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Brundtland, G. H. (1987). Our Common Future, World Commission on Environment and Development. New York Oxford University Press. 

World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development Our Common Euture. Transmitted to the General Assembly as an Annex to document A/42/427 - Development and International Co-operation Environment. http //nnnv.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm. (Accessed May 2010). 

United Nations (1987). General Assembly Resolution 42/187. December 11,1987. Report of the world commission on environment and development, http //www.un.org/docu-ments/ga/res/42/ares42-187.htm. (accessed 01.09.10). 

NOTE The World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as "developmenf fhaf meefs fhe need of fhe present without compromising the ability of fufure generafions to meef fheir 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) ... 

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

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. ... 

What Are the Steps to Implement a Sustainability Audit Process In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) called for the development of new ways to measure and assess progress towards sustainable development (USD, 1997). The refinement of a sustainable development audit process has been ongoing since that initial call to action from the Brundtland Commission yet, to date, a fully mature audit process for assessing sustainable development has not yet emerged. Several notable efforts have been undertaken, however, which have provided a leap forward in the maturation process. 

United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development http //www.sustainable. doe.gov/overview/defrnitions.shtml (accessed 2004). 

UN World Commission On Environment and Development (headed by G.H. Bmndtland), (1987) Our Common Tuture, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

Brundtland GH (1989) Our common future the world commission on environment and development. Oxford University Press, New York... 

Lastly, Gro Harlem Brundtland, head of the World Health Organization and former prime minister of Norway and the secretary general of the World Commission on Environment and Development has noted that The obstacles to sustainability are not mainly technical. They are social, institutional and political. ... 

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 ... 

Gandhi is the one who continuously rejected the Western model of development, who once said it took the exploitation of half the globe to make Britain what it is. How many globes would it take India to do the same It was later, that this was answered indirectly, by Brundtland, the Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, who stressed that humanity would need ten Earths to allow all humans living on Earth to reach to Western levels of consumption [5]. 

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