1. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, Brundtland G. H., Ed. (Oxford Univ. Press, 1987)See especially the classic treatise on sustainable development by the (, and the more comprehensive and analytical update by the National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development, Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999).
2. Holdren J. P., Daily G. C., Ehrlich P. R., in Defining and Measuring Sustainability The Biogeophysical Foundations, , Munasinghe M., Shearer W., Eds. (World Bank, Washington, DC, 1995), pp. 3-17A number of the formulations in this section are adapted from.
3. The quoted formulation is from Robert Kates.
4. The Population Bomb (Ballantine, New York, 1968)This was the key insight in Paul Ehrlich's, as well as one of those in Harrison Brown's prescient earlier book, The Challenge of Man's Future Viking, New York, 1954). The elementary but discomfiting truth of it may account for the vast amount of ink, paper, and angry energy that has been expended trying in vain to refute it.
5. WHO, The World Health Report 2002 (WHO, Geneva, 2002)see also K. R. Smith, M. Ezatti, Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 30, 291 (2005).