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An important document [11] submitted to that conference, and a document
whose main enunciation, namely a denition of the concept of sustainable de-
velopment, became a cornerstone of the result of the conference, was commonly
known as the

.
The nal document of the conference was the

Brundtland Report

Agenda'21 report [12].

Denition 1 Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs. [11]

It seems assumed in the above denition that it is indeed possible to meet the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs !
>From [13] we lift the quote taken from [14]:

Quotation 1 Sustainable Development is a process of social and economic bet-
terment that satises the needs and values of all interest groups, while maintain-
ing future options and conserving natural resources and diversity.

The above appears to have been a \rst" denition of sustainable development.
It also appears that it did not drew much attention. The next characterisation
is due to [15]:

Characterisation 1 Sustainable Development does not mean no development.
It means improving methods for resource management in an environment of
increasing demand for resource.

It was referred to in [16]. The next quotation is due to [17]:

Characterisation 2 Sustainability means that the evolution and development
of the future should be based on continuing and renewable processes and not on
the exploitation and exhaustion of the principal or the capital of living resource
base.

It was also referred to in [16]. The last characterisation is due to [18]:

Characterisation 3 There are over 70 dierent denitions of sustainable de-
velopment, oering a number of possible modications of the development process
and a number of dierent reasons for doing so.

Also this was quoted in [16]. Finally we quote from:

Source: Paul Samson, July 1995
http://greencross.unige.ch/greencross/digiforum/concept.html