Our Common Future (Oxford Paperbacks) - Couverture souple

World Commission On Environment And Development, World Commission On Environment And Development

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 019282080X ISBN 13 : 9780192820808

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1990

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

Most of today's decision makers will be dead before the planet suffers the full consequences of acid rain, global warning, ozone depletion, widespread desertification, and species loss. Most of today's young voters, however, will be alive. In this, perhaps the most important document of the decade on the future of the world, the urgency of changing certain policy decisions, some of which threaten the very survival of the human race, is made abundantly clear. The World Commission on Environment and Development, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway, was set up as an independent body in 1983 by the United Nations. Its brief was to re-examine the critical environment, to develop proposals to solve them, and to ensure that human progress will be sustained through development without bankrupting the resources of future generations. In Our Common Future, the Commission serves notice that the time has come for a marriage of economy and ecology, so that governments and their people can take responsibility not just for environmental damage, but for the policies that cause the damage. It is not too late to change these policies; but, it warns, we must act now.

Revue de presse

`a remarkably comprehensive guide to environmental concerns around the world. The book is a compact educator.' Garbage

`The ... volume is one of thorough analysis and passionate argument...it contains much lively challenge.' Reconciliation Quarterly

`a bold and important document. What is more, unlike so many prestigious predecessors of this genre, it is highly readable ...Our Common Future should underpin all the current deliberations on the state of the world economy.' Jonathon Porritt, The Diplomat

'The volume is one of thorough analysis and passionate argument ... it contains much lively challenge ... essentially a specialist study which usefully avoids the exaggerations of ideology which have often bedevilled the whole debate on aid.'

'Essential reading for courses on development.' P.J. O'Brien, University of Glasgow

'The most important document of the decade on the future of the world.' The Advertiser, Australia

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019282080X
• ISBN 13: 9780192820808
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 420
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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