Sustainability in transforming societies

Abstract

While the history of the concept of sustainable development can be traced back to the 19th century-and, according to Du Pisani (2006), may be even much earlier-it gained public attention after the publication of the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), better known as the Brundtland Commission (WCED, 1987). The report, titled Our common future, introduced the concept as a solution to problems caused by the technological progress and economic growth characterizing developed countries after World War II. The journal Sustainable Development was founded soon after that with the first issue published in 1993, exactly 30 years ago. The editorial article of the first issue by M. Adil Khan asserted that "the meth-

Integrating First Nations peoples' cultural capital for sustainable development

“…Although the concept of sustainable development has been known for well over 30 years, the response to it thus far has been to use more methodologies, tools and techniques in the context of economic growth, treating sustainable development as an objectified phenomenon separate from economic growth. Such thinking may have contributed to the challenges of meeting and setting the 2030 UN SDG Agenda (Dobers & Zilahy, 2023). In this light, it is paramount to pay attention to First Nations peoples' cultural capital in facilitating sustainable development because they occupy a sizeable, biologically diverse land mass, sustainability is a way of living for them and they have a strong connection with nature to support sustainable development.…”