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During the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Agenda 21, a negotiated plan of action, linked together development and the environment as “sustainable development” (Pearce & Warford, 1993). The argument is that sustainable development is good and desirable for the entire world, including and most particularly for the “underdeveloped” world. This redefinition of conservation within a development paradigm translates nature into something with monetary value.
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Isla, A. (2015). Greening Costa Rica. In: Mitchell, R.C., Moore, S.A. (eds) Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-214-1_4
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