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100			_aWorld Commission on Environment and Development
245		0	_aOur common future
260			_aDelhi
260			_bOxford University Press
260			_c1987
300			_a383 p.
520			_aMost of today's decision makers will be dead before the planet suffers the full consequences of acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion, widespread desertification, and species loss. Most of today's young voters will be alive. The World Commission on Environment and Development, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway, was set up as an independent body in 1983 by the United Nations. Its brief was to re-examine the critical environment and development problems on the planet and to formulate realistic proposals to solve them, and to ensure that human progress will be sustained through development without bankrupting the resources of future generations. Our Common Future serves notice that the time has come for a marriage of economy and ecology, so that governments and their people can take responsibility not just for environmental damage, but for the policies that cause the damage. Some of these policies threaten the survival of the human race. They can be changed. But we must act now. The relevance of the book to South Asia is underlined by the addition of a Foreword to this edition by Mr Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India.
650			_aEnvironment policy
700			_aGandhi, Rajiv (fwd.)
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