
%0 Journal Article
%A F. Recher, Harry 
%T Forestry, cultural ecology and ecological sustainability
%J Pacific Conservation Biology
%D 1998/03/10
%V 4
%N 1
%P 1-2
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PC980001
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PC980001 
%X For the past decade, the world has been told that ecologically sustainable development is the hope for the future: using only what we need without comprising the opportunities and needs of future generations. Across the Pacific, the concept has been embraced by all levels of government, by non-government conservation groups, by industry, by the media, and by conservation biologists. A former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, even went so far during a re-election campaign as to commit the Australian Government and the Australian people to the ecologically sustainable development of the Australian continent. 
