He used this term in the sense of a responsible long-term use of a natural resource in 1713 in his work Oeconomic Forestry. Over the years since then, the concept of sustainability expanded to include all biological systems and not just forests. However, unlike the United States, the third line of argument also contains the explicit and strategic use of the concept of sustainable development in other developed countries. While official international support for sustainable development took place at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED or Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, many of its underlying concepts and principles had long been recognized in U.
Change from original page, where you can read the report as it appeared in print, and pages of text for the web version, where you can highlight and search for the text. Early fish biologists and ecologists also played an important role in advancing concepts and methods related to sustainable fish consumption and harvesting and sustainable ecosystems. The second was based on the understanding that some of the chemical and physical agents that are increasingly released into the environment due to industrial development were harmful to people and the environment, an understanding that led to events such as the original Earth Day and the formation of the EPA in 1970 and environmental laws subsequent ones based on media and pollutants. Conceptually, sustainable development emerged as a result of significant concerns about the unintended social, environmental and economic consequences of rapid population growth, economic growth and consumption of.
Many of the key principles and concepts of sustainable development are rooted in, or are similar to, the concepts of U. More obviously, sustainable development is a normative conceptual framework that is broader than the sum of U.
