Fostering a Sustainable Development
Overview
According to the Brundtland Commission (WECD 1987), sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generation to meet their own needs. It includes a sustainable dimension of social, economic, and environmental (Kiron et al. 2012) or people, planet, and profit (Ten Bos and Bevan 2011) dimension. Brundtland Commission goes further in explaining that meeting essential needs requires not only a new era of economic growth for nations in which the majority are poor but an assurance that those poor get their fair share of the resources required to sustain that growth. Such equity would be aided by a political system that secures effective citizens’ ...
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