1st Edition

Agendas for Sustainability Environment and Development into the 21st Century

By Mary MacDonald Copyright 1998
    140 Pages
    by Routledge

    136 Pages
    by Routledge

    Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the book presents similarities and differences in problem definition, objectives, principles, priorities and actions across eleven of the major agendas put forward for environment and development after Rio.
    Points of divergence and areas of common ground are investigated for over 30 environment and development-related topics, such as biodiversity, consumption patterns, trade, urbanization, population, education, deforestation and water resources.

    1 A big build-up 2 The agenda-setting process 3 Economic considerations 4 Social development 5 The well-being of ecosystems 6 Agenda 21 and other sustainable development agendas 7 Progress on the implementation of the agendas 8 Agenda-setting for sustainability

    Biography

    Mary MacDonald is Director of Policy and Research at the Earth Council and an Affiliated Scientist of the Stockholm Environment Institute.