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Tradition refers to any custom, opinion, practice, or belief handed down to posterity usually in an unwritten form. Tradition is probably as old as early human cultures and it is a method of teaching that transmitted knowledge from one generation to the next. Sustainable development was prescribed as a concept by Brown (1981) and in 1987, the Brundtland report, “Our Common Future” defined it as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Láng 1993). Since then, sustainable development and sustainability have been the subject of several publications in environmental and social sciences (Lemons and Brown 1995; Westra and Lemons 1995). According to Goodland (1994), three types of sustainability should be recognized and these are, (i) social sustainability (SS), (ii) economic sustainability (ECS) and (iii) ecological sustainability (ES).
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Victor, R. (1998). Traditional Sustainability: A Case Study of Floodplain Fisheries Management in West Africa. In: Lemons, J., Westra, L., Goodland, R. (eds) Ecological Sustainability and Integrity: Concepts and Approaches. Environmental Science and Technology Library, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1337-5_11
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