Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development

In 1987 the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), chaired by Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, published Our Common Future, commonly known as the Brundtland Report, through the United Nations and Oxford University Press. The report defines sustainable development as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, a formulation that became the basis for how sustainable development is generally understood today. It argues that the era's critical environmental problems stemmed largely from poverty in the global South and unsustainable consumption and production patterns in the global North, and that economic growth and environmental health are inseparably linked. The report laid groundwork for the 1992 Earth Summit, Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration, and the later Commission on Sustainable Development. Credits: Comisión Mundial de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo de Naciones Unidas. (1987). Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Naciones Unidas, Comisión Mundial de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo. Also listed as: Brundtland, G. H. (1987). Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. ONU, World Commission on Environment and Development. | Brundtland, G. H. (1987). Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 4(1), 300. http://doi.org/10.1080/07488008808408783