A Guide to Our Common Future : the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development

Reprocessed, principally by further cleaning, of the pdf athttps://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5E9E3564E7AA0285661ED81D2157288CWorld Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future (1987), 48 MB pdfDjVu version (10.11MB) at https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=78428d67f63dbf20ba026b03f1fc6c88This Commission believes that people can build a future that is more prosperous, more just, and more secure. Our report, Our Common Future, is not a prediction of ever increasing environmental decay, poverty, and hardship in an ever more polluted world among ever decreasing resources. We see instead the possibility for a new era of economic growth, one that must be based on policies that sustain and expand the environmental resource base. And we believesuch growth to be absolutely essential to relieve the great poverty that is deepening in much of the developing world. Our Common Future - Front Cover......Page 1 Short Title......Page 3 Members of the Commission......Page 4 Title Page......Page 5 Printer's Imprint......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 List of Tables / List of Boxes......Page 8 Acronym List and Note on Terminology......Page 9 Chairman's Foreword......Page 11 From One Earth to One World: An Overview by the WCED......Page 19 Part I: COMMON CONCERNS......Page 43 1. A Threatened Future......Page 45 2. Towards Sustainable Development......Page 61 3. The Role of the International Economy......Page 85 Part II: COMMON CHALLENGES......Page 111 4. Population and Human Resources......Page 113 5. Food Security: Sustaining the Potential......Page 136 6. Species and Ecosystems: Resources for Development......Page 165 7. Energy: Choices for Environment and Development......Page 186 8. Industry: Producing More with Less......Page 224 9. The Urban Challenge......Page 253 Part III: COMMON ENDEAVOURS......Page 277 10. Managing the Commons......Page 279 11. Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment......Page 308 12. Towards Common Action: Proposals for Institutional and Legal Change......Page 326 Annexe 1: Summary of Proposed Legal Principles......Page 366 Annexe 2: The Commission and Its Work......Page 370 The Commissioners......Page 371 The Commission's Mandate......Page 374 The Commission's Work......Page 375 Financial & Other Contributions / Further Activities......Page 380 Tokyo Declaration......Page 381 Acknowledgements......Page 384 Index......Page 406 Rear Cover......Page 420

In 1983, the U.N. General Assembly created the World Commission on Environment and Development, an independent committee of twenty-two members, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway. Designed to examine global environment and development to the year 2000 and beyond, the commission seeks to reassess critical problems, to formulate realistic proposals for solving them, and to raise the level of understanding and commitment to the issues of environment and development.
Rather than presenting a gloom and doom report about the destruction of natural resources, Our Common Future offers an agenda advocating the growth of economies based on policies that do not harm, and can even enhance, the environment. The commission recognizes that the time has come for a marriage of economy and ecology, in order to ensure the growth of human progress through development without bankrupting the resources of future generations.

Reprocessed, principally by further cleaning, of the pdf at https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5E9E3564E7AA0285661ED81D2157288C World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future (1987) 48 MB pdf DjVu version (10.11MB) at https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=78428d67f63dbf20ba026b03f1fc6c88 The Commission was created by the UN in 1983 to formulate new proposals to deal with the important issues of environmental development facing the world. The Commission's findings are presented in this book.