 | Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea - 1987 - 764 pages
...regard that the v.'orld corrmission on Environment and Development had defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present...future generations to meet their own needs" . The convention on the Law of the Sea incorporates a system of exploitation which could contribute to sustainable... | |
 | Sven-Olof Ryding - 1992 - 802 pages
...process of sustainable development." Sustainable development, a key issue through the entire work, was defined as "development that meets the needs of the...of future generations to meet their own needs". The report clearly indicated that the attainment of sustainable development deal with the interrelationship... | |
 | Richard N. Gardner - 1992 - 100 pages
...Commission on Environment and Development chaired by Prime Minister Gro Harlem Bruntland of Norway as development that "meets the needs of the present...of future generations to meet their own needs." The Rio meeting, of course, was not the first global conference to deal with environmental issues. The... | |
 | 1995 - 184 pages
...Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN Background Brief Sustainable development is most often defined as development that meets the needs of the...of future generations to meet their own needs. The technology that we use to transform energy and materials into goods and services determines the amount... | |
 | Ian Goldin, L. Alan Winters - 1995 - 338 pages
...Does sustainability require growth? RICHARD BALDWIN 1 Introduction 'Sustainable development' is often defined as development that meets the needs of the...of future generations to meet their own needs. The conveniently flexible word 'needs' renders this definition inoperable. To economists 'sustainability'... | |
 | Alan Gilpin - 1995 - 204 pages
...sustained increase in the level of human welfare. The Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as development that 'meets the needs of the present...of future generations to meet their own needs'. The objective is seen by most as desirable; the debate is how to pursue it. Does it not just mean 'business... | |
 | Ronald E. Hester, Roy M. Harrison - 1995 - 178 pages
...'Sustainable development' was defined in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development17 as 'development that meets the needs of the present...of future generations to meet their own needs'. The concept of the sustainable landfill as an appropriate method of waste treatment has been proposed recently.15... | |
 | Satya Dev Gupta - 1997 - 372 pages
...that will bring with it constructive reforms for the renewal of society. Sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the...of future generations to meet their own needs. The needs of the world's poor and the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and by social... | |
 | Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder - 1997 - 532 pages
...quickly. The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) defined "sustainable development" as "development that meets the needs of the present...of future generations to meet their own needs". The term has been criticized as ambiguous and open to a wide range of interpretations, many of which are... | |
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Commission defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 
