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Environmental Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond: A Framework for World Development*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Uttam Dabholkar
Uttam Dabholkar
Affiliation:
Chief, Development Planning and Cooperation Unit, United Nations Environment Programme, P.O. Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.
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The United Nations General Assembly, at its forty-second session, in 1987, adopted the ‘Environmental Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond’ as a framework to guide national action and international cooperation for environmentally sound development. The Environmental Perspective had been prepared by member governments in response to the General Assembly resolution 38/161 of 19 December 1983, which called for shared perceptions of long-term environmental issues and of the appropriate efforts needed to deal successfully with the challenge of protecting and enhancing the environment, aspirational goals for the world community, and a long-term agenda for action. The Perspective was prepared through a linked process of direct intergovernmental consultation and review, and the preparation by a Commission of eminent individuals, chaired Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway, of the report ‘Our Common Future’.

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , Spring 1989 , pp. 49 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1989

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References

Our Common Future: World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University Press. Oxford. England. UK: xv + 400 pp., 1987.Google Scholar
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 38/161 of 19 12 1983, UN Document GA/6935, 13 01 1984 pp. 258–60.Google Scholar
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 42/186 of 22 12 1987, UN Document A/42/49, pp. 141–54.Google Scholar
Note: Environmental Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond has now been published as a beautifully illustrated edition (vi + 34 pp., 1988) by UNEP, PO Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya, whence it is available on request.Google Scholar