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Oct 25th, 2009
Oct 25th, 2009
Archive for the tag 'Climate Change'
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Jul 23rd, 2009
Jul 23rd, 2009
Article: Sustainable Development: a History of Two Words and Few Facts
In 1987, the United Nations Environment Programme, led by the former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, worked examining the position of the contemporary world and demonstrated with scientific data that the global society was destroying the environment and affecting wide segments of the worldwide population by submitting them to poverty. This analysis was published in a book named “Our Common Future,, based on the Brundtland Report conclusions. In this report, the term
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Jun 17th, 2009
Jun 17th, 2009
Article: Social-political Sustainability: the Human Element
Copyright (c) 2008 Jackson Kern
It is commonly accepted that the project of sustainable development is conceptually composed of three constituent parts. These parts are (1) environmental sustainability, (2) economic sustainability, and (3) social-political sustainability. The United Nations 2005 World Summit refers to the “interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars” of sustainable development as environmental protection, economic development and social development. The
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Jun 16th, 2009
Jun 16th, 2009
Article: Sustainable Development: What Does it Mean and Who Wants to Tell You?
Copyright (c) 2008 Daniel Lafleche
Today’s journals of trade and popular culture are all but awash in the buzzwords ’sustainable’ and ’sustainability’. Here, we are obliged to raise the red flag and warn of lurking danger. These diverse and many advocates do a great disservice in more ways than they know.
For in this great sea of ’sustainability’, which spans business strategies and regimens of weight loss, one all too easily loses sight