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In 1975 IUCN started work on the World Conservation Strategy (1980). [9] The drafting process, and the discussions with the UN agencies involved, led to an evolution in thinking within IUCN and growing acceptance of the fact that conservation of nature by banning human presence no longer worked.
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.
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.
The World Conservation Strategy was published in 1980, becoming one of the most encouraging developments that uses a goal-oriented programme for political change concerning ecological sustainability. [12] The publication marked a fundamental policy shift for the global conservation movement.
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]
Authorities have torched at least a thousand Sengwer homes since the World Bank began financing the conservation project, according to accounts by Sengwer and human rights researchers. They have also jailed dozens of Sengwer for farming without permits and trespassing on lands that their clans have occupied “since time immemorial,” a formal ...
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 ...