The issues involved here are best examined through:
• Consideration of the over-riding priority to be givento meeting the essential needs of the world’s poor (North/South environmental perspectives).
• Examining the limits of existing technology and social organisation having regard to the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.
• Understanding the importance of social and economic equity within and between generations.
• Consideration of the need for a progressive transformation and integration of the economy and
society of all nations in terms of sustainability.
• The importance of economic and social justice withinand between nations as part of this process.