<P> In 1980 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature published a world conservation strategy that included one of the first references to sustainable development as a global priority and introduced the term `` sustainable development '' . Two years later , the United Nations World Charter for Nature raised five principles of conservation by which human conduct affecting nature is to be guided and judged . In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development released the report Our Common Future , commonly called the Brundtland Report . The report included what is now one of the most widely recognised definitions of sustainable development . </P>
<P> In 1980 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature published a world conservation strategy that included one of the first references to sustainable development as a global priority and introduced the term `` sustainable development '' . Two years later , the United Nations World Charter for Nature raised five principles of conservation by which human conduct affecting nature is to be guided and judged . In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development released the report Our Common Future , commonly called the Brundtland Report . The report included what is now one of the most widely recognised definitions of sustainable development . </P>
when was the term sustainable development first used
when was the term sustainable development first used
1980
1980