The two notions appeared simultaneously around the 1970s. The concept of strategic scanning first appeared in 1967 with the publication of the founding work by Aguilar entitled Scanning the Business Environment. The origin of the idea of sustainable development dates back to 1970, when first Ignacy Sachs and then the international conference of Stockholm (in 1972) proposed the concept of ecodevelopment. This was finally replaced with “sustainable development”, in a work entitled World Conservation Strategy,presented in 1980 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The Brundtland report, published in 1987, picked up on the concept of sustainable development,.
