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What do you understand by sustainable development? Discuss the elements of sustainable development as proposed in the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals Report-2015.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Social Change in Modern Society

The World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland, defined sustainable development in Our Common Future (1987) as development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. Its sociological force lies in joining equity to ecology: the constraint is not scarcity alone but the distribution…

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