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- Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations. The term was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."[1][2][3]
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Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social challenges facing humanity. As early as the 1970s "sustainability" was employed to describe an economy "in equilibrium with basic ecological support systems."[4] Ecologists have pointed to The Limits to Growth, and presented the alternative of a “steady state economy”[5] in order to address environmental concerns.
The field of sustainable development can be conceptually broken into three constituent parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability.
See also
- Sustainable development in Wikipedia
- Institutes for sustainable development:
- International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Canada (in Wikipedia)
- Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, Leicester, England
- Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford, UK
- International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK (in Wikipedia)
References
- ↑ United Nations. 1987."Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development." General Assembly Resolution 42/187, 11 December 1987. Retrieved: 2007-04-12
- ↑ Smith, Charles; Rees, Gareth: Economic Development, 2nd edition. Macmillan, 1998, Basingstoke. ISBN 0333722280.
- ↑ Sustainable development in Wikipedia
- ↑ Stivers, R. 1976. The Sustainable Society: Ethics and Economic Growth. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
- ↑ Daly, H. E. 1973. Towards a Steady State Economy. San Francisco: Freeman. Daly, H. E. 1991. Steady-State Economics (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Island Press.