The Brundtland Report from 1987 defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." It established three pillars of sustainability: environment, economy, and society. The report called for policies that promote economic growth, social equity, and environmental protection to achieve long-term well-being for all people around the world.

1. PRESENTED BY
SAVITRI KUMARI
VINIT LOHARIA
PRITHVI MOHAN
SRILIKHITHA
L.RADHIKA RUDRANI
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING
SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND
ARCHITECTURE, VIJAYAWADA
The Brundtland
Commission
Report.
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Environmental Planning & Management
3rd year, 5th sem

2. Gro Harlem Brundtland
 She was born on 20April 1939.
 She is a medical doctor with a public health
degree. She is former director of the World
Health Organization.
 A feminist, she was Prime Minister of
Norway (1981, 1986–89, 1990–96), the first
woman and youngest ever.
 She was chosen to direct the U.N. World
Commission on Environment and
Development.
 Since 2007, she is a special U.N. envoy on
climate change.
INTRODUCTION
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3.  The Brundtland Report (former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem
Brundtland), published 27 years ago.
 It has been successful in forming international ties between
governments and multinational corporations.
 Described sustainability as a three-legged stool with people, planet and
profit taking equal importance in the equation.
 The report led the production ofAgenda 21, an action plan of the UN
with regard to sustainable development
 Agenda 21 entailed actions to be taken globally, nationally, and locally
in order to make life on Earth more sustainable
OUR COMMON FUTURE
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4.  Our Common Future aimed to discuss the
environment & development as one single issue
 The Brundtland report (Our Common Future)
defined sustainable development as “development
that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”
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5. e
The Brundtland Report highlighted th
three fundamental components
of sustainable development,
the environment, the economy,
and society.
 Environment
We should conserve and enhance our resource base, by gradually
changing the ways in which we develop and use technologies.
 Social Equity
Developing nations must be allowed to meet their basic needs of
employment, food, energy, water and sanitation. If this is to be done
in a sustainable manner, then there is a definite need for a sustainable
level of population.
 Economic Growth
Economic growth should be revived and developing nations should
be allowed a growth of equal quality to the developed nations.
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6. The environment – a few facts
Flooding May Change the World Map
If global warming continues areas less than 30 feet above sea
level will be vulnerable to flooding.
Those areas most at risk of flooding, due to the rising sea level
would be island nations like the Maldives….and the UK!
10% of the worlds population live in areas likely to be affected
by rising sea levels such as Shanghai, and Lagos and The
Atlantic Gulf Coasts of the USA.
Scientists project as much as a 3 foot sea level rise, by 2100.
Also threatened are Holland, Belgium, Denmark, & parts of
China and India.
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7. UK Government report states:
‘a secure energy system is one that is able to meet the needs of people
and organisations ……..in a reliable and affordable way both now and in
the future’
 Just three countries supply the vast majority of EU gas imports—
Russia (40%),Algeria (30%) and Norway (25%).
 The UK will need to replace around 25% of its firm capacity over the
next decade if it is to continue to meet demand
 There is a risk that not enough gas capacity will be built in the UK as
investors seek more certain returns elsewhere. Government is
therefore concerned that the UK will not have enough ‘firm’capacity
over the coming decade to ensure that the UK’s electricity supplies
remain secure.
The environment – Energy Security
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8. The Bruntland Reports says..
 Economic growth should be revived and developing nations should be
allowed a growth of equal quality to the developed nations.
 China’s economy is projected to grow by about 8% a year, with India
averaging 7.8% annual growth and Brazil 4.9%. By contrast, North
America will experience annual growth of about 3%, Europe, 2% and
Japan about 1%.
Some facts to consider…
 In recent years the world's food production has increased by 24 per
cent, outpacing the rate of population growth.
 However, this increase was not evenly distributed throughout the
world. For example, in Africa, food production decreased, while
population increased.
 Most experts agree that there is no shortage of food, and that equitable
distribution should be sufficient to meet all needs for the future.
 Lack of money to buy food is the problem of malnourishment.
THE ECONOMY
Source - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
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9. TIME INTERVAL NUMBER OF YEARS WORLD POPULATION
?-1850 to 1 Billion 1850 years +
1850-1930 2 Billion 80 years
1930-1975 4 Billion 45 years
1975-1987 5 Billion 12 years
1987-2000 6 Billion 13 years
2013 – 10:50 AM Wednesday 27th Feb – 7.1 Billion…and rising
*We currently are adding 90 million annually and will continue to do
so through to 2015 and beyond.
Source: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population
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10.  Poverty is a condition of chronic deprivation and need at the family
level.
 Poverty, is a major concern of humankind, because poverty
everywhere reduces human beings to a low level of existence.
 Poor people lack access to enough land and income to meet basic
needs.
 Alack of basic needs results in physical weakness and poor health.
 Poor health decreases the ability of the poor to work and put them
deeper into poverty.
 The priorities for getting rid of poverty, improving food supply,
ending malnutrition, and providing adequate housing coincide at all
points with those required for balanced population growth.
POVERTY
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11. GROWTH
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 Many of the products and technologies that have gone into this
improvement are raw material- and energy-intensive and entail a
substantial amount of pollution.
 Environmental stresses also arise from more traditional forms of
production. More land has been cleared for settled cultivation in the past
100 years than in all the previous centuries of human existence.
Interventions in the water cycles have increased greatly.
 In recent years, industrial countries have been able to achieve economic
growth using less energy and raw materials per unit of output. This,
along with the efforts to reduce the emission of pollutants, will help to
contain the pressure on the biosphere.

12. SURVIVAL
The scale and complexity of our requirements for natural resources have
increased greatly with the rising levels of population and production.
• Greenhouse effect
• Ozon layer deletion
• Air pollution
• Deforestation
• Diposal of toxic
waste
• Desertification
• extinguishes species
of plants and animals
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13. ELEMENTS / DIMENSIONS OF
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
 Political
 Economic
 Institutional
 Technological
 Socio-cultural
 Ecological
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14. PARAMETERS OF SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC
 Maintaining a sustainable population
 Maintaining productivity and profitability of environment and natural
resources
ECOLOGICAL
 Adopting environmental management weapons in policy and decision
making
 Protecting the environment and conserving natural resources
TECHNOLOGICAL
 Promoting proper management of wastes and residuals
 Adopting environment-friendly technologies
POLITICAL
 Empowering the people
 Maintaining peace and order
SOCIO-CULTURE
 Promoting resource access and upholding property rights
 Promoting environmental awareness, inculcating environment ethics and
supporting environment management action
INSTITUTIONAL
 Improving institutional capacity/ capability to manage sustainable
development
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15. Sustainable
Development
Business is the key
actor in ECONOMY,
which is mainly
concerned with
producing goods and
services for people
Government is the key
actor in POLITY, which
is concerned with
democratic
governance and
security of human
rights.
Civil Society is the key
actor in CULTURE, which
is concerned with the
development of the social
and spiritual capacities of
human beings.
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16. “Development which meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs”
or
Sustainable Development means making sure that the
things we do, the goods we buy and the lifestyle we
have today will not harm the environment for us, for
people in other places and for future generations
Sustainable Development
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17. The concept of 'needs', in particular the essential needs of the world's
poor,
to which overriding priority should be given.
The idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social
organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future
needs.
It contains two key concepts:
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18. Development involves a progressive transformation of economy and
society. A development path that is sustainable in a physical sense could
theoretically be pursued even in a rigid social and political setting. But
physical sustainability cannot be secured unless development policies pay
attention to such considerations as changes in access to resources
 The goals of economic and social development must be defined in terms of
sustainability in all countries- developed or developing
Development tends to simplify ecosystems and to reduce their diversity of
species. And species, once extinct, are not renewable. The loss of plant and
animal species can greatly limit the options of future generations; so sustainable
development requires the conservation of plant and animal species.
So-called free goods like air and water are also resources. The raw materials
and energy of production processes are only partly converted to useful
products. The rest comes out as wastes. Sustainable development requires
that the adverse impacts on the quality of air, water, and other natural elements
are minimized so as to sustain the ecosystem's overall integrity.
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19. A society may in many ways compromise its ability to meet the essential
needs of its people in the future – by overexploiting resources, for example.
The direction of technological developments may solve some immediate
problems but lead to even greater ones. Large sections of the population may
be marginalized by ill-considered development
societies economies companies
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IT IS ABOUT DEVELOPING
that can be sustained on social, economic and environmental terms
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20. sustainable development is about
social progress
which recognises the needs of everyone

21. sustainable development is about ensuring
employment
and economic security for everyone

22. sustainable development is about
environmental
protection being at the centre of everything we
do

23. sustainable development is about the
prudent use
of the earth’s natural resources

24. How are individuals in the real world to be persuaded or made to act in the
common interest?
 It is not that there is one set of villains and another of victims.All would
be better off if each person took into account the effect oœ" his or her
acts upon others.
 Interdependence is not simply a local phenomenon. Rapid growth in
production has extended it to the international plane
 The enforcement of common interest often suffers because areas of
political jurisdiction and areas of impact do not coincide.
 The search for common interest would be less difficult if all development
and environment problems had solutions that would leave everyone
better off. This is seldom the case, and there are usually winners and
losers. Many problems arise from inequalities in access to resources
 As a system approaches ecological limits, inequalities sharpen
 Globally, wealthier nations are better placed financially and
technologically to cope with the effects of possible climatic change.
 our inability to promote the common interest in sustainable development
is often a product of the relative neglect of economic and social justice
within and amongst nations.
EQUITY AND THE COMMON INTEREST
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25. STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES
Critical objectives for environment and development policies that follow
from the concept of sustainable development include:
1. · Reviving Growth; developing nations focus their efforts upon
eliminating poverty and satisfying essential human needs, then
domestic demand will increase for both agricultural products and
manufactured goods and some services.
2. · Changing The Quality Of Growth; Sustainable development
involves more than growth. It requires a change in the content of
growth, to make it less Material- and energy-intensive and more
equitable in its impact.
3. Meeting Essential Needs For Jobs, Food, Energy, Water, And
Sanitation; The principal development challenge is to meet the needs
and aspirations of an expanding developing world population.
4. · Ensuring A Sustainable Level Of Population; The sustainability of
development is intimately linked to the dynamics of population growth.
Population policies should be integrated with other economic and
social development programmes female education, health care, and
the expansion of the livelihood base of the poor.
5. · Conserving And Enhancing The Resource Base: Development
policies must widen people's options for earning a sustainable
livelihood, particularly for resource-poor households and in areas
under ecological stress.
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26. 6. Reorienting Technology And Managing Risk; limits to global
development are perhaps determined by the availability of energy
resources and by the biosphere's capacity to absorb the by-products of
energy use. The development of environmentally appropriate technologies
is closely related to questions of risk
management.
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7.Merging Environment And Economics In Decision Making.
sectoral connections create patterns of economic and ecological
interdependence rarely reflected in the ways in which policy is made.
Sustainability requires the enforcement of wider responsibilities for the
impacts of decisions. This
requires changes in the legal and institutional frameworks that will enforce
the common interest.

27. CONCLUSION
 The strategy for sustainable development aims to promote harmony
among
 Human brings and between humanity and nature.
 , The pursuit of sustainable development requires:
 · A political system that secures effective citizen participation in
decision making.
 · An economic system that is able to generate surpluses and technical
knowledge on a self-reliant and
 Sustained basis
 · A social system that provides for solutions for the tensions arising
from disharmonious development.
 · A production system that respects the obligation to preserve the
ecological base for development,
 · A technological system that can search continuously for new
solutions,
 · An international system that fosters sustainable patterns of trade and
finance, and
 · An administrative system that is flexible and has the capacity for self-
correction.
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28. Reference:
Chapter 1 and 2 - Our Common Future, Brundtland Report,UN.1987
Thank you…
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