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Intangible Assets and Sustainable Development

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Nonphysical assets and sustainability

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According to the World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), “sustainable development” means “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (World Commission on Environment and Development 1987). The definition makes an important assumption that humans are the subjects. In other words, the needs of the present human generation are met without compromising the future human generations’ needs. In short, sustainable development integrates the economic, social, and environmental objectives of society, in order to make human being better off without taking off the resources the people need in the future.

The definition in the previous paragraph has two dimensions: the idea of making life better (development) and sustainable (maintain). Bell and Morse (2003) said sustainable development is all about an improvement in the human condition.

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  1. School of Professional Education and Executive Development, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Tai Ming Wut

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

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  1. Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Patrizia Lombardi

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Wut, T.M. (2019). Intangible Assets and Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_319

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