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Commission on Environment and Development. The commission´s report
 
Commission on Environment and Development. The commission´s report
 
was finally presented in 1987 and established the concept of
 
was finally presented in 1987 and established the concept of
</span></span><span lang="en-US">''<span style="text-decoration: none;">sustainable</span>'' development.</span></span></font></font></font>
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</span></span><span lang="en-US">''<span style="text-decoration: none;">sustainable</span>'' development.</span></span></font></font></font>  
  
 
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protection of air, soil, water and all forms of life - from which,
 
protection of air, soil, water and all forms of life - from which,
 
ultimately, planetary stability was inseparable. Therefor, for the
 
ultimately, planetary stability was inseparable. Therefor, for the
first time poverty reduction was linked with environmentalism and  
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first time poverty reduction was linked with environmentalism and
vice versa. </span></span></span></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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vice versa. </span></span></span></font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">The
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">The
 
findings of this report led to the first Earth Summit - the UN
 
findings of this report led to the first Earth Summit - the UN
 
Conference on Environment and Development - at Rio de Janeiro in
 
Conference on Environment and Development - at Rio de Janeiro in
1992, and to the Agenda 21.</span></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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1992, and to the Agenda 21.</span></font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Today,
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Today,
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agenda. But as the report indicates, arriving at a commonly accepted
 
agenda. But as the report indicates, arriving at a commonly accepted
 
definition of </span></span><span lang="en-US">''<span style="text-decoration: none;">sustainable</span>'' development</span><span lang="en-US">
 
definition of </span></span><span lang="en-US">''<span style="text-decoration: none;">sustainable</span>'' development</span><span lang="en-US">
remains a challenge for all the actors in the development process.</span></span></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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remains a challenge for all the actors in the development process.</span></span></font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><br></font></font></font>  
  
== <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Prominent Definitions:</span></u></font></font></font></font></font></font> ==
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== <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Prominent Definitions:</span></u></font></font></font></font></font></font> ==
  
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Oxford
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Oxford
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Dictionary:</span></u></font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span lang="en-US">''<span style="text-decoration: none;">sustainable</span>''</span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span lang="en-US">''<span style="text-decoration: none;">sustainable</span>''</span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></font></font></font><font><font><font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><br></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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</span></span></span></font></font></font><font><font><font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><br></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">(1) involving the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment;</font></font></font></font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">(1) involving the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment;</font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">(2) that can continue or be continued for a long time</font></font></font></font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">(2) that can continue or be continued for a long time</font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span lang="en-US"><u>GTZ:</u></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span lang="en-US"><u>GTZ:</u></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span>''<span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(</span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Declared</span> in 2005 sustainable development to be the corporate guiding principle)</span>''<span lang="en-US">  
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</span></span>''<span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(</span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Declared</span> in 2005 sustainable development to be the corporate guiding principle)</span>''<span lang="en-US">
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</span></span></font></font></font></font></font></font>  
  
 
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">For
 
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the work of GTZ, sustainable development means:</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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the work of GTZ, sustainable development means:</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font> <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"></font></font></font></font></font></font>
 
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#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">supporting </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">economic growth for more prosperity in partner countries</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">supporting </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">economic growth for more prosperity in partner countries</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">ensuring
 
#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">ensuring
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">equal opportunities for rich and poor, North and South, women and men</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">equal opportunities for rich and poor, North and South, women and men</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font> <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"></font></font></font></font></font></font>
 
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Reinhard
 
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project in development cooperation is sustainable</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font> <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"></font></font></font></font></font></font>
 
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#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">if
 
#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">if
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">there were built up adequate structures which enable the counterpart or beneficiary to successfully react on changing environmental conditions (problem solving capacity)</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">if
 
#<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">if
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">there are planned and unplanned multiplier effects (Multiplikatorwirkungen), in a way that benefits spread to a wider population</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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A Introduction to the Concept of Sustainability

History: 

Sustainability did not play any role in development projects until the late 1980s. But a steady growing population, especially in the developing world, environmental worries like deforestation, desertification, air pollution, toxic waste and ongoing scarceness of clean water and the absence of ground-braking success in poverty reduction putted it on the Agenda of the United Nations.


In 1983 the UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar invited Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland to chair a World Commission on Environment and Development. The commission´s report was finally presented in 1987 and established the concept of sustainable development.

Brundtland declared that only sustainable development could lead to the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of air, soil, water and all forms of life - from which, ultimately, planetary stability was inseparable. Therefor, for the first time poverty reduction was linked with environmentalism and vice versa.

The findings of this report led to the first Earth Summit - the UN Conference on Environment and Development - at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and to the Agenda 21.

Today, more then 20 years after the release of the Brundtland Report, sustainable development is one of the key issues on the political agenda. But as the report indicates, arriving at a commonly accepted definition of sustainable development remains a challenge for all the actors in the development process.


Prominent Definitions:

Oxford Dictionary:

sustainable

(1) involving the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment;

(2) that can continue or be continued for a long time


GTZ: (Declared in 2005 sustainable development to be the corporate guiding principle)

For the work of GTZ, sustainable development means:

  1. supporting economic growth for more prosperity in partner countries

  1. ensuring

equal opportunities for rich and poor, North and South, women and men

  1. utilizing

natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations



Reinhard Stockmann: (Scholar)

A project in development cooperation is sustainable

  1. if

there were built up adequate structures which enable the counterpart or beneficiary to successfully react on changing environmental conditions (problem solving capacity)

  1. if

there are planned and unplanned multiplier effects (Multiplikatorwirkungen), in a way that benefits spread to a wider population

  1. if the project becomes a role model for others



Franz Nuscheler: (Scholar)

Nuscheler defines it as a

  1. permanent impact,
  2. economic efficient/ productive,

  1. social fair and
  2. environmental compatible 

development („dauerhafte, wirtschaftlich leistungsfähige, sozial gerechte und umweltverträgliche Entwicklung“)''


Links

  1. Brundtland Report: Our Common Future
  2. GTZ: Sustainable Development