POL 540 Study Guide - Final Guide: United Nations Environment Programme, Global Environment Facility, Least Developed Countries

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 540
• Professor: Abbas Gnamo

Document Summary

Focuses on how developing countries are managing the relationship between environment and development. As a result of a combination of pressure from global institutions, donors, and active citizen movements, the environment has assumed an important and rising status on the national political agendas of states in africa, latin america and asia. The theme of the article is continuity and change. People who contribute most to global environmental degradation are not the ones who will suffer the most. For example: 80% of the world"s climate changing carbon dioxide is produced by 25% of the world"s population (developed world). The economic importance of natural resources to a country"s economic development is a significant determinant of its position on a particular policy positions. For example: brazil has traditionally resisted calls to view the amazonian rainforest as part of the common heritage to mankind because of their strategic importance to the country"s economic development.