The Brundtland Report
The Brundtland Report (1987) defined sustainability as:
Ensuring that development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.1
This definition implied a continuous process rather than an event or a quality. It acknowledged the need to use the earth’s resources to meet the basic human needs of shelter, food and warmth for an increasing number of people. Brundtland did not suggest a reversion to a primitive life to ensure that the inventory of the earth’s resources is left more or less as we find it but it did urge that the minimum impact should be made upon the resource stock. The Report emphasised four sustainable ...
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