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Abstract
The idea of sustainable development has attracted groups with very
different interests. Sustainable development as a concept aims to resolve
the environment- economic- social conflicts by portraying itself as a
multi-dimensional concept, which perceives environment, social and
economic objectives in an integrated way. A key to sustainability is to
conserve and use available resources wisely. Current literature
concerning sustainable development challenges how it can be translated
into principles on which practicable and effective policies can be based
and which will reverse current unsustainable trends, principally of
environmental degradation and social injustice. It focuses on gaps in
implementing the concept successfully in the real world and the
uncertainty on to what extent the concept has successfully embedded
itself to guide the direction of planning and development routes (Elliott
1999; Owens and Cowell 2002)