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From sustainability to resilience: a paradigm shift
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Llewellyn |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Despite inherent definitional and interpretational difficulties the term ‘sustainability’ is widely used in contemporary economic, social and environmental discourse to describe a desirable endgame. Although the term was popularized in the 1987 report Our Common Future published by the World Commission on Environment and Development (also known as the Brundtland report), its origins can be traced back to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972 (UNEP). This declaration, although the title refers to the human environment, acknowledged the importance of the environment in achieving human well-being. More importantly, it drew attention to the “growing evidence of man-made harm in many regions of the earth: dangerous levels of pollution in water, air, earth and living beings; major and undesirable disturbances to the ecological balance of the biosphere; destruction and depletion of irreplaceable resources; and gross-deficiencies, harmful to the physical and mental and social health of man, in the man-made environment...” (UNEP 1972:1). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/bitstream/handle/10204/8305/Van%20Wyk1_2015.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
