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Bukar Shaib, Nigeria. Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development 1983–86. Special Advisor to Le President of Nigeria 198O–83, Nigerian Ambassador to Rome la. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources 1968–78.
Vladimir Sokolov, USSR. Director, Institute of Evolutionary Animal Morphology and Ecology. USSR Academy of Sciences; Professor and Head of Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University; Deputy Chairman, Section of Chemical and Technological and Biological Sciences. Presidium, USSR Academy of Sciences.
Janez Stanovnik, Yugoslavia, Member, Presidium of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia; Professor, University of Llubljana; Executive Secretary. UN Economic Commission for Europe 1967–83: Member of the Federal Cabinet and Federal Executive Council 1966–67.
Maurice Strong, Canada. President, American Water Development, Inc.; former Under-Secretary General and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations: Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa 1985–86: Chairman of the Board, Petro-Canada 1976–78; Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme 1973–75; Secretary General, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 1970–72.
Jim Marshall, Canada. Secretary General of the Commission and ex officio member; Director of Environment, OECD 1978–84: Secretary (Deputy Minister), Canadian Ministry of State for Urban Affairs 1974–76; Canadian Commissioner General. UN Conference on Human Settlements 1975–76: Assistant Secretary, Canadian Ministry of State for Urban Affairs 1972.
The Commissions Mandate
The Commission's Mandate, officially, adopted ,at its Inaugural Meeting in Geneva on 1–3 October 1984, sates:
The World Commission on Environment and Development has been established at a time of unprecedented growth in pressures on the global environment, with grave predictions about the human future becoming commonplace.
The Commission is confident that it is possible to build a future that is more prosperous, more just, and more secure because it rests on policies and practices that serve to expand and sustain the ecological basis of development.
The Commission is convinced, however, that this will happen without significant changes in current approaches: changes in perspectives, attitudes and life styles; changes in certain critical policies and the ways in which they are formulated and applied; changes in the nature of cooperation between governments, business, science, and people: changes in certain forms of international cooperation which have proved incapable of tackling many environment and development issues: changes, above all, in the level of understanding and commitment by people. organizations and governments.
