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The concept of sustainability is similar to that of democracy, difficult to define in different social settings, elusive in its applications, yet essential to mark a landing point in the horizon of the future. Both are an ideal of socio-political behaviour yet neither can be analysed as to actual results until they have been embodied in everyday practices in different societies.
This text was first presented as a coauthored paper to the International Forum on Sustainable Development, UNESCO, Paris, 23–25 September 1991 and has not previously been published.
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The World Commission on Environment and Development (1983–1987), chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland, released the Report Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report, in October 1987, a document which coined and defined the meaning of the term ‘sustainable development’.
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Arizpe, L., Paz, F. (2014). Culture and Sustainability. In: Migration, Women and Social Development. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06572-4_14
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