Allen (1980) puts forward his definition of sustainable development as 'development that is likely to achieve lasting satisfaction of human needs and improvement of the quality of human life'. The important phrase to consider in this definition is 'likely to achieve'. This concept in theory can be effective and implemented successfully, however we can critically discuss the concept in terms of what and who is to be involved, with relevance to the world that we live …showed first 75 words of 1125 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1125 total…growing problem and frustration roots from the results that these summits have failed to achieve. Many countries that are already in desperate need of help are getting poorer and poorer with many programmes been constructed to solve this problem. Even in 1987 in the WCED's report entitled Our Common Future, had highlighted and stressed the central importance of global cooperation, yet that has not really been evident with reference to the worlds current situation 15 years later.