...Environment and Development (Brundlandt Commission), Our Common Future (1987). UN Doc. A/CONF. 151/26 (vol. I). 'Human beings are at the centre of concerns for...healthy and productive life in harmony with nature'. 'In order to achieve sustainable development, environmental protection shall constitute an integral...

...that were put forward as a blueprint for achieving global Sustainability. ' ' Principle 1 states that 'Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable...healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.' Several important international agreements emerged from the Earth Summit: Agenda 21 (United Nations...

...Evidence of this interpretation is found in the following principles of the Declaration: Rio Principle 1 "Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable...healthy and productive life in harmony with nature." Rio Principle 3 "The right to development must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet developmental and...

...Conference on Environment and Development in 1 992 '6 are rather sparse. Principle 1 declares that human beings are 'at the centre of concerns for sustainable...healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.' Beyond this tangential reference, human rights concerns were not, it is fair to say, at the centre...

...beneficiaries of the right to a satisfactory environment. The first of its principles indeed reads as follows: "Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable...entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature".1264 The concept of solidarity also permeates the whole Declaration, in that States, peoples,...

...issue at UNCED. The Rio Declaration supports an anthropocentric approach: Principle 1 states that: he Use of Certain Detergents in Washing and Cleaning...1968, in force 1 6 February 1 97 1 ; 788 UNTS 181 1 nature.'3 Legal developments in other fora and contexts, however, reflect a greater environmental consciousness...

...he indicated that "human beings are at the center of concerns for sustainable development" and that "they are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature". In line with the statement in Principle 5 calling for "[a]ll States and all people... [to] cooperate...

...development', while a revolutionary concept in some respects, remains determinedly anthropocentric: Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable...healthy and productive life in harmony with nature. The Declaration does not, however, give any detailed consideration to the difficulties of integrating...

...phrase used in the Statement of Forest Principles that had Table 12.1 Summary of the Rio Declaration 1 Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable...healthy and productive life in harmony with nature. 2 States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international...

...level, there is nothing new here, since the first principle of the Rio Declaration plainly stated that "human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable...entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature."42 On the other hand, many environmentalists have argued vigorously against any human-centered...