 | Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea - 1987 - 764 pages
...development. It may be recalled in this regard that the v.'orld corrmission on Environment and Development had defined sustainable development as "development that...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sven-Olof Ryding - 1992 - 802 pages
...sustainable development." Sustainable development, a key issue through the entire work, was defined as "development that meets the needs of the present...of future generations to meet their own needs". The report clearly indicated that the attainment of sustainable development deal with the interrelationship... | |
 | 1995 - 184 pages
...Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN Background Brief Sustainable development is most often defined as development that meets the needs of the present...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
...sustainability require growth? RICHARD BALDWIN 1 Introduction 'Sustainable development' is often defined as development that meets the needs of the present...of future generations to meet their own needs. The conveniently flexible word 'needs' renders this definition inoperable. To economists 'sustainability'... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder - 1997 - 532 pages
...carefully, and learn from your mistakes quickly. The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) defined "sustainable development" as "development...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... | |
 | Ian H. Angus - 1997 - 284 pages
...United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Bruntland Report, as "development that meets the needs of the present...of future generations to meet their own needs"; the report argued that "living standards that go beyond the basic minimum are sustainable only if consumption... | |
 | Satya Dev Gupta - 1997 - 372 pages
...will bring with it constructive reforms for the renewal of society. Sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the present...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... | |
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sustainable development" as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". 
