Historically,
sustainable development has arisen from a series of conferences and summits
which looking for the global solutions of 21st Century problem such as extreme
poverty, inequality, and the environmental degradation. The term of sustainable
development began to gain its popularity in the late 80’s after the Brundtland
Report (1987). The ideas expressed from Brundtland Report recognize the
dependency of humans on the environment and against human domination over
nature lives (Castro, 2004. Hopwood et al., 2005). This report defined
sustainable development as simply development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the
future generations to meet theirs.” These “inter-generational equity
principles” provide a useful basis for the future trends of Sustainable
development (Hopwood et al., 2005).