In Our Hands Earth Summit '92
Author: United Nations
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Published: 1992
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: World Intellectual Property Organization
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Published: 1992*
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Filomina Chioma Steady
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Earth Council
Publisher: IICA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9789290392309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Grubb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1000007138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1993. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, in June 1992, was a unique event in the annals of international affairs. The ‘Earth Summit’ brought more heads of state and government together than any previous meeting, and five separate agreements were signed by most of the participating governments. It was billed as the world’s greatest opportunity to resolve pressing problems of continuing poverty and environmental destruction and to set the world on a path of sustainable development. Thirty thousand people descended upon the city, and the Summit received a blaze of publicity around the world. Yet despite the vast efforts devoted to it, and the unprecedented press coverage which it received, to many the Earth Summit is still a mystery. The outcome has been labelled as everything from a disastrous fiasco to an outstanding success. Which was it; indeed, what was it? What came out of it? What was actually agreed, and what does it mean for the future of environment and development issues? This book presents a major summary and analysis of UNCED. It explains the background to the conference, its major achievements and disappointments, and the legacy which it has left. Individual chapters examine in detail each of the five main agreements signed at Rio, providing a short description of the negotiating background, analysis of the final text, and the likely implications. This title will be of great interest to students of environmental studies.
Author: Bobby Ewe Kong Sng
Publisher: Armour Publishing Pte Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789814222433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Celia Lury
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780813523293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLury weaves unique arguments over the expansive nature of consumption, including explanations as to how poorer segments of society do in fact contribute to consumer culture and how a commodity moves beyond its function and assumes a cultural and symbolic meaning. Not only does the author explore the way an individual's position in social groups structured by class, gender, race, and age affects the nature of his or her participation in consumer culture, but also how this culture itself is instrumental in the defining of social and political groups and the forming of an individual's self-identity.