]> http://bfi-internal.org/sustainability/taxonomy/term/27/0 en http://bfi-internal.org/sustainability/principles <div id="all_principles"><div id="text_title"><span id="main-title">Sustainability: The Five Core Principles</span><br /> <h3>A New Framework</h3> &copy; By Michael Ben-Eli, 2004, 2006</div> <p><img src="http://bfi-internal.org/sustainability/files/pictures/leaf2_10.jpg" hspace="10"><span id="heading_h3">Introduction</span><br><br /> The concept of "sustainable development", as coined by the World Commission on Environment and Development and with it, the term "sustainability" itself, have been gaining increasing recognition in recent years all around the world. Wide-spread use, however, has been followed by growing ambiguity so that today both terms are employed within a very broad spectrum of meaning often, to the point of trivialization.</p> Sustainability Principles Complete Text Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:16:08 -0400