GGR345H5 Chapter Notes -Resource Depletion, Our Common Future, United Nations General Assembly
Document Summary
1. attempted to recapture the spirit of stockhol 1972": which had been been so celebrated by: placed environmental issues firmly on the international political agenda. Development could erode the environmental resources on which they must be based", and: approach to basic needs and the corollary of the primacy development action for the poor, ideas of the environmental limits. This is because the environment is not a separate entity. Assembly to discuss environment as one single problem. The report started from the premise that environmental and developmental issues could not be separated hence that environment degradation could undermine economic dev. Definition of sustainable future (the one about needs of today and not compromising the future) was based on two concepts. Our common future was by far the more effective document in its ability to address and engage govt policy makers compared to wcs (?)
