Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising on the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs In the year 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) is introduced the term sustainable development in its report our common future (the Brundtland Commission). According to WCED, sustainable development may be [...]
Sustainable Development at Rio, 1992 and After Rio! The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) at Rio in 1992 (the Earth Summit) was attended by 128 heads of states and in total by the representatives of some 178 government. Debate at the conference drew very directly on the mainstream ideas about the environment and development that had evolved [...]
Sustainable Development of Environment! The term ‘sustainable development’ was first used in the Cocoyoc Declaration on Environment and Development in the early 1970s. Since then, it has become a buzzword for international organisations dedicated to achieving environmentally benign or beneficial development. The term has served to catalyse debate over the relationship between economic change and the natural resource base in [...]