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The concept of sustainability, or sustainable development, was one of the key ideas motivating the evolution of thinking during the 1990s about the possibilities for a new international instrument in the area of culture. Interest in sustainability was especially relevant to developing countries. It was becoming increasingly clear that the pre-eminence of industrialized countries in determining the way the global economy works and their domination of markets for cultural goods and services was exacerbating the economic and cultural disadvantage suffered by poorer countries. These problems were clearly related to trade and globalization issues; the impacts both of liberalization of trade in cultural goods and of globalization processes more generally were being felt in the developing world with particular severity. Cultural exports from developing countries were being swallowed up in the global market place, while at the same time these countries had few resources to protect their own cultural diversity from the penetration of cultural influences originating beyond their borders. These concerns were exacerbated in low-income countries by the generally slow pace of economic development and by the failure of development strategies to come to grips with the underlying problems that were holding back economic, social and cultural growth. In these circumstances it was thought that some form of international agreement on culture and development could be one way of identifying the specific needs of these countries and of proposing remedies.
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Meadows, D. H. et al. (1972). The limits to growth: a report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New York: Universe Books; see also, Carson, R. (1965). Silent spring. Harmondsworth: Penguin; and Mishan, E. J. (1967). The costs of economic growth. London: Staples Press.
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World Commission on Environment and Development (1987). Our common future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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World Commission on Environment and Development (1987). Our common future. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 43.
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See for example Sen, A. (1990). Development as capacity expansion. In K. Griffin, & J. Knight (Eds), Human development and the international development strategy for the 1990s (pp. 41–58). London: Macmillan.
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World Commission on Culture and Development (1995). Our creative diversity. Paris: UNESCO.
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UNESCO (1998). World Culture Report, 1998. Culture, creativity and markets. Paris: UNESCO; UNESCO (2000). World Culture Report, 2000. Cultural diversity, conflict and pluralism. Paris: UNESCO.
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UNESCO Doc. CLT-98/Conf.210/5 of 31 August 1998.
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UNESCO Doc. CLT/CPD/2004/CONF-201/2 of July 2004, Preamble recital 2.
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UNESCO Doc. CLT/CPD/2004/CONF-201/2 of July 2004, Article 2 para. 7.
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UNESCO Doc. CLT/CPD/2004/CONF.607/1 of December 2004, Part III, p. 4.
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UNESCO Doc. CLT/CPD/2004/CONF.607/1 of December 2004, Part III, p. 26.
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UNESCO Doc. CLT/CPD/2004/CONF.607/6 of 23 December 2004.
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See comment on Article 2 by Toshiyuki Kono.
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For a link to the Operational Guidelines on the Integration of Culture in Sustainable Development, see Annex of this Commentary.
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Throsby, D. (2008). Culture in sustainable development: insights for the future implementation of Article 13. Paris: UNESCO. UNESCO Doc. CE/08/Throsby/Art.13 of January 2008; see UNESCO Doc. CE/08/2.IGC/5 of 25 September 2008.
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Throsby, D. (2008). Culture in sustainable development: insights for the future implementation of Article 13. Paris: UNESCO. UNESCO Doc. CE/08/Throsby/Art.13 of January 2008; see UNESCO Doc. CE/08/2.IGC/5 of 25 September 2008.
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See further in Throsby, D. (2001). Economics and culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Throsby, D. (2008). The concentric circles model of the creative industries. Cultural Trends, 17(3), 147–164.
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UNESCO Doc. CE/09/2.EXT.IGC/208/5 of 18 February 2009, Annex II, pp. 10–12.
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For a link to the Operational Guidelines on the Integration of Culture in Sustainable Development, see Annex of this Commentary.
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See also on this topic, the comment on Article 10 by Martin Gerner.
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Throsby, D. (2012). Article 13: Integration of Culture in Sustainable Development. In: von Schorlemer, S., Stoll, PT. (eds) The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25995-1_15
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