Published in 1990, Our Common Future – by the United Nations body The World Commission on Environment and Development – sets out the case for promoting economic models that at the very least do not harm the environment, and in the best-case scenarios protect it. One of the foundational pieces of literature on the increasingly popular theory that sustainable economies must be linked intrinsically to ecological wellbeing, this report strikes a positive note in advocating the policies necessary to end the destruction of natural resources and for human progress and development to continue in a way that does not rob future generations of health and prosperity.
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Published in 1990, Our Common Future – by the United Nations body The World Commission on Environment and Development – sets out the case for promoting economic models that at the very least do not harm the environment, and in the best-case scenarios protect it. One of the foundational pieces of literature on the increasingly popular theory that sustainable economies must be linked intrinsically to ecological wellbeing, this report strikes a positive note in advocating the policies necessary to end the destruction of natural resources and for human progress and development to continue in a way that does not rob future generations of health and prosperity.