Abstract
The term 'sustainable development' has largely been promulgated by the
industrialized nations in the context of global environmental processes
and concerns, and it has catalyzed attention on the relationship between
economic growth and the natural resource base on which this depends
(Redclift 1987). Although the term has been used in a variety of ways
since its early conceptualizations in the 1980s (see e.g. Murdoch et al.
1994:263; Langhelle 2000:306; Lockie et al. 2006:31), broadly speaking, the
notion of sustainable development highlights the existence of the social
and ecological conditions necessary to support human life at a certain
level of well being through future generations (Earth Council 1994).