Sustainable Development: Background and Context
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The debate about sustainability can be traced back into the eighteenth century. It was revived following the publication of the Brundtland Report “Our Common Future” (1987) and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (1992). Since then, interest has been focused on developing new concepts between the seemingly opposing paradigms of strong and weak sustainable development as well as on their application in practice. Moreover, sustainable development entails normative implications that affect inter- and intragenerational justice.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Sustainability Science : An Introduction |
| Editors | Harald Heinrichs, Pim Martens, Gerd Michelsen, Arnim Wiek |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Place of Publication | Dordrecht |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 5-29 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-94-017-7241-9 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-94-017-7242-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
- Sustainability Science - Sustainable development, Brundtland Report, Strong and weak sustainability, Inter- and intragenerational justice
- Sustainability sciences, Communication