PSCI 2602 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Global Environmental Politics, Rio Declaration On Environment And Development, Brundtland Commission
29 Nov 2017
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Week 10 chapter 14 the political economy of the environment. It is accelerating the destructive process of too many people consuming too many natural resources with no concern for equality or justice. (392) Fauna (393: sustainable development, development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (394) The rio (earth) summit: put environment and development on the agendas of global leaders, reinforced that more growth was compatible with a better global environment. (395, rio declaration on environment and development, and agenda 21. (395) Johannesburg and beyond: designed to establish specific targets to improve implementation of the rio goals as well as to develop a strategy to implement the un millennium development goals. (395) It does not have the depth or content to restrain the ecological impacts of the globalization of production, consumption, trade, and corporations. (397) In the lr, economic growth will improve environmental institutions and governance.
