THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS

摘要

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2236130812618 This article objectives to realize a theoretical review about the principal events that led to the genesis of environmental consciousness in the modern world. So, does a concise historical and political research about the intergovernmental conference under UN auspices since 1970, going through the Stockholm Conference, Rio-92, and finally, the recent Rio+20. Moreover, points out the main obstacles, challenges and contradictions imposed to the achieving of the sustainability as planetary purpose. The understanding of the processes that culminated in the emergence of environmental issues on a global level, from the historicity of sustainability, as well as the measures taken to cope the environmental crisis is a crucial step to any researcher in the field, in order to avoid the inaccurate approaches question. This is a required reading for the ones who enters in discussions about the sustainability of development, whether at the local, regional, national or global. Critically understand the historical, political and social processes of the sustainability will enable to overcome a weakened vision, myopic and misleading in the analysis, evaluation and treatment of environmental ills of modernity.