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Special Issue “Faith and Sustainable Development: Exploring Practice, Progress and Challenges among Faith Communities and Institutions”: Foreword by the President of Ireland

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  • Michael D. Higgins

    (Áras an Uachtaráin, Phoenix Park, D08E1W3 Dublin, Ireland
    Uachtarán na hÉireann/President of Ireland.)

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While the concept of sustainable development has a history of more than 50 years now, with origins dating back to the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, it would take the publication of the influential 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future , or the ‘Bruntland Report’ as it is commonly known (named after its chairperson, the then-prime minister of Norway) before the term’s use became more widespread [...]

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  • Michael D. Higgins, 2023. "Special Issue “Faith and Sustainable Development: Exploring Practice, Progress and Challenges among Faith Communities and Institutions”: Foreword by the President of Ireland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-3, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:12:p:9683-:d:1172946
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