ABSTRACT
Of course, the most well known vision of sustainability has been the one promoted within the United Nations (UN), from the Brundtland Commission to the 1992 Rio Conference and, more recently, the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in 2002 in Johannesburg. It is broadly a social democratic understanding, which states that a durable commitment to poverty eradication, delivered through inclusive governance structures and more equitable economic growth, must run alongside measures to reverse the continuing degradation of the global environment.
