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	Brundtland Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Report of the Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, was published by Oxford University Press in 1987.
		The full text of the Brundtland Report can be downloaded as a scanned copy of the UN General Assembly document A/42/427 - a 16 Mbyte [pdf] file.
		The report deals with sustainable development and the change of politics needed for achieving that.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brundtland_Commission (250 words)

	Women as Global Leaders - Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland - Print Friendly
		Brundtland's first choice of career was neither environmentalist nor politician, but to become a doctor like her father.
		Brundtland was the youngest person and the first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister in Norway.
		Brundtland was nominated as Director-General of the World Health Organization by the Executive Board of WHO in January, 1998.
	www.zu.ac.ae /leadership2005/speakers_gro_print.html (702 words)

	Unasylva - No. 187 - Forest conservation and utilization - Sustainable development: What do we owe to future ...
		But the commission believes that the demands can be balanced, that policies can be found which satisfy both to a reasonable degree, or which, in the often-quoted words, "meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
		And the commitment to temporal impartiality is reflected in the commission's balancing of the "needs of the present" with the "needs" of future generations, or in the implicit assumption that the two sets of needs have equal moral weight.
		This ethic of limits seems to be essential to the Brundtland Commission's belief that the two component demands in its ideal are compatible.
	www.fao.org /docrep/w2149E/w2149e08.htm (4511 words)

	Historical path \| SDinfo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The General Assembly of the United Nations mandate established the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1983 to look ahead at critical environmental and development issues and to propose means for the global community to address them.
		The Commission's definition of sustainable development is often used: ""Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.""
		One of the recommendations of the Commission was that the United Nations sponsor a global conference to take a comprehensive look at current development and economic practices and their impact on the environment.
	www.sdinfo.gc.ca /historical_path/index_e.cfm?id=109 (211 words)

	Alternatives: Editorial
		In particular, the commission proposed that the ecological and social costs of large-scale development projects be carefully weighed through participatory and scientifically defensible impact assessments.
		Brundtland also recognized that developing countries "have a major urban crisis on their hands," contributing to global insustainability.
		As the limitations of Brundtland's notion of sustainable development come into focus, environmental advocates need to concentrate their attention on issues of power and privilege - an ambitious agenda for the next ten years of environmental thought, policy and action.
	www.fes.uwaterloo.ca /alternatives/232/edit232.htm (563 words)

	brundtland
		Gro Harlem Brundtland was born in 1939 in Oslo, Norway.
		Brundtland become a strong advocate of women's rights, especially pertaining to the choice to have an abortion.
		Brundtland was elected a second time to be prime minister of Norway in 1986.
	www.airheadsscuba.com /kayesite1/brundt.html (993 words)

	Biography of Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dr Brundtland's first choice of career was neither environmentalist nor politician, but to become a doctor like her father.
		Gro Harlem Brundtland was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold the office of PrimeMinister in Norway.
		Dr Brundtland was nominated as Director-General of the World Health Organization by the Executive Board of WHO in January 1998.
	www.un.org /News/dh/hlpanel/brundtland-bio.htm (711 words)

	UNECE Annual Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Brundtland Commission's report defined sustainable development as "development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
		The Brundtland Commission, named after Norway's former prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, who chaired it, found an eager audience for its proposals at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
		Experience of the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg decisions also shows that the challenges are less related to the definition of the concept than to the political and practical preparedness for action within the consensus of the concept on which the Brundtland Commission agreed.
	www.unece.org /oes/nutshell/focus_sustainable_development.htm (1504 words)

	PMag v03n4p11 -- The Brundtland Report: Our Common Future
		The Brundtland Report underscores the concern of the peace movement for the fate of the earth and challenges it to expand into a survival movement for humanity and countless endangered species.
		The Brundtland Report recognizes that there are no military solutions to "environmental insecurity" and that the "nation state is insufficient to deal with threats to shared ecosystems." It recommends the establishment of an international early warning system for environmental risks and conflict.
		The Brundtland Commission's chapters on "managing the commons" and "institutional and legal challenges" reinforce some important concerns of the Canadian peace movement's and suggests additions to its agenda.
	www.peacemagazine.org /archive/v03n4p11.htm (620 words)

	EthicScan Canada Limited \| FAQs
		The Brundtland Commission is another name for the World Commission, which was "established in 1983 by the United Nations General Assembly" and named for its chairperson Gro Harlem Brundtland (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 5, page 78).
		The commission stated that companies must make development sustainable -"to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 5, page 78).
		In order to reach this goal of sustainable development, the commission outlined "seven natural-resource thresholds that cannot be crossed without severely damaging our biosphere systems.
	www.ethicscan.ca /resource_centre/faqs/page16.html (318 words)

	Sustainability is:
		This commission is frequently referred to as the Brundtland Commission, after Gro Harlem Brundtland, the head of the commission and formerly the Prime Minister of Norway.
		The commission was asked to look at the world's environmental problems and propose a global agenda for addressing them.
		As a result, the Brundtland Commission came up with this definition of sustainable development which emphasizes meeting needs, not just now, but in the future as well.
	www.sustainablemeasures.com /Training/Indicators/Def-Br1.html (306 words)

	Environmental Learning Web Site
		The World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by the Prime Minister of Norway, Mrs Brundtland, met for the first time in October 1983.
		The results of the works by the Commission, which continued until 1987, are published in 1988 as the Brundtland Commission Report.
		While the Brundtland Commission Report does not mention environmental education explicitly, it states that education should focus on the environment and be integrated into other disciplines in the official curriculum at all levels in order to develop a feeling of responsibility toward the environment (page 136).
	www.ec.gc.ca /education/documents/colloquium/Paper2h_e.htm (416 words)

	Module 2 \| Activity 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This book is also known as the Brundtland Report, after the Chair of the Commission and former Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland.
		The aim of the World Commission was to find practical ways of addressing the environmental and developmental problems of the world.
		In addition, a United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development was established to monitor the implementation of these agreements and to act as a forum for the ongoing negotiation of international policies on environment and development.
	www.unesco.org /education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02/uncom02t01bod.htm (976 words)

	PetersNet: Laurene Conner, Sustainable Development: a Global Agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway was also a "member of the Socialist International." These chairmen shared the bond of socialism, a bond at variance with both the U.S. Constitution and the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church.
		The Brundtland Commission describes Sustainable Development as "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."6 It is further defined: ".
		A Brundtland Commission recommendation that the UN General Assembly prepare a "Universal Declaration on environmental protection and sustainable development" resulted in the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
	www.petersnet.net /browse/355.htm (6238 words)

	Cornell News: Gro Harlem Brundtland gives Iscol Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During the 1980s, Brundtland chaired the World Commission on the Environment and Development (the "Brundtland Commission"), which coined and popularized the concept of sustainable development in its 1987 landmark report, "Our Common Future." Its recommendations provided the momentum for the U.N. "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
		In 1998 Brundtland was elected to serve as director-general of the WHO for a five-year term.
		A medical doctor with a master's degree in public health, Brundtland became both the first woman and the youngest prime minister in Norway's history in 1981, at age 41.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Stories/April05/Iscol.Lecture.sfm.html (340 words)

	CIELAP Intern Perspectives
		The Brundtland Commission (UN World Commission on the Environment and Sustainable Development, 1987) assigned humanity a difficult task when it said that we could find a way to meet the needs of current generations without impairing the capacity of future generations to meet their own needs.
		This paper explores the issues and terms proliferating around the concept of sustainable development that have evolved since the Brundtland Commission.
		Since the Brundtland Commission and the Rio Conference, Canada has implemented institutional and legal measures intended to further progress towards sustainability.
	www.cielap.org /whatsnew/news/intern.html (667 words)

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		But we are now ten years past the publication of the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) which tried to explain sustainable development to the global community and enlist all humanity is an efort to reach sustainability by the end of the century.
		The Commission's powerful report set the stage for the Rio Earth Summit, but, even as that event approached, the pressures to split social, environmental, and economic development apart operated in the background.
		Indeed, since the publication of the Brundtland Commission report, one of the most difficult tasks of sustainable development has been to keep social development concerns, including its equity dimension, in the conversation.
	www.clad.org.ve /anales2/cooper.html (9365 words)

	Sarah Randall THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF OXFORD CITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is not to discard the Brundtland Commission of 1987, but to simply place it into a more specific context for the benefit of my research.
		The Brundtland report was followed in 1992 by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the 'Earth Summit' this was held in Rio de Janeiro.
		The Brundtland definition is a good one "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." It refers to needs, which I think is better than other statements that tend to imply wants of the present.
	www.brookes.ac.uk /schools/rem/dissertations/2000/sarah_randal.html! (9524 words)

	What is sustainable development? \| SDinfo
		The World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." In other words, development is essential to satisfy human needs and improve the quality of human life.
		At the same time, development must be based on the efficient and environmentally responsible use of all of society's scarce resources - natural, human, and economic.
		The Brundtland Commission, in Our Common Future, and subsequently Agenda 21 set out recommendations for developed and developing nations regarding sustainable development strategies concerning clean air and water, water supply, energy, land use, housing, waste treatment, transportation, and health care.
	www.sdinfo.gc.ca /what_is_sd/index_e.cfm (570 words)

	United Nations and Global Security Initiative
		Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is currently Distinguished Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
		She also served as Chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission), which was the impetus for the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992.
		Prior to her career in public life, Dr. Brundtland was a practicing physician in the Norwegian public health system.
	www.un-globalsecurity.org /bios/brundtland.asp (114 words)

	WHO \| Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General
		Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland was born in Oslo, Norway, on 20 April 1939.
		The sense of global awareness that began in her childhood developed when, as a young mother and newly qualified doctor, Gro Harlem Brundtland won a scholarship to the Harvard School of Public Health.
		Dr Brundtland finally stepped down as Prime Minister in October 1996.
	www.who.int /dg/brundtland/bruntland/en (731 words)

	Sustainable Development Tutorial
		He was also a member of the Brundtland Commission.
		Shortly after the 1992 event, Strong created an NGO (non-government-organization) called Earth Council, whose purpose was to coordinate the efforts of all nations to achieve sustainable development through the creation of national councils on sustainable development.
		In conjunction with the implementation of the two Conventions adopted at Rio de Janeiro, the PCSD has launched a massive initiative to transform America's cities into what is called "Sustainable Communities." The UN Conference on Human Settlements, (HABITAT II) focused its 1996 agenda on sustainable communities.
	www.sovereignty.net /p/sd/sdtut.htm (980 words)

	Clayoquot Biosphere Trust - AR1101TTfrm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In response, in 1983 the United Nations struck a high level commission of enquiry, the World Commission on Environment and Development, commonly referred to as the Brundtland Commission after its Chair, former Norwegian Prime Minister Ms.
		The Brundtland Commission report, “Our Common Future”, was published in 1983 and coined the phrase “sustainable development”.
		This conference built on the UNCHE and the Brundtland Commission.
	www.clayoquotbiosphere.org /media/AR1101TTfrm.htm (360 words)

	IISD Youth Source Book on Sustainable Development
		Some years later, the World Commission on Environment and Development (known as the "Brundtland Commission") was created and in 1987 it presented a special report to the UN called "Our Common Future".
		The Brundtland Commission "recommended that the world convene again for a global conference, but this time to focus on environment and development."
		After the report was presented, the UN decided to call for another world conference, in December 1989.
	www.iisd.org /youth/ysbk086.htm (781 words)

	German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) - Topical - Press Release
		On the other hand, globalisation offers enormous chances and opportunities, due to the promise of prosperity and stability, universal human rights and an increasingly global sense of responsibility.
		It is intended that the international commission continue the successful work of the Brundtland Commission.
		The concept of sustainable development dates back to the report issued by Gro Harlem Brundtland's "World Commission on Environment and Development".
	www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de /topical/press_release/13-11-01.html (266 words)

	Sustainable Development: A Global Agenda Structured On Population Control
		Members of the Brundtland Commission came from 21 "very different nations" and included Jim McNeill and Maurice Strong from Canada and the American, William D. Ruckelshaus, the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ERA).
		The Brundtland Commission describes Sustainable Development as "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
		The Director of the UN Environment Program was a speaker and the subject of another address was "Science and Religion Joining Hands to Save the Environment" Thus, links were established with the Moscow and Oxford Forums, the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders for Survival, and the Temple of Understanding.
	www.conspiracyarchive.com /NewAge/sustainable_development.htm (7093 words)

	Unasylva - No. 169 - Sustainability - Editorial: Sustainability
		The idea that economic growth and environmental conservation can and should be compatible has been captured in the phrase "sustainable development", introduced into the public debate with the World Conservation Strategy in 1980 and popularized in 1987 in the World Commission on Environment and Development's report, Our common future.
		The report, issued by the Brundtland Commission, defines sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
		Many other groups and individuals have come up with their own definitions of sustainable development.
	www.fao.org /docrep/u6010E/u6010e02.htm (562 words)

	International Environmental Legal Regimes
		The World Commission on Environment and Development (a.k.a.
		Intro to "Our Common Future" report from the Brundtland Commission.
		Brundtland Annex I and II Summary of Proposed Legal Principles for Environmental Protection And Sustainable Development Adopted by the WCED Experts Group on Environmental Law, and The Commission And Its Work.
	www.sparksllewellinsetters.com /international.html (933 words)

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