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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) |