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Norms and Values for Sustainable Development

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Introduction

Environmental problems are related to the development of the humankind society. Along with its history, humans have utilized the natural resources to develop tools and technologies and improve their quality of life. However, with the exponential population growth, the need for the exploitation of the natural resources also increased on an unprecedented scale (Schmitz and Rocha 2018). The humans’ actions affected the environment and harmed it at several levels, promoting its degradation. In this way, considering that the natural resources do not regenerate that fast as they are consumed and the future of the humankind, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) (1987) proposed a new concept of development, i.e., a sustainable development. This development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change for society. In accordance with the WCED, sustainable development is generally defined as a “development that meets the...

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I would like to acknowledge the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria and the funding agencies CNPq, Capes, Finep, and FAPERGS.

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  1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação em Ciências: Química da Vida e Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil

    Gabriela L. Schmitz

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

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    Ingrid Molderez

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Schmitz, G.L. (2019). Norms and Values for Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_410

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