2002 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Sustainable Development in the Non-Energy Extractive Industry
Southern Caucasus case The European Union Approach Some tools for the Promotion of Sustainable Development in the Non-Energy Extractive Industry
Author : G. Morizot
Published in: Mineral Resource Base of the Southern Caucasus and Systems for its Management in the XXI Century
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The term’ sustainable development’ corresponds to a concept that has been, during the last decade, increasingly in use in different circles (scientists, economists, politicians, bankers, etc.) No development nowadays seems to be worth to be considered if it could not be qualified as sustainable. Now to the word “sustainability” is generally associated the concept of duration and permanent progress: how is it possible to associate such concept of duration and permanent progress to the exploitation of natural resources which are not renewable?