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nsitive ecosys- cratic, political solution to deal with the challenge of find-
tourism, the ing a sustainable development/resource management
i other issues. equilibrium.
icted access to within any sustainable development model it must be
of alternative recognized that there are limits to development even when
g an informed it is managed properly. Furthermore, that a maximum level
of sustainittr development exists must be recognized and
quantitative models to predict broad limits to it need to be
developed.
The argument of the world commission on Environment
that if the Pre-
and Deve.-lopment (1987) that development is sustainable if
dustrialization,
rpletion contin- t[e present generation can satisff its needs without com-
piomising thg ability of future generations to meet their
; planet will be
own needs is attractive, but it must withstand examination
lest that small, of the tradeoffs involved in satisflring different kinds of
well before the
. shape a vision
needs. If the present generation, by modifring a particular
;hould look like set of natural ecosystems is able to provide future genera-
'd to determine tions with greater endowments of capital or knowledge, or
trial and unde- a larger set of undisturbed
rality of life and ecosystems of a different
nature, it is not a foregone con-
its citizens.
rmmunities are clusion that it is sociallY oPti- International
rm others'prob- mal to sustain that Particular
set of ecosystems. co-operation and
dependence are
ral soverei$ntY. Of course, we looked at a
sustainability paradigm onlY enforcement is
;ustainabilitY of within a single societY. The
1y of these glob- needed
world is comprised of manY dif-
rtly as the ocean ferent societies with more and
.usive Economic
re land mass. less cultural homogeneitY.
nt is needed for
cultural attitudes towards sustainability influence philo-
sophical views about intergenerational equity. It would be
interdependent profitable to examine the influences on individual and soci-
NEEDS
etal values in other Caribbean cultures in order to better
understand the preferences of the current $eneration and
:ment paradigm tJre prospective values of future generations. These atti-
I models, imPer- tudes will inevitably be different in groups which have
s shortcomings' expanded rapidly by exploiting non-renewable resources,
egislate a demo- than in groups with nearly static territories and technolo-
gies. This may help explain why material progress rather
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