The World Summit on Sustainable Development: The Johannesburg ConferenceL. Hens, Bhaskar Nath Springer Science & Business Media, 2006 M02 28 - 422 pages The Johannesburg Earth Summit, which took place in the summer of 2002, confirmed the irreversible nature of the process that is founded upon the concept of Sustainable Development initially given form at Rio de Janeiro ten years earlier. This process is to be welcomed, while at the same time recognising the tremendous work that has taken place in converting this concept into a more concrete vision. The Sustainable Development concept relates to every human activity, covering the social, economic and ecological dimensions, which are often in conflict. Consequently, it is most important to include in research programmes some thought of the way people behave. In theory, the general elements of this inclusion are relatively easily defined. However, assessing the effects of one or another decision on all the interactions between the social, economic and ecological dimensions involves significant difficulties. All the more since we have to recognise, in all modesty, that humanity has not always excelled in the art of forward studies. In fact, the Precautionary Principle was introduced partly as a reaction to the sometimes blind confidence in technology and logic (even if it is sometimes invoked in an exaggerated manner). Nevertheless, the duty to act for the sake of present and future generations is pressing. Throughout history mankind has had to adapt and to innovate. Now, at st the beginning of the 21 century the urgent need for such adaptations is obvious. |
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... environmental degradation.............................103 8. The key challenges ... ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMITS: AN EVOLVING AGENDA ......113 A. NAJAM AND C.J. CLEVELAND 1. Introduction ...
... environmental degradation.............................103 8. The key challenges ... ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMITS: AN EVOLVING AGENDA ......113 A. NAJAM AND C.J. CLEVELAND 1. Introduction ...
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... environmental concerns as never before and provided the impetus for the ascent of those concerns to the top of the international agenda. Until that conference, and even after it for some time, environmental concerns had been almost the ...
... environmental concerns as never before and provided the impetus for the ascent of those concerns to the top of the international agenda. Until that conference, and even after it for some time, environmental concerns had been almost the ...
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... environmental-policy objectives to include the goals of 'sustainable and non-inflationary (economic) growth respecting the environment'. The UN Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, was the next ...
... environmental-policy objectives to include the goals of 'sustainable and non-inflationary (economic) growth respecting the environment'. The UN Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, was the next ...
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... environmental problems could be solved by science and technology, juxtaposed with Indira Gandhi's contribution that “poverty is the greatest polluter of the environment”. That Conference resulted in the establishment of environmental ...
... environmental problems could be solved by science and technology, juxtaposed with Indira Gandhi's contribution that “poverty is the greatest polluter of the environment”. That Conference resulted in the establishment of environmental ...
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... environmental protection in a world of rapidly growing recombinant DNA industry (CBD et al., 2001). However, in spite of this progress on the diplomatic front, the indicators of biodiversity continue to indicate accelerating species ...
... environmental protection in a world of rapidly growing recombinant DNA industry (CBD et al., 2001). However, in spite of this progress on the diplomatic front, the indicators of biodiversity continue to indicate accelerating species ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 POVERTY REDUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE | 35 |
References | 53 |
WATER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | 91 |
ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | 112 |
MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICALS FOR SUSTAINABLE | 135 |
A NECESSITY FOR SUSTAINABLE | 151 |
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SMALL ISLAND | 183 |
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ROLE | 241 |
SCIENCE RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE | 299 |
GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | 318 |
PARTNERSHIPS | 347 |
Analysis | 361 |
References | 371 |
List of Abbreviations | 395 |
Index | 403 |
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