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The Brundtland report: ‘Our common future’
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The World Commission on Environment and Development presented its report to the world at a press conference in London, England on 27 April 1987 as discussed by the authors, which examines the critical issues of environment and development, suggests concrete and realistic proposals for dealing with them, and proposes far-reaching changes for implementing the proposals at national and international levels.Abstract:
The World Commission on Environment and Development presented its report to the world at a press conference in London, England on 27 April 1987. The report examines the critical issues of environment and development, suggests concrete and realistic proposals for dealing with them, and proposes far‐reaching changes for implementing the proposals at national and international levels.read more
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The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?
Martin Geissdoerfer,Martin Geissdoerfer,Paulo Savaget,Nancy Bocken,Nancy Bocken,Erik Jan Hultink +5 more
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Impact of culture, behavior and gender on green purchase intention
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An in-depth literature review of the evolving roles and contributions of universities to Education for Sustainable Development
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The impact of natural resources, energy consumption, and population growth on environmental quality: Fresh evidence from the United States of America
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The Brundtland commission: Environment and development to the year 2000
TL;DR: The methods adopted by the World Commission on Environment and Development in order to fulfil its mandate, and one of the problems (tropical rain forest destruction) that the WCED studied are described.