Environmental Sustainability: The Success Of A Sustainable Community

First and foremost, the success of a sustainable community is solely dependent on its member’s engagements and contribution. This may be accomplished through

• Dynamic, planned, and well-versed citizenship.

• Inspiring, efficient, and receptive leadership.

• Liable, compassionate, and healthy community institutions, services, and businesses. As a result, a sustainable community manages its human, natural, and financial resources to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are rightfully available for future generations. It searches for, a better quality of life, a better quality of life for the whole community without compromising the wellbeing of other communities, healthy ecosystems, effective governance supported by meaningful

What makes us alive is our environment, though it is now fragmented in many ways by the forces of modernity and development. Recent developmental initiatives, which are the culmination of modern way of living, have endangered especially the life and livelihood of the people and the whole world. The over-exploitation of nature has led to climate change, deforestation, global warming, pollution, natural disasters, waste disposal, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification and acid rain. Environmental sustainability is about making responsible decisions that will reduce your business' negative impact on the environment. It is not simply about reducing the amount of waste you produce or using less energy, but is concerned with developing processes that will lead to businesses becoming completely sustainable in the future. Taking into consideration the problems faced by the environment, it is a must to sensitize people and make them conscious of the consequences that they may face with then environmental degradation. In Mauritius, in response to the global energy crisis in 2007, the Government became fully conscious of the importance of promoting renewable energy and sustainable development for the wellbeing of its citizens. As such, in 2008, the Maurice Ile Durable (MID) concept was announced, as being the new long term vision for making Mauritius a sustainable

• Conservation of water, land, energy, and nonrenewable resources.

• Utilization of prevention strategies and appropriate technology to minimize pollution.

• Use of renewable resources no faster than their rate of renewal.

• Infrastructure that improves access to services and markets without damaging the environment.

Further to that, the major targets in the area of environment protection have already been attained by Mauritius as country has taken several initiatives aimed at improving the quality of its environment. Several projects and policies having a direct impact on Millennium Development Goal 7 have been developed, namely:

• Development of a National Program on Sustainable Consumption and Production;

• Study on Environmental Sensitive Areas

• Development of an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Framework;

• Updating of the National Environmental Strategies and review of the implementation of the National Environmental Action Plan; and

• National Sustainable Development Strategy for the Republic of