic theory, sustainable development is “on the balance line between Malthusian pessimism and Ricardian opti- mism.”
The political dimension demands for a nuance, at least nowa-
days, when the nation-state meets a weakening of its prerogatives. „Susan Strange has identified four major hypotheses which back up the affirmation that transnational companies and not states have come to play the major role in determining “who-gets-what” in the global system”. The first hypotheses is full of significance in our case, more precisely, the role the state plays in con- trolling resources, industries, commerce, services etc. has been taken over by transnational companies. „The decision regarding what is produced by whom, with what and where is getting more and more out of the state’s reach, getting closer to transnational companies.”. As a result, the concept of a political di- mension shall have a very important role in the future (perhaps the nearby one), in the context of the economic dimension. The geopolitical dimension assimilates all the other elements
where global environment issues are concerned, and even more so in the case of various treaties, agreements, protocols which, most of the times, are introduced differentially and signed according to preferences. There si a multi- tude of examples which come to strengthen the affirmation saying that the global environment is seen differently (willingly or not) by international actors (states, regional blocks, transnational companies etc.) For instance, in the few existing developed states which are the ones who produce the most pollution because they are still home to great industrial units, the subject of environ- ment is altered even in the case of applying the necessary policies. That is
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