Local communities and the sustainable development
The most authoritative and frequently quoted definition given to the sustainable
development is that provided by the United Nation’s World Commission on Environment and
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Develoment in the Brundtland Report (1987), stating that it refers to the development meeting the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs, and contains within it two key concepts: „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.