Concept of Social and Environmental Sustainable Development
The concept of sustainable development has become pre-eminent in the discussions on the relationship between humankind and nature. However, it has often been noted that there appears to be no common understanding either on the definition of sustainable development or on the possible measures needed to be taken in order to achieve it. Although sustainable development also has older roots, it is usually assumed to have originated in the Brundtland Report Our Common Future by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development of 1987. In the report, sustainable development was defined as “development which meets the needs of the ...