ENV345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wced, Food Security, Public Health
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Article 1 notes: rethinking sustainable development within the framework of poverty and urbanization in developing countries. In the 1980s: world commission on environment and development (wced, 1987: developed to address the need for environmental protection policies. Scope of sustainable development was broadened to include: public health, population growth and migration, global poverty alleviation. Un (2(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1007)(cid:895): (cid:1005)(cid:1006) (cid:271)illio(cid:374) of the (cid:449)ord"s populatio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) the de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tries li(cid:448)e (cid:271)elo(cid:449) the po(cid:448)erty li(cid:374)e. Africa was identified as the only region where incidence of poverty has been increasing overtime. Developing countries are expected to experience a substantial rate of urbanization in the future. Urban population of africa, is projected to more than triple to about 1. 3 billion in 2050. Today the world has been facing emerging challenges: multiple financial, economic, population, energy crisis, hunger, income inequality climate change rapid urbanization food security. There is an urgent need for a stricter and a more holistic approach to manage these challenges.
