The components of sustainable development - a possible approach

The sustainable development of society refers to three major components of human existence: economical, ecological and human. The first component is esential, in the sense that the aim of social and economical activity is to satisfy human needs or desires, resulting for the three dimensions of human existence: biological (present in the interactions with the physica, natural environment), social/collective/collective (as a member of some social groups), rational/psychological/spiritual (induced by internal traits, particular to one human being). The relation between economical growth and the protection of the environment is an essential problem in the approaching sustainable development because the approach of economical growth not only by GDP, without trying a quantification of medium and long term advantages, resulting from environmental protection is only a basic form, unacceptable in sustainable development analysis. The human component in sustainable development has a major role, because the concept of equity incorporate severa forms of manifestation in regards of sustainable evolution of human society. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.