forestry, sustainable development, our common future

1. BRUNDTLAND
COMMISSION AND
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPEMENT
MEGHANA ROSE JOSEPH
2017-17-006
NRM Department
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2. Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Norwegian politician
First female Prime minister of Norway-1981
Director-General of the World Health
Organization from 1998 to 2003.
Chaired the World Commission on
Environment and Development (WCED)
widely referred to as the Brundtland
Commission in 1983
Submitted report on Our Common Future in
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3. The World Commission on Environment
and Development first met in October
1984 and published its Report 900 days
later, in April 1987.Over those few days:
• The drought-triggered,
environment-development crisis in
Africa peaked, putting 36 million
people at risk, killing perhaps a
million.
• A leak from a pesticides factory in
Bhopal, India, killed more than
2,000 people and blinded and
injured over 200,000 more.
• Liquid gas tanks exploded in
Mexico City, killing 1,000 and
leaving thousands more homeless.
• The Chernobyl nuclear reactor
explosion sent nuclear fallout
across Europe, increasing the risks
of future human cancers.
• Agricultural chemicals, solvents,
and mercury flowed into the Rhine
River during a warehouse fire in
Switzerland, killing millions of fish
and threatening drinking water in
the Federal Republic of Germany
and the Netherlands.
• An estimated 60 million people
died of diarrhoeal diseases related
to unsafe drinking water and
malnutrition; most of the victims
were children.
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4. Our common future
• Not a prediction but a possibility
• Possibility for a new era of economic growth,
one that must be based on policies that sustain
and expand the environmental resource base
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5. GLANCE THROUGH THE
REPORT
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6. PART-1 COMMON CONCERNS
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Chapter 1- A Threatened Future (symptoms and
causes, New approaches to environment and
development)
Chapter 2- Towards Sustainable Development
Chapter 3- The Role of the International Economy

7. PART-2 COMMON CHALLENGES
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• Chapter 4- Population and Human Resource
• Chapter 5- Food Security: Sustaining the Potential
• Chapter 6- Species and Ecosystems: Resources for Development
• Chapter 7- Energy: Choices for Environment and Development
• Chapter 8- Industry: Producing More With Less
• Chapter 9- The Urban Challenge

8. PART-3 COMMON ENDEAVOURS
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• Chapter 10- Managing The Commons
• Chapter 11- Peace, Security, Development, and
the Environment
• Chapter 12- Towards Common Action:
Proposals For Institutional and Legal Change

9. Brundtland report defines sustainable
development as :
‘Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs'
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TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

10. The report highlighted three fundamental
components to sustainable development:
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11. Critical objectives for environment and development policies
that follow from the concept of sustainable development
include:
• Reviving growth;
• Changing the quality of growth;
• Meeting essential needs for jobs, food, energy, water, and
sanitation;
• Ensuring a sustainable level of population;
• Conserving and enhancing the resource base:
• Reorienting technology and managing risk; and
• Merging environment and economics in decision making.
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12. FORESTRY
Chapter 5
• Forest watershed, wildlife, climate
• The crucial task is to balance the need to
exploit forests against the need to preserve
them
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13. • Sound forest policies can be based only on an
analysis of the capacity of the forests and the
land under them to perform various functions.
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• Intensive cultivation
• Live stock
• Timber production
• Agroforestry
• Watershed
Lead to clearing of forest for

14. • Programmes to preserve forest
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Local
people
Victims
Agents of
destruction
Entail changes in the way governments set development priorities,
as well as the evolution of greater responsibility to local governments
and communities.
Prices for forest products need to reflect the true resource value of the
goods.
Centre of integrated
forest management

15. • Portions of forests may be designated as prevention areas or
protected areas which could be set aside from agricultural
exploitation to conserve soil, water, and wildlife.
• They may also include marginal lands whose exploitation
accelerates land degradation through erosion or desertification.
• In this connection, the reforestation of degraded forest areas is
of utmost importance. Conservation areas or national parks can
also conserve genetic resources in their natural habitats.
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16. • Forestry can also be extended into agriculture
• Agroforestry
• The challenge today is to revive the old
methods, improve them, adapt them to the new
conditions and develop new ones
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17. International forestry research organizations should work
in various tropical countries in various ecosystems along
the lines now followed by the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research
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18. • “The Brundtland Report changed sustainable
development from a physical notion based on the
concept of sustainable yield in forestry and fisheries
to a much broader concept that linked economic and
ecological policies in an integrated framework,”
• This report laid the groundwork for the convening of
the 1992 Earth Summit and the adoption of Agenda
21, the Rio Declaration and to the establishment of
the Commission on Sustainable Development
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19. REFERENCE
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Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development:
Our Common Future

20. THANK YOU!!
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