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SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Sustainable Community Development This refers to a stage of development, during which the community is able to meet its present and future needs with its own resources. The primary needs of a community are poverty eradication and community organization. The satisfaction of community needs and aspiration is a primary objective of sustainable community development. For sustainable community development to be achieved, a number of things need to be considered. These include: • standardizing the consumption of resources for long-term sustainability; • creating an environment for equitable access to resources for a better quality of life; • minimizing the demographic dividend (A demographic dividend is the freeing up of resources for a country's economic development and the future prosperity of its populace as it switches from an agrarian to an industrial economy) in a community to explore resources in optimum and reasonable way. Sustainable development emph...