TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Looking to the Future: Sustainability and Other Issues A1 - Spengler, John D. A1 - Purcell, Wendy M. A2 - Boulton, Matthew L. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2022 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e AB - Sustainability is a goal for today and sustainable development an organizing principle that recognizes the interconnections between complex natural and social systems. Sustainability is a dialectical concept, like beauty and justice, and can be difficult to define, yet most will agree that it is an aspiration with Sustainable Development the means to deliver that end. The most widely accepted definition of sustainability is that determined by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) published in 1987 in a report entitled “Our Common Future” by the Brundtland Commission; Gro Harlem Brundtland (Fig. 80-1), the former Prime Minister of Norway, led the Commission given her strong background in the sciences and public health. Her report strongly influenced the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 and the 3rd United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182674279 ER -