...appropriately managed technology. Sustainable development is a process of change in which resource use, direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future and present needs. It means focusing on the interrelationships among population...

...options, both for current and future generations. The basic tenet of sustainable development is that the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments,...technological development and institutional change, should meet present needs without denying the needs and options of future generations. Strategies for...

...means. The Commission concluded: sustainable development is not a fixed state of harmony, but rather a process of change in which the exploitation of resources,...technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as present needs. We do not pretend that the process is easy or...

...functioning of ecosystems will have a negative effect on economic growth. Sustainable development entails a process of change in which the exploitation of resources,...development and institutional change are all in harmony with efforts to maintain the functioning of natural ecosystems, both to meet human needs and preserve...

...cause and effect of global environmental problems.42 The Commission's approach to development involves "a process of change in which the exploitation of...technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as present needs."43 A singular position for aboriginal peoples...

...painful choices: Yet in the end, sustainable development is not a fixed state of harmony, but rather a process of change in which the exploitation of resources,...technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future and well as present needs. We do not pretend that the process is easy or...

...of scientific experiment); 2. Sustainable development, defined not as a fixed state of harmony, but as a process of change in which the exploitation of...technological development, and institutional change are constantly readjusted to reconcile present and future needs. Sustainable development is a process of...

...generations. —IUCN/UNEP/WWF: World Conservation Strategy (1981) In essence, sustainable development is a process of change in which the exploitation of resources,...orientation of technological development, and institutional changes are all in harmony. — WCED: Our Common Future (1987) Environment and Economics For society...

...current generation "without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" and as "a process of change in which the exploitation...technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as present needs."26 The commission added that a standard of living...

...Environment and Development (The Brundtland Report) (WCED 1987). Sustainable development is defined as ... a process of change in which the exploitation...technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as present needs. (Chap. 2, p. 4.) The general nature of this definition...