ABSTRACT
The intensity of the disputes about the nature and applicability of sustainable development illuminates the importance of resolving human disharmony with people environment, and indicates that there are still likely to be problems with sustainable development as it is currently defined. The Republic of the Marshall Islands consists of approximately 29 coral atolls roughly organised into two chains in the western Pacific Ocean north of the equator between 40 and 140 North, and 1600 and 1730 Eas. One impact of the infusion of United States personnel and technology has been the concentration of Marshallese people on Majuro and Ebeye atolls, so that today only 35% of the population live on the remaining 24 atolls. Development is defined as the process of becoming a country with a relatively high level of industrialisation and standard of living, but sustainable is defined as consumption without depletion or damage of the resource being consumed.
