POLS 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Earth Summit, Rio Declaration On Environment And Development, Sustainable Development

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3370
• Professor: Jaclyn Cockburn

Document Summary

Pols 3370 environmental politics & governance notes september 22. Spatial dimensions local, global, national, international. In a lot of ways, sustainable development is measured only through temporal dimensions: putting it into practice. Why should we prioritize one area of environmental policy over another. What is sustainable development: this is becoming an all-encompassing term used in environmental policy, contestable terms: sustainable development, democracy, freedom of speech, etc. How do you know: definitions: the ability to meet needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This book became the cornerstone of the rio summit, a lot of the language used there came out of it: by and large it is difficult for people to think really far down the road. The earth summit (1992: the united nations conference on environment and development (unced) Also known as the rio summit, rio conference, and earth.