ECOR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United Nations Environment Programme, Earth Summit 2002, Climate Summit
20 Oct 2017
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This book brought together research on toxicology, ecology and epidemology to suggest that agricultural pesticides were building to catastrophic levels. This was linked to damage to animal species and to human health. It shattered the assumption that the environment had an infinite capacity to absorb pollutants. 1968 - the club of rome, is established by 36 european economists and scientists. Its goal is to pursue a holistic understanding of the "world problematique". It commissions a study on global proportions to model and analyse the dynamic interactions between industrial production, population, environmental damage, food consumption and natural resource usage. 1971 - greenpeace starts up in canada and launches an aggressive agenda to stop environmental damage through civil protests and non-violent interference. 1971 international institute for environment and development (iied) established to seek ways to make economic progress without destroying the environmental resource base. 1972 united nations conference on the human environment, stockholm.
