GGR345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Our Common Future, United Nations General Assembly
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Logistics focus on pp 99-105 in adams of ch. 4 pcarbontradewatch. org (from recommended readings. go to it) Assuming we know the future needs in the future. assuming that undev. nations have the same needs as dev. nations. Public and private secotrs can use it anyway they want because of the loose definition. Brought it to the front in international politics. Contrasting to the last point for negatives: there is no simple single meaning of sustainable dev": a wide range of diff meanings are attached to the term. Far from making the phrase useless, it is precisely because of its ability to host divergent ideas that sustainable dev. has proved to be so useful, and has become do dominant. Fuses the dieas of environemnet and devlopment there is still a huge rift between the two in terms of theory and practive. Ideological componenet: mainstream position that problems that can be solved by technolgoy.
