The Multidimensional Nature of Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is an attempt at formulating a program which would integrate the different dimensions of human activity on the basis of a moral reflection as to human responsibility for nature. This integration is connected with moral, ecological, technical, economic, legal, social and political dimensions. The article presents profiles of all these dimensions, as well as matters of the mutual interactions between them. Modern environmental problems cannot be solved with the help of technological means only, avoiding social and moral issues. A clean environment is important, but if it is achieved in return for high unemployment, or by creating other strong social conflicts, it will not be consistent with the idea of sustainable development.