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Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development
Chapter 2: Towards
Sustainable Development
Academic Year : 2012
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Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development
I. The Concept of Sustainable Development II. Equity and the Common Interest III. Strategic Imperatives 1. Reviving Growth 2. Changing the quality of Growth 3. Meeting Essential Human Needs 4. Ensuring a Sustainable Level of Population 5. Conserving and Enhancing the Resource Base 6. Reorienting Technology and Managing Risk 7. Merging Environment and Economics in Decision Making Conclusion
Gro Brundtland
Chair of WCED, 1987
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Chapter 01 : A Threatened Future
Symptoms and Cause : Poverty Growth Survival The Economic Crisis
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What is
Sustainable Development?
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 2 Key concepts:
The concept of ‘needs’ The idea of limitations Thus the goals of economic and social development must be defined in terms of sustainability in all countries : developed or developing, market-oriented or centrally planned.
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Why do we need sustainable development?
Pressing global realities: The rapid growth of the world’s population and its changing distribution The persistence of widespread poverty The growing pressures on the natural world The continuing denial of democracy and human rights The very notion of “development” itself, what it has come to mean and how it is measured.
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I- The Concept of Sustainable Development
* The satisfaction of human needs and aspirations in the major objective of development. The essential needs of vast numbers of people in developing countries (basic needs) for food, clothing, shelter, jobs - are not being met
* Sustainable development requires meeting the basic needs of all and extending to all the opportunity to satisfy their aspirations for a better life.
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I- The Concept
Chapter 2: Towards
Sustainable Development
Academic Year : 2012
1
Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development
I. The Concept of Sustainable Development II. Equity and the Common Interest III. Strategic Imperatives 1. Reviving Growth 2. Changing the quality of Growth 3. Meeting Essential Human Needs 4. Ensuring a Sustainable Level of Population 5. Conserving and Enhancing the Resource Base 6. Reorienting Technology and Managing Risk 7. Merging Environment and Economics in Decision Making Conclusion
Gro Brundtland
Chair of WCED, 1987
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Chapter 01 : A Threatened Future
Symptoms and Cause : Poverty Growth Survival The Economic Crisis
3
What is
Sustainable Development?
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 2 Key concepts:
The concept of ‘needs’ The idea of limitations Thus the goals of economic and social development must be defined in terms of sustainability in all countries : developed or developing, market-oriented or centrally planned.
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Why do we need sustainable development?
Pressing global realities: The rapid growth of the world’s population and its changing distribution The persistence of widespread poverty The growing pressures on the natural world The continuing denial of democracy and human rights The very notion of “development” itself, what it has come to mean and how it is measured.
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I- The Concept of Sustainable Development
* The satisfaction of human needs and aspirations in the major objective of development. The essential needs of vast numbers of people in developing countries (basic needs) for food, clothing, shelter, jobs - are not being met
* Sustainable development requires meeting the basic needs of all and extending to all the opportunity to satisfy their aspirations for a better life.
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I- The Concept