Article | REF: G8000 V1

Sustainable Development: Introduction

Authors: Bertrand SWIDERSKI, Nicolas REBERT

Publication date: July 10, 2012 | Lire en français

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    2. Challenges to the current model

    Our development model is facing a host of new environmental, social and economic challenges. These must be taken into account by governments and organizations if they are to maintain the material comfort of Western countries while enabling developing countries to access it.

    2.1 Growing needs in a finite world

    Each individual consumes more products and services every year (+ 4.6% in durable goods for a French person, such as a television set, dishwasher, telephone, etc. in 2009). ). Each product or service exerts an environmental pressure, measured...

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