The Human Development Report 1994 introduced the concept of human security. Human development is a broader concept a process of widening the range of people s choices. Human security means that people can exercise these choices safely and freely and that they can be fairly confident that the opportunities they have today will not be lost tomorrow. It thus implies both intragenerational and intergenerational equity. Sustainability is an important dimension of human development.
Human development is a process of enlarging people s choices.
But such enhancement must be for both present and future generations without sacrificing one for the other. These have a common core, not to be missed, with human development.