Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• The most comprehensive definition of Sustainable development was contained in the report of Brundtland (WCED, 1987) which states that
• Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:
• the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
• the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs.