The globalisation of environmentalism - The evolution of global discourse on environment and development - The Brundtland report and the 1980s

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Which concept hugely influenced policy changes throughout the 1980s?

Neoliberalism, the idea that deregulation and free and open markets are the best ways to organise global economy

Where can the fundament for the market liberal view be found?

In the neoliberalist discourse that took place during the 1980s

What was the influence of the Brundtland report "Our common future"?

It changed the discourse of global environmentalism by charting the middle ground between North and South and between the institutionalists and market liberal views on growth and the bioenvironmentalists and social greens views on that topic.
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What did the Brundtland report conclude?

That there are not necesarily limits to growth, so further economic growth and industralisation don't necessarily negatively impact the environment. However, poverty, created by the place of developing economies in the global structure, harms the environment as much as industralisation. Therefore economic growth and development is necessary. BUT: in a sustainable way. So: sustainable development.

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