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“Our Common Future”, also known as the Brundtland Report, published back in 1987 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), was the basis to convoke the Earth Summit in 1992. The Summit resulted in the adoption of Agenda 21, the signature of the Rio Declaration and the establishment of the Commission on Sustainable Development. An oft-quoted definition of sustainable development is defined in the report as (World Commission on Environment and Development 1987, p. 45).
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Janasz, T. (2018). Introduction to the Dissertation. In: Paradigm Shift in Urban Mobility. Advances in Information Systems and Business Engineering. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20460-0_1
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