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The quest for sustainable development: Decoupling of what and how?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | During the last decades the body of evidence suggesting that human activity places unsustainable pressures on the natural environment has grown, and so has the consensus that humankind will need to take decisive measures to promote sustainable development pathways. At national level countries have seen the rise of the green movement, and at the international level they have been promoting global environmental dialogues and actions. In 1992, the world community gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations Conference on the Environment, and in 2012 it came together again in the same place for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Although the first Rio conference resulted in a comprehensive agenda for action to protect the natural environment -and has benefited from several follow-up conferences that also outlined action programmes – the environmental degradation and depletion has continued at an accelerating rate until the second Rio conference. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://co-munity.net/system/files/3122.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
