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Our Common Future—Call for Action*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Affiliation:
Prime Minister of Norway and Chairman of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Office of the Prime Minister, Akersgatan 42, Oslo 1, Norway.
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When this century began, neither human beings nor technology had the power radically to alter planetary systems. As the century draws to a close, not only do vastly increased human populations and their activities possess that power, but we are also faced with major unintended changes that are occurring in the atmosphere, in soil, in water, among plants and animals, and in the relationships among all of them.

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Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , Winter 1987 , pp. 291 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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† See ‘Our Common Future: The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York: xv + 347 + 35 pp., 1987Google Scholar—reviewed in our latest issue by Dr Martin W. Holdgate, Chief Environmental Scientist and Deputy Secretary, UK Department of the Environment, and Director-General-elect of IUCN.—Ed.