Rethinking ‘our common future’: A physician’s remarks 25 years after the release of ‘Brundtland report’

Renoldner, Klaus

doi:10.1080/13623699.2013.848603

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“…As Dick et al (2018) and Ramcilovic-Suominen and Pülzl (2018) indicated in their work, sustainability can be understood as the interaction of humans with the environment and with other human beings in order to achieve environmental, social and economic advantages. The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Report, shaped a definition that has been widely accepted by the scientific community (Renoldner, 2013;Schubert and L ang, 2005;Vasconcellos Oliveira, 2018). According to this report: "Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (WCED, 1987).…”

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Facilitating sustainability transition through serious games: A systematic literature review

Stanitsas

Kirytopoulos

Vareilles

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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confidence: 99%

Facilitating sustainability transition through serious games: A systematic literature review

Stanitsas

Kirytopoulos

Vareilles

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

108

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Integrating sustainability indicators into project management: The case of construction industry

Stanitsas

Kirytopoulos

Leopoulos

2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Dynamic scenario modelling of the role and influence of Brundtland and vulnerability upon sustainability in the UK in the Anthropocene

Phillips

2023

The Anthropocene Review

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The Brundtland report and vulnerability are two of the fundamental perspectives of the environment-human system and relationship. However, the Brundtland report and its incarnations has been argued as anthropocentric in nature and fostering weak sustainability, thus resulting in vulnerability occurring. Furthermore, how the report and its incarnations has been interpreted and implemented by governments, businesses, and organisations is significant in determining sustainability outcomes. It is therefore appropriate and necessary to develop a fundamental dynamic understanding of how Brundtland and vulnerability over time may influence past and present-day sustainability outcomes at specified spatial scale. Consequently, building upon previous research, this paper develops a fundamental dynamic scenario model for the United Kingdom using the Sustainability Dynamics Framework. The model indicates that the UK has been significantly influenced by its interpretation and implementation of the Brundtland report, which has primarily focussed upon the economic and social development aspects. This has resulted in the present-day very weak to weak sustainability occurring for Brundtland-based factors, and weak unsustainability occurring for vulnerability factors. Based upon the historical and present-day modelled scenarios, the paper concludes that the UK is at a tipping point in respect to its environment-human system and relationship. A fundamental transformation is necessary to return the UK to optimum or below-optimum environment-human system thresholds and a more conducive co-evolutionary relationship. Unless this happens, then the risk of significant stress within the environment-human system will only continue to increase, with the possibility of a systemic crisis occurring, or possibly an environmental or societal collapse in the worst-case scenario.

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Rethinking ‘our common future’: A physician’s remarks 25 years after the release of ‘Brundtland report’

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Facilitating sustainability transition through serious games: A systematic literature review

Facilitating sustainability transition through serious games: A systematic literature review

Integrating sustainability indicators into project management: The case of construction industry

Dynamic scenario modelling of the role and influence of Brundtland and vulnerability upon sustainability in the UK in the Anthropocene

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