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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future
Author | : Iris Borowy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-12-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135961298 |
The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and development, the Brundtland Report changed sustainable development from a physical notion to one based on social, economic and environmental issues. This book positions the Brundtland Commission as a key event within a longer series of international reactions to pressing problems of global poverty and environmental degradation. It shows that its report, "Our Common Future", published in 1987, covered much more than its definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" for which it became best known. It also addressed a long list of issues which remain unresolved today. The book explores how the work of the Commission juggled contradictory expectations and world views, which existed within the Commission and beyond, and drew on the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile profound differences. The result was both an immense success and disappointment. Coining an irresistibly simple definition enabled the Brundtland Commission to place sustainability firmly on the international agenda. This definition gained acceptability for a potentially divisive concept, but it also diverted attention from underlying demands for fundamental political and social changes. Meanwhile, the central message of the Commission – the need to make inconvenient sustainability considerations a part of global politics as much as of everyday life – has been side-lined. The book thus assesses to what extent the Brundtland Commission represented an immense step forward or a missed opportunity.
Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development Acting as Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Author | : United Nations. Commission on Sustainable Development |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sustainable development |
ISBN | : |
Institutionalizing the Earth Summit
Author | : Kathryn G. Sessions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Agenda 21 |
ISBN | : |
Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development Acting as the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Author | : United Nations. Commission on Sustainable Development |
Publisher | : |
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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future
Author | : Iris Borowy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2013-12-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135961220 |
The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and development, the Brundtland Report changed sustainable development from a physical notion to one based on social, economic and environmental issues. This book positions the Brundtland Commission as a key event within a longer series of international reactions to pressing problems of global poverty and environmental degradation. It shows that its report, "Our Common Future", published in 1987, covered much more than its definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" for which it became best known. It also addressed a long list of issues which remain unresolved today. The book explores how the work of the Commission juggled contradictory expectations and world views, which existed within the Commission and beyond, and drew on the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile profound differences. The result was both an immense success and disappointment. Coining an irresistibly simple definition enabled the Brundtland Commission to place sustainability firmly on the international agenda. This definition gained acceptability for a potentially divisive concept, but it also diverted attention from underlying demands for fundamental political and social changes. Meanwhile, the central message of the Commission – the need to make inconvenient sustainability considerations a part of global politics as much as of everyday life – has been side-lined. The book thus assesses to what extent the Brundtland Commission represented an immense step forward or a missed opportunity.
Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development Acting as the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Author | : United Nations. Commission on Sustainable Development |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Sustainable development |
ISBN | : |
Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development Acting as Preparatory Body for the Special Session of the General Assembly for the Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
Author | : United Nations. Commission on Sustainable Development |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : |
Agenda 21
Author | : United Nations |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03-03 |
Genre | : Agenda 21 |
ISBN | : 9781482672770 |
Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Its purpose is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels. The "21" in Agenda 21 refers to the 21st century.
Commission on Sustainable Development
Author | : United Nations Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780119869446 |
Commission on Sustainable Development