POLS 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United Nations Conference On Sustainable Development, Liberal Democracy, Millennium Development Goals

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Spatial dimensions local, global, national and international. Sustainable development: the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Meeting essential needs requires not only a new era of economic growth for nations in which the majority are poor, but an assurance that those poor get their fair share of the resources required to sustain that growth. Such equity would be aided by political systems that secure effective citizen participation in decision making and by greater democracy in international decision making. The united nations conference on environment and development (unced). 172 governments were brought together with 2400 ngo representatives and 17000 people at the parallel ngo global forum : overarching document of all official and national agreements on climate change are noted. Principle 1: the role of man human beings are at the centre of concern for sustainable development.

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