RT Book, Section
A1 Spengler, John D.
A1 Purcell, Wendy M.
A2 Boulton, Matthew L.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182674279
T1 Looking to the Future: Sustainability and Other Issues
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644511
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182674279
RD 2024/04/23
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.