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A perspective on sustainable development after Johannesburg on the fifteenth anniversary of Our Common Future: An interview with Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Sustalnable development is firmly back on the agenda. We realize we need to maintain that delicate balance between development and the environment.
-Kofi Annan1
U.N. Secretary-General
We see the mistrust and the disbelief in many developing countries. Targets and timetables are the only way to regain some credibility, to move from words to deeds.
-Margot Wallstrom2
Commissioner for the Environment, European Union
Plans are good but actions can put cle...
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A perspective on sustainable development after Johannesburg on the fifteenth anniversary of Our Common Future: An interview with Gro Harlem Brundtland
Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
; Sustalnable development is firmly back on the agenda. We realize we need to maintain that delicate balance between development and the environment. -Kofi Annan1 U.N. Secretary-General We see the mistrust and the disbelief in many developing countries. Targets and timetables are the only way to
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An enduring legacy: our Common Future is as salient today as it was 20 years ago.(Living Classics)(report on sustainable development)
Alternatives Journal
; IT HAS BEEN 20 years since the World Commission on Environment and Development issued its ground-breaking report on sustainable development. Convened by the United Nations in 1983 and chaired by the former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, this independent commission was born of the
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Devising indicators of sustainable development for the mining and minerals industry: An analysis of critical background issues
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
; Key words: Mining, sustainable development, minerals, sustainability, environmental management SUMMARY The exact application of sustainable development in the mining and minerals industry has precipitated considerable debate in recent years. Since the publication of the Brundtland Commission's
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: IN SEARCH OF A LEGAL RULE.
Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis
; THE QUESTIONS TO BE CONSIDERED Should sustainable development be a domestic legal rule? What role could it play? What would it mean? Before considering these questions, I will briefly describe their legal context. THE LEGAL CONTEXT The emergence of the concept international environmental law In
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CONSULTATION ON COMMUNITY'S FUTURE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY.
Europe Environment
; The European Commission issued a consultation paper on 28 March designed to help in drafting a Community strategy on sustainable development in time for the Gothenburg Summit on 15-16 June, in accordance with the request from EU Heads of State and Government at the Helsinki European Council in
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Perspective: Trapped in thick babble of ecospeak; Rio+10 gets under way today, with sustainable development expected to provide a new chapter in our common future. Confused? Matt Daily and Jodie Ginsberg provide a rough guide to the patois of those trying to save the planet.(Comment)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Matt Daily and Jodie Ginsberg The 50,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries descending on Johannesburg for the Earth Summit will have no problem finding a common language to thrash out a strategy for sustainable development. They will be immersed in the ecojargon that splits experts from
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Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues.(Book Review)
Journal of Environmental Education
; Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues, by William Scott and Stephen Gough. 2003. New York: RoutledgeFalmer. Paperback. $19.99. 173 pages. IS BN 0-415-27648-9. Sustainable Development and Learning is an academic exploration of the relationship between learning and sustainable
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Taking it on--towards sustainable development.
Town and Country Planning
; ... end in itself; the New Economics Foundation's (NEF's) 'measure of domestic progress' (MDP)--see http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/news_mdp.aspx--should be adopted as the best available single indicator of sustainable development, but it needs to be coupled with ...
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Assessing sustainable development in the European Union: the Sustainable Quality Management[R] approach in the context of structural funds.
Greener Management International
; New concepts and tools for defining coherent systems of policy objectives and for evaluating actions and programmes are essential for the development of new forms of governance in Europe. The concept of sustainable development also points in this direction; the obligation to conceive and implement
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2003 Jackling lecture: Sustainable development for the global mining and metals industry
Mining Engineering
; Recipient of the 2003 D.C. Jackling Award What is sustainable development? Fifteen years ago, few in the mining industry had heard the words sustainable development, let alone knew what it meant. Today, it is a different story. Industry leaders have embraced the concept. They have taken action to
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