BRUNDTLAND REPORT:OUR COMMON FUTURE

1. BRUNDTLAND REPORT:
OUR COMMON FUTURE
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
SS – MURP – 1, 2016

2.  THOUGHT OF WORDS
 INTRODUCTION
 OVERVIEW
 CONCEPT
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MATRIX
 GOALS
 REPORT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
 REFERENCES

4.  1987 | Brundtland Report: Our Common Future
 Our Common Future - by most people known as the Brundtland Report - was published in
1987 and is the outcome of the work by the World Commission on Environment and
Development. The report laid out the concept of sustainability as containing environmental,
economic and social aspects.
 In 1983, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) convened by the
United Nations was created to address growing concern about the consequences of the
accelerating deterioration of the human environment and the natural resources. The
outcome of the work by the WCED was the report 'Our Common Future'.

5.  It addressed governments, businesses and, above all, people whose welfare should be a key
element for environmental and development policies. It provided a comprehensive overview
of the major global environmental crisis and suggestions on how to solve these problems. The
Brundtland report placed environmental issues firmly on the political agenda with the aim to
discuss environment and development as a single and identical issue.
 The report gathered different issues related to environmental problems and launched a
comprehensive gateway to sustainability, which included social, economic, political-
institutional and environmental criteria.
 The Brundtland Report, has been criticized for toning down the social dimension of
sustainability by organizations who have worked to maintain the original holistic idea. Among
these are The Wuppertal Institute who further processed the Brundtland report.

6.  The report highlighted three fundamental
components to sustainable development:
environmental protection, economic growth
and social equity. The environment should
be conserved and our resource base
enhanced, by gradually changing the ways
in which we develop and use technologies.
 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 should be revived and
developing nations should be allowed a
growth of equal quality to the developed
nations.

9.  The Brundtland Report and the concept of sustainability can be seen as an attempt to
create awareness of the disturbing relations between human society and the natural
environment, focusing on institutional, economic, ecological and social aspects.
Sustainability is, however, not a clear cut homogeneous concept.
 It is a complex concept, which there is in praxis no consensus about, apart from the overall
and quite broad principles.
 Today, the term is very commonly used but in effect the concept of sustainability is actively
re-designed for the specific purpose at any given time and context. Nevertheless, the birth of
the Brundtland report sustainability concept has influenced environmental laws and planning
in a wide range of countries.

10.  1. Squaring the circle? Some thoughts on the idea of sustainable development, by John
Robinson in Ecological Economics 48, 2004.
 2. The environmental social interface of sustainable development: capabilities, social capital,
institutions, by Markku Lehtonen in Ecological Economics 49, 2004.
 3. Course for sustainability in Venice 12-25 September 2004, country assessments, by
participants.
 4. Water and sanitation in the UNECE region: achievements in regulatory aspects, institutional
arrangements and monitoring since Rio, trends and challenges, ECE/AC.25/2004/5, 12
November 2003.
 5. Sustainable development of human settlements in the UNECE region: progress and
challenges, ECE/AC.25/2004/4 plus Adds. 1 and 2, 19 November 2003.
 6. Draft UNECE strategy for education for sustainable development, CEP/2004/15,
CEP/AC.13/2004/8/Rev.1, 3 August 2004.

11. THANK YOU