ABSTRACT
In the current global context, international law on development suggests that sustainable development (SD) is the most desired global paradigm in the implementation of a country’s development agenda. 1 The genesis of the term “sustainability” reflects the common concern of the global community that the conventional model of economic development, bereft of environmental and social protection, will potentially bring disastrous consequences. 2 Global framework on sustainability has been designed to minimise and, in many cases, avoid these effects. Principally, SD is a “decision-making framework”, which requires both consideration and the achievement of environmental protection, social justice, and economic development. 3 Within this framework, a state should develop its economy, societies, and care for the environment with a “similar ideal in mind” as objectives. Hence, even if the concept of sustainability may deem to be a monocentric vision, it possesses “overtly polycentric issues”, such as costs and benefits, trade-offs, and complementarities, within its broader scope. 4
