What is Sustainable Development?
What is Sustainable Development?
Environmental, economic and social well-being for today and tomorrow
Sustainable development has been defined in many ways, but the most frequently quoted definition is from Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report:[1]
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:
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the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
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the idea of limitations
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