SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Literacy in Iran

[Environment, health and sustainable development].

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Transforming health through sustainable development.

At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, held Sept. 25–27, 2015, world leaders formally adopted 17 “sustainable development goals” (SDGs) to guide global development efforts over the next 15 years (2015–2030).1 The goals build on the “millennium development goals” adopted in 2000 by 189 member states to reduce global inequities in health, education and human development. Compared w...

Climate change, human health, and sustainable development.

Human-induced climate change threatens ecosystems and human health on a global scale. In order to withstand the worldwide threats to ecosystems, the concept of sustainable development was introduced during the 1980s. Since then, this concept has been widely applied to guide and focus policy-making. The present article reviews the health consequences of human-induced climate change on sustainabl...