ABSTRACT
First coined in 1982 at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Parks Congress in Bali, the term ‘sustainable development’ was an attempt by conservation biologists and practitioners to integrate the goals of conservation with human and economic development, particularly in the developing world. Science, and more specifically the then emerging field of conservation biology, was viewed as crucial to revealing the societal and environmental benefits of conservation and providing knowledge to assist in the management of protected areas (Hughes-Evans and Aldrich 1983).
