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Sustainable Development: Beyond Brundtland

Steve Bass, August 2007

The World Today, Volume 63, Number 8/9

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Twenty years ago, the World Commision on Environment and Development under Gro Harlem Brundtland introduced the idea of sustainable development into the political mainstream, as 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'. One such generation has emerged since then, but does not yet seem to have been well served by Brundtland.

Steve Bass is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development.