ABSTRACT
The adoption of the language of ‘sustainable development’ – the idea that development that the needs of the present should be met ‘without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ was not widely accepted until the late 1980s (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987: 43). Indeed, a significant amount of voluntary sector campaigning activity in the second half of the twentieth century has been geared towards
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