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The IUCN's World Conservation Strategy (1980) was founded upon this kind of principle, and clearly announced the IUCN's ambitions to more effectively enter into dialogue with the promoters of human development.
The 1980 World Conservation Strategy of the International Union for Conservation of Nature was the first report that included a very brief chapter on a concept called "sustainable development". It focused on global structural changes and was not widely read.
Sustainability science began to emerge in the 1980s with a number of foundational publications, including the World Conservation Strategy (1980), [7] the Brundtland Commission's report Our Common Future (1987), [8] and the U.S. National Research Council’s Our Common Journey (1999). [9] [1] and has become a new academic discipline. [10]
In 1980, the World Conservation Strategy was developed by the IUCN with help from the UN Environmental Programme, World Wildlife Fund, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, and UNESCO. [65] Its purpose was to promote the conservation of living resources important to humans.
In 1991, IUCN (together with UNEP and WWF) published Caring for the Earth, a successor to the World Conservation Strategy. [8] Social aspects of conservation were now integrated in IUCN's work; at the General Assembly in 1994 the IUCN mission was redrafted to its current wording to include the equitable and ecologically use of natural resources.
1980 – Superfund (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act or CERCLA) — Earth First! founded — The Global 2000 Report to the President — International Union for Conservation of Nature publishes its World Conservation Strategy — William R. Catton Jr. publishes Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of ...
Dams, power plants, conservation programs and other projects sponsored by the World Bank have pushed millions of people out of their homes or off their lands or threatened their livelihoods. In some cases, governments supported by World Bank money have arrested, beaten and even killed people who objected to being forced from their homes ...
The World Charter for Nature was adopted by United Nations member nation-states on October 28, 1982. It proclaims five "principles of conservation by which all human conduct affecting nature is to be guided and judged." Nature shall be respected and its essential processes shall not be impaired.