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Brundtland Report

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Brundtland Report

The findings of the World Commission on Environment and Development, published in 1987 as Our Common Future. It stressed the necessity of environmental protection and popularized the phrase ‘sustainable development’. The commission was chaired by the Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland.



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The Brundtland Report adopted the stance that continuing economic growth and environmental protection are compatible and the only viable possibility (Leist and Holland, 2000).
In 1987 the World Commission on Environment and Development developed a definition of sustainability that was included in its findings, which became known as the Brundtland Report.
Numerous definitions of sustainability exist with a common definition being adapted from The Brundtland Report, by the World Commission on the Environment and Development.
 
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