Brundtland report

Tropical rainforests and biological diversity had been a great concern at the time of the Brundtland report. Back in 1987, 900 million ha were left of the 1.6 billion original cover. Since then, we have lost over 200 million ha of rainforests, practically one-fourth of what existed then. Now, we have less than half of the original cover around 43% [3]. 

Brundtland report, 24 162 Brush aerators, 26 162 Brushing, of staple-fiber nonwoven fabrics, 17 515-516... 

One of the major themes in the Brundtland Report was a concept now known in green chemistry as atom economy (also sometimes known as atom utilization), the notion that chemical manufacturing should attempt to conserve as much of the raw materials (and, hence, atoms) with which it begins as possible and to prevent losing materials (and, hence, atoms) to the environment during manufacturing processes. 

Another concept which has become the focus of attention, both in industry and society at large, in the last decade or more is that of sustainable development first introduced in the Brundtland report [23] in the late 1980s and defined as ... 

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. 

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. 

Our Common Future Brundtland Report. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development weaves together social, economic, cultural, and environmental issues and global solutions. Chaired by Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. Popularizes term sustainable development. ... 

Sustainable development was originally defined in the Brundtland report Our Common Future in 1987 as follows Sustainable Development should meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable Development balances three principal requirements ... 

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 ... 

Sustainable Manufacturing has been defined by the International Trade Administration under the US Department of Commerce as ... the creation of manufactured products that use processes that minimize negative environmental impacts, conserve energy and natural resources, are safe for employees, communities, and consumers and are economically sound" (USDOC 2012). The US National Council for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) contrasts this definition with the UN definition of a sustainable development given in the Brundtland report as a Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future... 

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

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. 

Since 1987 and the publication of the Brundtland Report by the World Conunission on Environment and Development, a new phrase has become the slogan of our contemporary societies sustainable development (Brundtland 1987). The ideas covered by this new concept were not entirely original, but the expression and the definition proposed in the UN report dissraninated widely. Since the Rio Summit in 1992, sustainable development has become a global canse and the phrase think globally, act locally , the new mantra of the late twentieth century. 

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