Sustainability management in business enterprises

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As a result of the UNCED conference held ten years ago in Rio de Janeiro, the vision of sustainable development has become a concept of key importance to industry. Sustainable development is taken to mean development of a kind that satisfies the needs of people in the present without running the risk that people in other parts of the world or future generations will be unable to satisfy their own needs. Sustainability therefore describes a condition of human welfare in which no excess exploitation takes place and which utilizes nature on a continuous basis and avoids causing irreversible damage to nature ..