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Social impact assessment (SIA)
An assessment of the impact on people and society of major development projects: social impact assessment is often a weak point in environmental impact assessments. Social impacts are defined as those changes in social relations between members of a community, society or institution, resulting from external change.
Stakeholders

Individuals who have a vested interest in development, including community members; environmental, social, and community NGOs; natural resource, planning, and government officials; hotel owners, tour operators, guides, transportation providers, and representatives from other related services in the private sector.

Stakeholders

The individuals and organizations that are considered, consulted and potentially involved in developing policy, strategy, initiatives and decision-making.

Strategic planning
A dynamic and issue-orientated process to help the individual/organization to take control of significant and desirable potential futures. Strategic planning is the process of deciding what the future of the operation should be, and what strategies should be followed in order to make that future happen.
SUP

Single-use plastics are designed to be used once and then discarded, contributing to the massive amount of plastic waste that is polluting our planet. It is typically made from fossil fuels, a non-renewable resource. By reducing our reliance on single-use plastic, we can help to conserve natural resources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, India generated around 34.7 lakh (3.47 million) tonnes of plastic waste in 2019-20. Avoiding the use of items made from plastic that can only be used once is an important step to reduce its damaging impact on our health and environment. From the 1st of July 2022, the Government of India decided to ban certain single-use plastic items, such as plates, cups, glasses, cutlery such as forks, spoons, knives, straws, trays and cigarette packets, plastic or PVC banners of less than 100 microns. Single-use plastics take hundreds of years to break down, and they can harm wildlife that ingests or becomes entangled in them. Therefore, refusing single-use plastic also helps to protect our marine and terrestrial ecosystems. By making small changes in our daily lives to refuse single-use plastics, we can help to create a more sustainable and resilient future for all.

Sustainability
This is advanced through the magical transmutation of the term ‘ecological sustainable development’ into ‘economically sustainable development’ through the substitution of the letter E in the acronym ‘ESD’. It is an indication of the latitude with which the concept of sustainability can be interpreted. Thus, the concept of sustainability is both contested and deployed, often, for profoundly different reasons.
SustainableAble to be carried out without damaging the long-term health and integrity of natural and cultural environments.
Sustainable development
Defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in 1987 as ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. Environmental protection and management is central to sustainable development.
Sustainable Ecotourism Development (SED)

Development of ecotourism, which meets the needs and aspirations of the current generation without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations.