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Sustainable development is an ambitious global project. The starting point of this adventure is around the mid-1980s when the United Nations launched the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), chaired by the former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, and assigned this commission to develop a concept for sustainable development. The so-called Brundtland Report, ‘Our Common Future’ (WCED 1987), is based on a broad global participatory process and has had a huge impact up to now. However, the most important step forward was the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, for the first time offering a globally agreed program for sustainable development.
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Martinuzzi, A., Meyer, W. (2016). Evaluating Sustainable Development in a Global Society. In: Stockmann, R., Meyer, W. (eds) The Future of Evaluation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137376374_6
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