ENV310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: United Nations Environment Programme, Endangered Species Act Of 1973, Intergovernmental Conference
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Chapter 2: international sustainable development events, agreements, and commitments. Ustai(cid:374)a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455)"s ti(cid:373)eli(cid:374)e: the first use of sustainability came from racheal carso(cid:374)"s book silent spring, as well as some other catastrophes such as the 1962 london fog and fires on cuyahoga river in ohio. First global conference for sustainability was the 1968 intergovernmental conference for. First time government were joining together to begin to understand environment degradation. I(cid:374) (cid:1005)97(cid:1004)"s prez ni(cid:454)so(cid:374) (cid:272)reated the natio(cid:374)al environmental policy act (nepa) through the. By mandating environmental assessments, the administration acknowledged the connection between development and environmental degradation, and the role of governments in managing development programs: early efforts to tie economic development to environmental resource conservation in the united. Kingdom likewise emerged in 1971 through the establishment of the international institute for. Main result of the stockholm conference was the establishment of several national environmental protection agencies and the united nations environment programme (unep)
