Our common future - 25 years later: Sustainable development WHATs, HOWs and WHOs of energy, water and environment systems

摘要

The eighties of the previous century mark a point in the history when awareness was growing about the risk for overstepping global environmental limits, the need to adapt the use of natural resources to the long-term carrying capacity of the planet, as well as about the fact that unequal opportunity and unequal distribution of resources were at the heart of the problem. The predominant thinking at that time was: It is either the environment you can protect or it is the economy you can develop, but not both at the same time.