Brundtland Commission Report

WCED - UN World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (also known as the Brundtland Commission Report), WCED, New York, 1987. 

The current political debate on our impact on the natural environment began with the publication of the Brundtland Commission Report Our Common Future in 1987. Within this report, its author, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, coined the concept of sustainable development. 

The appropriate technology branch of the environmental movement remained small and obscure until 1987 when the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (dubbed the Brundtland Commission for its chairperson, Gro Harlem Brundtland, then the Prime Minister of Norway) published the book-length study, Our Common Future. In essence, the Brundtland report leveled a fundamental critique at the world industrial system it was not sustainable because it was incompatible with nature. A sustainable system is one that survives or persists throughout its full expected life span. 

In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) published a report entitled Our Common Future, in which it defined Sustainable Development as Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ... 

The general opinion about the aforementioned problems and the ad hoc technical solutions is that they are by no means sufficient. The essential concept when thinking about these subjects nowadays is sustainability. It was greatly helped by the description and definition by the Brundtland report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), Our Common Future (11) ... 

Of course, the term "sustainable development" was first launched with success in a United Nations report called "Our Common Future" [1], better known as "The Brundtland Report" after the chairperson of the commission that produced it (see Figure 13.1). In this report, sustainable development is defined as a social development required to satisfy the needs of present generations without putting at risk the needs of future generations. 

Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development Our Common Future, August 4, 1987, http //www.channelingreality.com/Documents/Brundtland Searchable.pdf... 

The World Commission on Environment and Development (The Brundt-land Commission chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland) produced the report Our... 

This group of problems forms the basis of the Brundtland Report , published by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. A key role in this report is played by the concept of Sustainable Development ... 

BRUNTLAND, G., Chairman, World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our common future. The Brundtland Report, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom (1987). 

Environmental management has moved on to embrace the concept of Sustainable Development. The 1987 World Commission on Environment/ Development under the guidance of Gro Harlem Brundtland (Prime Minister of Norway) made Sustainable Development the theme of its entire report called Our Common Future. It defined Sustainable Development as development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In the UK in the mid-1990s the Department of Trade and Industry (DU) modified the definition to development which ensures a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come. ... 

This concept is the backbone of the Tokyo Declaration issued by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (UN-WCED) 1987. The report of this commission "Our common future" ("Brundtland Report") has developed the guiding principle of a "Sustainable Development", what means a lasting future effect in economy and society paying attention to comprehensive environmental points of view. 

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