sions on global society, fact which materialized in a report titled “The limits of growth” (Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows et al., Universe Book, New York, 1972), presented by the famous Club of Rome, in an attempt to draw attention to the accelerated growth of economy, which takes place disre- garding the key dimensions of the environment. The UNO conference on Environment, taking place in Stockholm,
in 1972, was the first international meeting „officially recognizing humanity’s failure in managing the biosphere’s resources”. The gaps existing between the industrialized North (the developed countries) and the impoverished South (the developed countries) was due to the access to geostrategic resources required for the industrial development in the machine age (a eloquent example is the distribution of coal mines, respectively 95% in the northern hemisphere, where the industrial phenomenon was developed and expanded, creating from the beginning in the first historical stage a gap between the North and South). The final declaration of the United Nations Conference on the
Environment in Stockholm had as a principle the drafting of „quality of living” requirements which in time would create an equitable system for the distribution of resources across the world. In the 8th decade of the last century the concept of development was shaped and crystallized through
durable the Brundtland
Commission (The World commission for Environment and Development), a new and developing theory that is aimed at insuring a better quality of life for now as well as for following generations. In the Brundtland Commission’s view, durable development is synonymous with „ensuring the requirements of the present generation without compromising the abilities of future generations to satisfy their necessities”. The „Our common future” report emphasizes the fact that sometimes
economic growth may have negative consequences, leading to a deterioration in the quality of life and consequently it is absolutely necessary for economic growth to evolve in close connection to conservation and with reconstruction of the environment, a big role being attributed to the development of several industrial branches with a low or inexistent degree of pollution, not to mention the importance of recyclable and biodegradable products. In the report, an emphasis is put on a lasting development, not only in an economic perspective but also in a political one. From an economic point of view, the report aims to settle some quantity coordinates for lasting devel- opment in relationship to the sought necessities and ensuring the quality of life so that economic growth shall be linked with ecological factors. From a geopolitical point of view, the role that the main actors play (states, Transna- tional Companies, and others) as owners of geo-strategic resources is, through the lens of economic development, determined in correlation with cur- rent environmental laws. According to this report, the requirement of a sus- tainable development can be met with the help of:
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