“可持续发展”一词,最早是在1972年斯德哥尔世环大会上正式提出来的,当时响应者寥寥。15年后,(1987)挪威首相布伦特兰夫人等人在《我们共同的未来》一书中再次明确提出来,并将其内涵界定为:“既满足当代人的需求,又不损害子孙后代人满足其需求能力的发展”。作为一种发展模式和战略目标,这个定义在1990年6月召开的“联合国环境 The term ”sustainable development“ was first put forward formally at the 1972 Stockholm Ring Conference, when there were only a handful of respondents. Fifteen years later (1987), the Prime Minister of Norway, Mrs. Brundtland, and others once again made it clear in his book, Our Common Future, and defined its connotation as: ”Meeting the needs of the present without compromising Future generations to meet the needs of their ability to develop. “ As a development model and a strategic goal, this definition was held in June 1990 in the ”United Nations Environment