Value Orientation and Solutions in the Outlook on Sustainable Development

Abstract

As a concept of social development, the outlook on development is not only closely related to specific times and their social practices, but also strongly associated with cognitive subjects' cognitive methods and ways of thinking. It is both a worldview and a methodology. The outlook on development affects the formulation and operation of development models, approaches, methods and policies. Whatever the outlook on development is, there is a specific development model. The outlook on development determines the development model and further influences the extent to which society develops as a whole. The concept of development varies at different stages of human history, manifested in different outlooks on development. Sustainable development, as a value pursuit of human beings, advocates the growth of material wealth while maintaining ecologically sound conditions. Furthermore, it advocates equality of opportunity in the utilization of available environmental resources and the equal rights of all people to ecological benefits. The key to sustainable development is to balance the relationship between population, resources and environment.