The 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Brundtland Report and the Brundtland Commission
Sustainable development:“development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (WCED 1987, p. 43).
Donald Brooks (1990), the paradigm, or worldview, emerging around this concept recognized the need to ensure and facilitate the following:
q Integration of conservation and development;
q Maintenance of ecological integrity;
q Satisfaction of basic human needs (see Chapter 3);
q Achievement of equity and social justice; and
q Provision of social self-determination and cultural diversity.
Components of sustainable development (Kamla Bhasin [1993])
q It must be in harmony with nature (if nature is to sustain us, we must sustain nature);
q It must be people centred and oriented (people have to be seen as the subjects, not the objects, of development);
q It must be women centred (recognizing the responsibility that women have always assumed for catering to the basic needs of society);
q It must cater to the needs of the majority (consumption levels of the rich and industrialized world must be reduced);
q There must be decentralization of decision-making and control over resources within countries and internationally;
q Democracy must become more participatory and direct, unleashing the latent energies of the people; and
q At every level, sustainable development must promote the politics of peace, nonviolence, and respect for life.
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