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" Development (1987, p.8) defines sustainable development as: . . . development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. "
Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations - Page 91
by Edward A. Page - 2007 - 304 pages
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Code of Federal Regulations: Containing a Codification of Documents of ...

2001 - 476 pages
...and sustainedyield without impairment to the productivity of the land. Sustainability means meeting needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Planning contributes to social and economic sustainability without compromising...
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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

2004 - 476 pages
...and sustainedyield without impairment to the productivity of the land. Sustainability means meeting needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Planning contributes to social and economic sustainability without compromising...
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EPA Journal, Volumes 18-19

1992 - 370 pages
...and environmental quality. In its broad definition, sustainable development is economic development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This is a goal that all welcome. But many people mistakenly believe that "meeting...
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Interparliamentary Union Conference: Report of the United States Delegation ...

United States. Delegation to the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union, 79th, 1988, Guatemala City, Guatemala - 1988 - 48 pages
...and Development entitled "Our Common Future", Emphasizing that sustainable development means meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, Urges Parliaments, Governments, the public and private sectors and the agencies...
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The Age of Ecology: The Environment on CBC Radio's Ideas

David Cayley - 1991 - 292 pages
...Brundtland Commission made a stab at a definition. They defined as sustainable, "development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs." But this only transformed the vexing problem of how to define sustainabiliry...
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Saving Our Planet: Challenges and hopes

Mostafa K. Tolba - 1992 - 306 pages
...would lead to what I called in 1974 'development without destruction'—or sustainable development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy theirs. This report analyses the changes (both positive and negative) that occurred in the...
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The Right to Development in International Law

Subrata Roy Chowdhury, Erik M. G. Denters, Paul J. I. M. de Waart - 1992 - 450 pages
...International Law Association has a creative role to perform. Sustainable development means development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In other words, the principle of intergenerational equity, which is of the...
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Canada and the World: Agenda for the Last Decade of the Millennium

Anatol Rapoport, Anthony Rapoport - 1992 - 148 pages
...ten metres per second, he/she cannot keep it up. A people -oriented sustainable development is one that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. By a "just global social order" we mean one in which the tight interdependence...
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Chronicles of the Doon Valley, an Environmental Exposé

Prem K. Thadhani - 1993 - 272 pages
...and water quality caused by industrial pollutants, and so on. 12. Sustainable development: Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to repeat the process. 13. Supremacy of nature over man: The idea that while man can mutate nature...
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Environmental Regulation of Oil and Gas

Zhiguo Gao, Chih-Kuo Kao - 1998 - 652 pages
...sustainable development, as defined in international law, may be simply stated as a conditionality that "meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'.104 This principle has crucial, but largely unrecognised implications for...
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