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Foreword OPENDOI: 10.1515/igbp-2017-0001PAPERS on GLOBAL CHANGE, 24, 9–10, 2017FOREWORDThere is much now to indicate that contemporary trends in civilisational developmentare reflecting the mutual impacts of two main factors, i.e. global change and the conceptof sustainable development. Any more accurate reading of those trends requires, notmerely that the factors involved are perceived, but also that the nature of the mutuallinkages between them be recognised. For what we have in the first case are the dynamics,scope and consequences of global economic, social and natural transformations ona scale not hitherto encountered during the history of our planet. On the other hand, inthe second case what is involved is adaptation to such a concept for development as willensure a balance between humankind’s civilisational aspirations and the safeguarding ofnature in the longer (indeed the very long) term. The kind of equilibrium being referredto here can only be achieved at all where the initiatives pursued by a local communityalso take account of the global perspective.The particular circumstance of a meeting that reflected upon ongoing global changesand on the sustainable-development concept is that it leads to the publication hereof texts marking the 30th anniversary of the publication of the so-called “BrundtlandReport”. This is taking place in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Papers on Global Change IGBP de Gruyter

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OPENDOI: 10.1515/igbp-2017-0001PAPERS on GLOBAL CHANGE, 24, 9–10, 2017FOREWORDThere is much now to indicate that contemporary trends in civilisational developmentare reflecting the mutual impacts of two main factors, i.e. global change and the conceptof sustainable development. Any more accurate reading of those trends requires, notmerely that the factors involved are perceived, but also that the nature of the mutuallinkages between them be recognised. For what we have in the first case are the dynamics,scope and consequences of global economic, social and natural transformations ona scale not hitherto encountered during the history of our planet. On the other hand, inthe second case what is involved is adaptation to such a concept for development as willensure a balance between humankind’s civilisational aspirations and the safeguarding ofnature in the longer (indeed the very long) term. The kind of equilibrium being referredto here can only be achieved at all where the initiatives pursued by a local communityalso take account of the global perspective.The particular circumstance of a meeting that reflected upon ongoing global changesand on the sustainable-development concept is that it leads to the publication hereof texts marking the 30th anniversary of the publication of the so-called “BrundtlandReport”. This is taking place in the

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Published: Dec 20, 2017

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