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December 1995
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Technology in Society
This paper examines the modern philosophical background of the idea of sustainable development, especially as it has been articulated by the World Commission on Environment and Development in the document entitled Our Common Future (1987). We argue that this document is not nearly as radical as is sometimes supposed, but in fact only extends the principles of the economics of scarcity into the realm of environmental ecology.
... However, it was the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) that put the notion of 'sustainable development' on the global agenda more than three decades ago (WCED, 1987). Several objections have been raised against this concept as articulated by the WCED, but its ambiguity was probably one of the main reasons for its worldwide acceptance (Mitcham, 1995;Tijmes & Luijf, 1995). Sustainability is also intrinsically difficult to operationalize, enforce, and measure under specific circumstances and in concrete social-ecological systems (Ostrom, 2009;Lockie, 2016;Orenstein & Shach-Pinsley, 2017). ...
December 1995
Technology in Society
