Conceptualising Sustainable Supply
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Sustainability has its roots in age-old agricultural practices, but the probably best known definition is by now that of the Brundtland Report (WCED, 1987: 8), which defines sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Following this definition, sustainability has three major implications. First, recognising the limitations in the ability of the environment to support present and future needs the environment can no longer be treated as a free good. Both the use of non-renewable resources and emissions of waste to air, water or soil should be reduced to a minimum. Secondly, sustainability entails recognising human needs, especially those of people in the poorest countries. This calls for a change of values, particularly in the richer countries, to limit consumption to a level that is ecologically sustainable and that all humans can attain. If developing countries reach the same level of growth as the developed countries had after the second world war, an environmental catastrophe would be immanent. Finally, sustainability requires intergenerational equity. The planning horizon for economic activity needs to be longer than that provided by the shorttermism of the market economy. The Brundtland report thus stresses that sustainability is not just concerned with ecological issues, rather they need to be addressed simultaneously with social and economic problems, such as poverty and human rights abuses in the developing as well as unemployment and exclusion in the developed world.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004