EL ECODESARROLLO COMO CONCEPTO PRECURSOR DEL DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE Y SU INFLUENCIA EN AMERICA LATINA

Abstract

The article works on the assumption that at the beginning of global environmental policy debate in the 1970s, immediately arose a strong North-South debate on how to understand this problem. The South, insisted that protecting the environment and achieving full development for the underdeveloped world were two inseparable aspects when addressing the issue of environmental crisis. In this sense, a concept first joined these two ideas of environment and development was the eco-development, deepened and theorized by Ignacy Sachs, but it was immediately picked up and socialized by Latin American intellectuals and institutions participating in the debate. In this sense, the ecodevelopment was precursor to the later concept of sustainable development, generated in 1987 by the Brundtland Commission, which permanently joined to the ideas of environment and development.