The Earth Summit at Rio
Title | The Earth Summit at Rio PDF eBook |
Author | Ranee K. L. Panjabi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781555532833 |
The first comprehensive examination of the Rio Earth Summit's accomplishments and failures, exploring in detail the political and economic conflicts that arose between developed and developing nations.
Agenda 21
Title | Agenda 21 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | 9789211005097 |
Only One Earth
Title | Only One Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Felix Dodds |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1136261907 |
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.
Earth Summit II
Title | Earth Summit II PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Osborn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134054068 |
In June 1997, heads of government and senior representatives from over 130 countries met in New York to consider what progress had been made since the first Earth Summit in 1992, and la decide upon priorities for the future. Earth Summit II presents the principal official documents agreed al the Summit alongside an authoritative analysis of where progress is and is not being made, the reasons for this, and the priorities of the parties involved. Finally, the authors look forward to the ten-year follow-up in 2002, and propose methods for ensuring that that event is both effective and participatory. Insightful and comprehensive, this will be essential reading for policy makers, lobbyists and students on environment and development courses.
Agenda 21
Title | Agenda 21 PDF eBook |
Author | United Nations |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-03-03 |
Genre | Agenda 21 |
ISBN | 9781482672770 |
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.
Agenda 21
Title | Agenda 21 PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Sitarz |
Publisher | Nova Publishing Company |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
The official but very lengthy and complex U.N. document has eloquently edited and clarified for use by all audiences.
The Roads from Rio
Title | The Roads from Rio PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Chasek |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2012-04-23 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1136450882 |
At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements points to an unprecedented achievement, but is worth examining for its accomplishments and shortcomings. This book provides a review of twenty years of multilateral environmental negotiations (1992-2012). The authors have participated in most of these negotiating processes and use their first-hand knowledge as writers for the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin as they illustrate the changes that have taken place over the past twenty years. The chapters examine the proliferation of meetings, the changes in the actors and their roles (governments, nongovernmental organizations, secretariats), the interlinkages of issues, the impact of scientific advice, and the challenges of implementation across negotiating processes, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the UN Forum on Forests, the chemicals conventions (Stockholm, Basel and Rotterdam), the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Migratory Species and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.