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That is why , in the Brundtland Report , we developed the concept of sustainable development , which had been first advanced in the World Conservation Strategy in 1980. By sustainable development we meant that the world must meet its ...
That is why , in the Brundtland Report , we developed the concept of sustainable development , which had been first advanced in the World Conservation Strategy in 1980. By sustainable development we meant that the world must meet its ...
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Sustainable development ' , in the Commission's now classic sense of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs , relates to all development ; not just to development ...
Sustainable development ' , in the Commission's now classic sense of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs , relates to all development ; not just to development ...
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The great achievement of the sustainable development concept is that it broke with the old conservationist approach to natural resources and its tendency to place Earth's other species above people . Conservationists , many of them ...
The great achievement of the sustainable development concept is that it broke with the old conservationist approach to natural resources and its tendency to place Earth's other species above people . Conservationists , many of them ...
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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