authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/nens19 Sustainable development – historical roots of the concept Jacobus A. Du Pisani Professor of History a a School for Social and Government Studies‚ North-West University‚ Potchefstroom‚ South Africa Version of record first published: 16 Feb 2007. To cite this article: Jacobus A. Du Pisani Professor of History (2006): Sustainable development – historical roots of the concept‚ Environmental Sciences‚ 3:2‚ 83-96 To link
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Science‚ Medicine and Technology What is sustainable development? Sustainable development has been defined in many ways‚ but the most frequently quoted definition is from Our Common Future‚ also known as the Brundtland Report:[1] Sustainable development has various definitions; a well-known definition is that of the Brundtland Report. According to the Brundtland Report‚ "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: 1) the concept of needs‚ in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor‚ to which overriding priority should be given 2) the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs." Over the past two decades
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Social & Development Science Faculty of Human Ecology Universiti Putra Malaysia sharifah@putra.upm.edu.my Introduction to Agenda 21 v The Earth Summit held in Rio De Janerio‚ Brazil was attended by 178 country leaders (including Malaysia) on June 1992. The Earth Summit provides world’s action plan towards sustainable development. This action plan was known as Agenda 21 - an agenda to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century. Agenda 21 is designed as a bridge v between environment
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INTRODUCTION Sustainable development is about human development where the use of natural resources aim to meet the needs of human beings while simultaneously ensuring that the environment is maintained. These needs must be met for present as well as for future generations. In other words‚ in order for human beings as well as the planet to survive‚ changes has to be made that will maintain the natural resources that is available. There is currently a trade-off between sustainability and economic growth
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people‚ the word sustainable is an adjective that means the activity the word describes can continue forever. For example‚ since biblical days‚ farmers practiced sustainable agriculture by leaving their fields fallow every seventh year. In early America‚ farmers knew that for agriculture to be sustainable‚ the same crop could not be planted in the same field year after year. Sustainable agriculture has always been practiced by successful farmers. Farmers who didn’t practice sustainable agriculture inevitably
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Sustainablity Paper Engineering Ethics‚ Sustainable Development and the Law ES 4498F/G Submitted By:Muhammad Musa Khan Submitted to:Dr. Kevin Mcguire The industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th century saw the progress of human kind in manufacturing and energy. The source of this revolution was the discovery of minerals and fossil fuels‚ which the human race started to exploit without thinking of the consequences on the environment. Fossil fuels were burnt for energy and mines were
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GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE WORKING PAPER 00-04 Basic Principles of Sustainable Development Jonathan M. Harris June 2000 Tufts University Medford MA 02155‚ USA http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae © Copyright 2000 Global Development and Environment Institute‚ Tufts University G-DAE Working Paper No. 00-04: “Basic Principles of Sustainable Development” Basic Principles of Sustainable Development 1 Jonathan M. Harris jonathan.harris@tufts.edu 1. The Concept of Development
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Sustainable Development There are many definitions of sustainable development‚ including this landmark one which first appeared in 1987: "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of growth in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present‚ but also for generations to come (sometimes
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CLASS X CBSE-i UNIT-2 Economics Sustainable Development and Planning Concepts Students’ Manual Shiksha Kendra‚ 2‚ Community Centre‚ Preet Vihar‚Delhi-110 092 India CBSE-i Unit - 2 Sustainable Development and Planning Concepts Unit - 2 Sustainable Development and Planning Concepts CBSE-i CBSE-i CLASS X UNIT-2 Economics Sustainable Development and Planning Concepts Students’ Manual Shiksha Kendra‚ 2‚ Community Centre‚ Preet Vihar‚Delhi-110 092
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