Agendas For Sustainability

Download or read book Agendas for Sustainability written by Mary MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the book presents similarities and differences in problem definition, objectives, principles, priorities and actions across eleven of the major agendas put forward for environment and development after Rio. Points of divergence and areas of common ground are investigated for over 30 environment and development-related topics, such as biodiversity, consumption patterns, trade, urbanization, population, education, deforestation and water resources.