Sustainable Development Research Advances

Download or read book Sustainable Development Research Advances written by Barton A. Larson and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development has been defined as balancing the fulfilment of human needs with the protection of the Natural environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future. The term was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need." The field of sustainable development can be conceptually broken into four constituent parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability and political sustainability. This new book presents the latest research in the field.