Match List - I with List - II. List - I Reports List - II Year (A) Li… | Geography CUET question

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I Reports	List - II Year
(A) Limits to Growth	(I) 1993
(B) Small is Beautiful	(II) 1972
(C) Our Common Future	(III) 1974
(D) Agenda 21	(IV) 1987

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

(A) Limits to Growth — this matches (II) 1972. This is the Club of Rome Report, by Meadows and others.

(B) Small is Beautiful — this matches (III) 1974. This is a book by Schumacher.

(C) Our Common Future — this matches (IV) 1987. This is the Brundtland Commission’s Report.

(D) Agenda 21 — this matches (I) 1993. This is the report of the Rio Conference.

Note: Items (B) and (D) are taken from the pre-rationalised NCERT book. The latest edition (2026-27) does not have these two items. An extract of the pre-rationalised NCERT book is given below for the benefit of students.

NCERT (2026-27): “The notion of sustainable development emerged in the wake of general rise in the awareness of environmental issues in the late 1960s in Western World. It reflected the concern of people about undesirable effects of industrial development on the environment. The publication of ‘The Population Bomb’ by Ehrlich in 1968 and ‘The Limits to Growth’ by Meadows and others in 1972 further raised the level of fear among environmentalists in particular and people in general.”

“Concerned with the growing opinion of world community on the environmental issues, the United Nations established a World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) headed by the Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The Commission gave its report (also known as Brundtland Report) entitled ‘Our Common Future’ in 1987.”

Pre-rationalised NCERT: “Indian culture and civilisation have been very sensitive to the issues of population, resource and development for a long time. … His views were also re-echoed in the Club of Rome Report “Limits to Growth” (1972), Schumacher’s book “Small is Beautiful” (1974), Brundtland Commission’s Report “Our Common Future” (1987) and finally in the “Agenda-21 Report of the Rio Conference” (1993).”