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Sustainable Development

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The most commonly used definition of Sustainable Development is: 'Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'.

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Sustainable Development

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Maintaining Profits or Sustaining People & Planet?

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Sustainable Development and the Law

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The South African Constitution gives everyone the right ‘to have the environment protected… through reasonable legislative and other measures that secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiabl

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Sustainable Development ~ A Scorecard of Progress & Pitfalls

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There is no doubt that business is doing far more than ever before to tackle the sustainability challenge. Evidence appears in plain sight: a plethora of voluntary codes, management systems by the truckload, volumes of sustainability reports, sociall

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Sustainable Development ~ A Spiritual Imperative

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All religions recognise and acknowledge the need to care for the natural environment. It is all the more surprising that they have, until recently, been significantly quiet in the face of growing environmental deterioration. There is, however, a new

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Sustainable Development ~ Education

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The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) was initiated at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, where everyone agreed that without education, sustainable development will remain nothing

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Sustainable Development ~ Land Reform

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From model apartheid village to a model for sustainable development - that is the story of Franschhoek, the historic village nestled in the mountain valley where the French Huguenots were settled in the 17th century.

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Sustainable Development ~ Maintaining Profits or Sustaining People & Planet

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Sustainable development is widely advocated as the way to deal with the issues that fill the pages of this publication. The concept is, however, hard to apply in practice, and easy to manipulate.

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Sustainable Development ~ Manufacturing

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Sustainable development must become an inherent part of the culture of any company if it is to thrive over the long term.

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Sustainable Development ~ The Banking & Finance Sector

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The 1990s heralded the concept of globalisation and there was a growing awareness that companies had a role to play in sustainable development and that their activities had global ramifications.

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