Human beings with the help of technological advancement and consumption of energy resources have made many inventions and discoveries to make their life more and more comfortable. At present without technology and mineral power resources we cannot think about life. It has entered in a large scale in almost every sector be it agriculture, industries, transport and domestic. The following are the measures to achieve sustainable development:

(i) Reviving growth: Sustainable development must address the issue of poverty. Poverty increases pressure on the environment by following a lifestyle that degrades the environment. Efforts should be made to provide them certain alternatives like skill training, education etc. So that they can earn a livelihood and come out of poverty. Otherwise the very purpose of sustainability or sustainable development will be forfeited. Because as long as poverty will be there, poor people will depend upon nature for their survival. 

(ii) Meeting is Entail human needs: This is a prerequisite for reviving growth. It is evident that unless the basic needs are satisfied the individual cannot participate in the growth process. More food and quality food should be provided because this is not just to feed people but to attack under-nourishment and to develop the immune system for preventing diseases.

(iv) Changing and enhancing the resource base: There are moral as well as economic arguments for this. The moral argument is that we have to preserve resources for the sustenance of the next generation. The economic argument is that we cannot say to the poor people that they must remain in poverty to protect the environment. The challenge in sustainability is how we should conserve resources without jeopardising the growth and equal access to resources for livelihood. Simultaneously there is a need to find alternatives to non-renewable resources-more efficient use of resources-discovery of new resources and discovery of low waste technology.

(vi) Reorienting technology and managing risk: The implications of above five strategies are for the orientation of technology. All technological developments must pay greater attention to environmental factors. This is closely linked to the issue of risk management wherein environmental impacts have to be effectively minimised.

(vii) Merging environment and economies in decision making: Economies and ecology should not be seen as opposition but as interlocking. Sustainable development requires the unification of economies and ecology in international relations.