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Category : Environmental degradation
Languages : en
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Earth Summit +5: Sustaining the future
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Category : Environmental degradation
Languages : en
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Our Common Future
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ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Sustaining the Future
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Category : Sustainable development
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Just Sustainabilities
Author: Robert Doyle BullardPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849771774
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises. This book argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice.
Shaping the future we want
Author: Buckler, CaroleePublisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231000535
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Agenda 21
Author: United NationsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482672770
Category : Agenda 21
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Its purpose is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels. The "21" in Agenda 21 refers to the 21st century.
Only One Earth
Author: Felix DoddsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136261907
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the challenges that we face twenty years from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," in Rio, in particular in the areas of economics and governance and the role of stakeholders. It puts forward a set of recommendations that the international community must address now and in the the future. It reminds us of the planetary boundaries we must all live within and and what needs to be addressed in the next twenty years for democracy, equity and fairness to survive. Finally it proposes through the survival agenda a bare minimum of what needs to be done, arguing for a series of absolute minimum policy changes we need to move forward.
Facing the future
Author: The Age of Sustainable Development
Author: Jeffrey D. SachsPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231539002
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development. Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.
The Future of Sustainability
Author: Marco KeinerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402049080
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book presents a broad discussion on sustainable development, rethinking and improving its effectiveness as a paradigm of today and tomorrow. Outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists offer their timely assessment on the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading? How can the world become more just and equitable, and how can future development be sustained to adequately address economic, social, and – perhaps most important – environmental issues?