Our Common Future

Our Common Future was the third in a series of important UN initiatives the first being the Brandt Commission s North-South A Program for Survival and Common Crisis - North-South Co-operation for World Recovery, which spelt out the extent of the mutual interests between north and south and appealed for a program to avert disaster for the poorest countries, the need for 

This way, the report became the catalyst for global thinking processes about the relationship between man and nature and about future prospects of mankind in the potentially conflicting contexts of ethics, state policies and social, ecological and economical interests. In 1992, the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), more commonly known as the 

Rio Earth Summit, established a number of initiatives to promote the uptake of sustainable development worldwide  

The Convention on Biological Diversity with three main goals  

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, reaffirming the Declaration of the UN Conference adopted at Stockholm, 1972. 

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Brmidtlaiid, G. (1987). Our Common Future. New York Oxford Unn ersity Press. 

World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, 1987, Oxford University Press, New York. 

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. 

Brundtland, G.H. Our Common Future, The World Commission on Environmental Development, Oxford University Press Oxford, U.K., 1987. 

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. ... 

International Conference on Environment and Economics (OECD). Concludes that the environment and economics should be mutually reinforcing. Helped to shape Our Common Future. 

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. ... 

There are many different ways of looking at the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development and the impact on the role of business and industry. However, there are, in our opinion, no major substantial differences between CSR as we have described it in this report and sustainable development as it originally was presented in Our Common Future. Or to put it another way every aspect of CSR should already be covered by sustainable development (DNV, 2002). 

G.G. Lebel, H. Kane. Sustainable Development A Guide to Our Common Future—The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Global Tomorrow Coalition, Washington, DC, 1989. 

World commission on Environmental and Development Our Common future. University Press, Oxford, 1987. 

G. Brundtland, ed., Our Common Future, The World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987, http //www.worldinbalance.net/agreements/1987-brundtland.html http // www.un-documents.net/ocf-ov.htm (retrieved 31.07.2008). 

G. H. Brunddand, How to Secure our Common Future, Scientific American,... 

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