Our common future

Oxford University Press

1987

xv, 383 p.

Oxford paperbacks

978-0192820808

Contents: Acronym list and note on terminology -- Chairman's foreword -- From one earth to one world : an overview by the World Commission on Environment and Development -- pt. I: Common concerns. A threatened future -- Towards sustainable development -- The role of the international economy -- pt. II: Common challenges. Population and human resources -- Food security : sustaining the potential -- Species and ecosystems : resources for development -- Energy : choices for environment and development -- Industry : producing more with less -- The urban challenge -- pt. III: Common endeavours. Managing the commons -- Peace, security, development, and the environment -- Towards common action : proposals for institutional and legal change -- Annexe 1. Summary of proposed legal principles for environmental protection and sustainable development -- Annexe 2. The Commission and its work.

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.

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