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Brundtland Report
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) addresses issues of global concern, which include the global environmental problems caused by developed and developing nations. In the early 1980s, concern was mounting about the increasing environmental impacts such as global warming and ozone depletion that were occurring as the world's nations were raising their standards of living.
As a response, in 1983, the UN General Assembly convened the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) with the intent that it would address the concern for the mounting global environmental impacts of development. The chair of this commission was the Norwegian prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland. The World Commission on Environment and Development is often referred to simply as the Brundtland Commission. Its report, Our Common Future, published by ...
- Anthropocentrism
- Attfield, Robin
- Animal Ethics
- Adaptive Management
- Carbon Offsets
- Environmental Justice Ecology, Radical
- Biocentrism
- Bailey, Liberty Hyde
- Anthropocentrism
- Agriculture
- Consumption, Business Ethics and
- Environmental Law
- Brundtland Report
- Berry, Reverend Fr. Thomas
- Biocentric Egalitarianism
- Biodiversity
- Consumption, Consumer Ethics and
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
- Club of Rome (and Limits to Growth)
- Berry, Wendell
- Biocentrism
- Bright Green Environmentalism
- Ecological Footprint
- Environmental Values and Law
- Death of Environmentalism, The
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- Civic Environmentalism
- Business Ethics, Shades of Green
- Ethical Vegetarianism
- Forest Preservation Laws
- Earth Charter
- Borlaug, Norman
- Climate Ethics
- China
- Local Food Movement
- Green Ethics in the Legal Community
- Earth Day 1970
- Callicott, J. Baird
- Deep Ecology
- Conservation
- Marketing, Consumption Ethics and
- Green Law Trends
- Earth Summit
- Carson, Rachel
- Deep Green Theory
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Organic Trend
- Green Laws and Incentives
- Earthlife Africa
- d'Eaubonne, Françoise
- Ecocentrism
- Democracy
- Sustainability, Business Ethics and
- Post-Construction Landscape Laws
- Ecological Crisis, The Historical Roots of Our
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Ecofascism
- Development, Ethical Sustainability and
- Sustainability, Consumer Ethics and
- San Pedro Border Fence
- Endangered Species Act
- Fuller, Buckminster
- Ecofeminism/Ecological Feminism
- Ecological Restoration
- Western “Way of Life”
- Should Trees Have Standing?
- Environmental Ethics Journal
- Gandhi, Mohandas
- Economism
- Ecology
- Urban Tree Management Ordinances
- Environmental Policy Act, National
- Gore, Jr., Al
- Ecophenomenology
- Ecopedagogy and Ecodidactics
- Global Greens Charter
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- Environmental Pluralism
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- Green Altruism
- Hargrove, Dr. Eugene C.
- Gaia Hypothesis
- Environmental Justice
- Land Ethic
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- Green Party Ethical System, Four Pillars of the
- Environmental Policy
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- Hannover Principles
- Ethics and Science
- Philosophy and Environmental Crisis
- Lovelock, James Ephraim
- Human Values and Sustainability
- Genetic Engineering
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Marsh, George Perkins
- Instrumental Value
- Globalization
- Silent Spring
- Mathews, Freya
- Intergenerational Justice
- Green Liberalism
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Muir, John
- International Association of Environmental Philosophy
- Green Party, German
- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
- Mumford, Lewis
- Intrinsic Value
- Greenwashing
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- Naess, Arne
- Kantian Philosophy and the Environment
- Precautionary Principle
- United Tasmania Group
- Passmore, John
- Marshall, Alan (Libertarian Extension)
- Preservation
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- Pragmatism
- Sierra Club
- Rolston, Holmes, III
- Strong and Weak Sustainability
- Social Ecology
- Singer, Peter
- Sustainability, Seventh Generation
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- Steffen, Alex
- Sustainability and Distributive Justice
- Technology
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Utilitarianism
- Urbanization
- Warren, Karen
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