SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ITS MEANING, PERCEPTION, AND IMPLEMENTATION
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ITS MEANING, PERCEPTION, AND IMPLEMENTATION

Summary/Abstract: A critical review of open literature and of institutional reports is given on the current discourse on 'sustainable development' (SD), and to its ascendant term 'sustainability' (SB). Results of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, which reiterated its commitment to Agenda 21, did show the differences between the developed North, who favors environmental issues, and the less developed South, whose primary problems are development and equity in resource use. One of the major problems is also absence of a clear distinction between science and policy advice, which results in politicization of science. In the second part of the paper the environmental issues are discussed for the concept of 'sustainable tourism' and for 'ecotourism', a development activity considered of prime importance for economic advancement of Croatia, in particular for its Adriatic coastal regions.

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