Progresso, Desenvolvimento Sustentável e abordagens diversas de desenvolvimento: uma sucinta revisão de literatura

As the result of a literature review, this article aims to discuss the notion of Sustainable Development (SD) through its antecedents, emergency, criticism and advances. Our main objective is to comprehend the necessity of new development conceptions, not restricted to the economical sphere. To reach that scope, we present the notion of progress in the basis of economic theories and developmental approaches of the XX century. From the beginning of the socio-environmental crisis, in the 1970’s, we point out to those theories which tried to integrate economic growth, social equity and environmental harmony,