00911naa a2200181 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000110006024500540007126000090012550000190013452004410015365300160059465300150061065300180062565300190064377300670066210857832012-06-27       2000    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aEpagri  aThe concept of sustainable development revisited.  c2000  aISSN, 12331821  aThe concept of sustainable development is here revised in the light of a brief historical analysis, followed by a semantic analysis of the expressions development and sustainability. The authors criticize the common use of this concept in a loose way or in wide generalizations, to conclude, based on the principles of human ecology, that it is only possible to make it operational in limited spans of time and in limited spatial units.  aDevelopment  aGeosystems  aHuman ecology  aSustainability  tFoundations of Science, Holandagv. 5, n. 3, p. 261-268, 2000.