NATURAL RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: From 'Good Intentions' to 'Good Consequences'
Article from: OGEL 1 (2004), in In the Spotlight
Introduction
Sustainable development, meaning 'development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations', must be one of the most successful, widely accepted and influential conceptual formulations of the last two decades. It has become a 'mantra', ie an automatically recited reference, much in the form of the famous preambles of UN General Assembly resolutions, to claim legitimacy, modernity and moral goodness for views, arguments and positions in almost every field of academic analysis, political statement and organisational self-praise and ...