 | Edwards - 1990 - 718 pages
...balance of the system. Sustainable agriculture can be defined as a production system that meets the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those needs in the future (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). This definition does not... | |
 | Douglas Roche - 1993 - 212 pages
...the term "sustainable development," which, the Brundtland Commission explained, "seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future" (p. 40). Sustainable development is a very controversial idea and held by some, myself included, to... | |
 | Kathleen A. McCormick, Charles H. Flatter - 1994 - 193 pages
...and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations. Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future.. .But [sustainable development means] that growing economies remain firmly attached to their ecological... | |
 | Najeeb M. Al-Nauimi, Richard Meese - 1995 - 1374 pages
...the costs of environmental destruction". Sustainable development could not ignore and must meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future. Therefore, said the Commission: 10 Ibid., p. 8. 71 Ibid., pp. 8-9. "Far from requiring the cessation... | |
 | Peter McDonald, J. P. Lassoie - 1996 - 462 pages
...Common Future, defines sustainable development as a form of development or progress that "meet[s] the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future."3 This definition has formed the basis of discussion of sustainable forestry as in Canada where,... | |
 | Keith Pezzoli - 2000 - 468 pages
...WCED: sustainable development is an environmentally sound development strategy that "seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future" (WCED 1987, 40). This definition embraces the Kenyan proverb "We do not inherit the earth from our... | |
 | Douglas Roche - 1999 - 194 pages
...sustainable development is highly controversial. Its usual meaning is a development process that meets the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future. When the pressures of population growth, consumption, and pollution are viewed in their inter-relationship,... | |
 | Marc Allen Eisner - 2000 - 300 pages
...its report, entitled Our Common Future. This report noted, "Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future."7 To achieve sustainable development, economic activity (both in terms of the pace of growth... | |
 | A. Nordgren - 2001 - 304 pages
...of scientists for a 'sustainable development', ie a global economic development that meets "... the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future" (World Commission, 1 987, p. 40).7 Two important negative answers to the question whether we all, including... | |
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Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future. 
