The Brundtland Challenge and the Cost of Inaction
The Brundtland Challenge and the Cost of Inaction

Author: Royal Society of Canada

Publisher: IRPP

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780886450762

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From the back cover: Environment is now at the top of the public agenda. This publication...reports on two workshops held in early 1988 to discuss aspects of environmental issues...The workshop members were drawn from number of professions and came with wide experience. They were much concerned about environmental issues and determined to recommend action on them. Accordingly, they refused to be constrained by workshop titles or fixed agendas, and ranged widely over a number of important questions. These included the basic nature of the environmental issue; the apparent failure, over the past couple of decades, of our decision making processes and institutions in attacking the causes - "why have we not done better?" - and the reasons for that; and what now must be done. They ended with a series of recommendations which set out the results of their best thinking at that time.

Population, Consumption, and the Environment
Population, Consumption, and the Environment

Author: Harold Coward

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1995-11-16

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0791499936

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This book concentrates on the different ways in which the major world religions view the problems of overpopulation and excess resource consumption and how they approach possible solutions. After examining the natural background and the human context, the book moves on to consider both religious and secular approaches. It analyzes how a particular religion's scriptures comment on the nature of people, the environment, people's place in the environment, and their roles and responsibilities. The historical dimension is derived from reviewing a particular religion's record in teaching about these issues, often demonstrating how broader issues are addressed. Practical lessons are learned from religious guidelines that deal with current problems and offer solutions. The authors consider Aboriginal spirituality, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religions. The secular approaches include secular ethics, North-South relations, market forces, the status of women, and international law.

Sustaining Earth
Sustaining Earth

Author: D.J.R. Angell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1349210919

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How much do we understand about the nature and possible consequences of environmental threats? How are individuals, industry and governments facing up to the destructive potential of ecological degradation? In Sustaining Earth, leading scientists describe and explain the principal environmental threats and their implications. Eminent statesmen, environmentalists and industrialists assess the world's response to these threats in the context of the recommendations of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) and the concept of sustainable development.

Governance Through Social Learning
Governance Through Social Learning

Author: Gilles Paquet

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0776604880

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Governance connotes the way an organization, an economy, or a social system co-ordinates and steers itself. Some insist that governing is strictly a top-down process guided by authority and coercion, while others emphasize that it emerges bottom-up through the workings of the free market. This book rejects these simplistic views in favour of a more distributed view of governance based on a mix of coercion, quid pro quo market exchange and reciprocity, on a division of labour among the private, public, and civic sectors, and on the co-evolution of these different integration mechanisms. This book is for both practitioners confronted with governance issues and for citizens trying to make sense of the world around them. Published in English.

Resistances
Resistances

Author: Sarah Murru

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1786609371

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Our world today is experimenting a time of great power but also of tremendous resistances. Everywhere, people are brought together by similar burdens and frustration and creatively think about how to counter the forms of domination they are ascribed to. In academia as well there is an awakening among scholars to further investigate these multiple forms of resistance and equip the field with useful and empowering knowledge. This book aims at presenting some of these findings and reflecting upon the implications, social relevance, and ethical challenges of the growing field of Resistance Studies.

Introduction to Sustainable Development - Volume I
Introduction to Sustainable Development - Volume I

Author: David V. J.Bell

Publisher: EOLSS Publications

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 1848262221

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Introduction to Sustainable Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Development and Economic Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on “Introduction to Sustainable Development implies processes of fundamental change in our social systems and institutions. The thrust of this change [entails] … addressing the … new global awareness that the earth is finite, and all of the planet's life support systems – including social and economic systems – are globally interconnected and interdependent.” This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Society And The Environment: A Swedish Research Perspective
Society And The Environment: A Swedish Research Perspective

Author: U. Svedin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9401127999

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Following the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development, research efforts devoted to sustainable development were promoted by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN). With its fifteen essays by Swedish scholars on different aspects of society -- environment interface, giving various analyses of and prospects for the concept of sustainable development -- this book is a result of those efforts. The authors represent a spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary approaches in the field of ecology, economy and environment. They are economists, ecologists, engineers, anthropologists, physicists, geographers, political scientists, science theorists and educationalists discussing sustainable development and the future of society and the environment. The question is also raised whether there is a special Swedisch `touch' -- with a `responsibility for the world' ethos -- to the approach to environmental issues, especially as seen through the efforts of the research community.

Canadian-Caribbean Relations in Transition
Canadian-Caribbean Relations in Transition

Author: Jerry Haar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-08-26

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1349147869

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An up-to-date analysis and assessment of the evolving relationship between Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean, this volume focuses on three dynamic and important issues. By presenting a current picture of the Canadian-Caribbean relationship, the book not only fills a void in academic contributions to the topic but serves as an invaluable reference guide for policy analysts, non-governmental representatives and public and private decision-makers.

Getting Ready for 1999
Getting Ready for 1999

Author: Tom Kent

Publisher: IRPP

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780886450878

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Topics discussed in this paper include the primacy of political parties; reforming the political process; true representation; a fuller economy; reviving the market; better taxation; preventing poverty; scope and space for people; and strengthening structures.