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Cleaning Bagmati Cleaning water resources

e. Determination of Limit of Development Works
Earth is our common home land. It has limited carrying capacity. Any development
activities should not be conducted haphazardly beyond the carrying capacity of Earth.
People tend to use resources excessively for their benefits. Actually, the non-renewable
natural resources should be used in a limited way. The application of concept of
sustainable development motivates people to utilize the resources properly and conduct
the development works in a sustainable way. It also awares planners to conduct
development works only to limited extent.

f. Long Term Vision
Sustainable development has put forward the objective of social and economic development
without depleting the resources in environment. The resources in environment are our
common property. Sustainable development makes an effort to develop the concept of
maintaining present day work for future use. While conducting development works, the
resource must not be depleted for future use. Hence, sustainable development conserves the
resources in environment by creating long term feelings towards the development works.

Principles of Sustainable Development

Some of the principles of sustainable development are as follows:
a. Conservation of ecosystem b. Sustainable development of society
c. Conservation of biodiversity d. Population control
e. Development of human resource f. Increase of public participation
g. Conservation of cultural heritages h. Limit of carrying capacity of Earth

a. Conservation of ecosystem
The main focus of sustainable development is to take
care of the earth and resources present in the earth.
So, the resources like water, soil, mineral, forest,
wildlife, etc. should be utilized in a proper way.
Apart from that, various ecosystems like forest, lake,
river, grassland, watershed, wetland, etc. present in
mountain, hilly and terai region should be conserved.
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