The multidimensional sustainable development phenomenon has been the subject of theoretical and pragmatic discourses during the last two decades. While such discourses highlighted sustainability as one of the major objectives of all development policies, ensuring a sustainable mode of development may imply a continuous search for adequate means and ways to address the persistent problems of food shortages and starvation in marginalized regions of the world, the increasing incidence of man-made and natural disasters, the failure to reduce environmentally hazardous activities, and other dynamic development challenges that represent a global threat to sustainability
