Globalisation and Sustainable Development: Environmental Agendas

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Springer Science & Business Media, 05‏/07‏/2007 - 304 من الصفحات
A characteristic of the present global ecological situation is increasing instability or— put another way—a crisis in the civilization system, the global scale of which is expressed through a deterioration of human and animal habitats. The most sub stantial features of global ecodynamics of the late 20th and early 21st centuries include the rapid increase in world population (mainly in developing countries), increase in the size of the urban population (considerable growth in the number of megalopolises), and increase in the scales of such dangerous diseases as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, tuberculosis, etc. With growing population size the problems of providing people with food and improving their living conditions in many regions will not only not be resolved but will become even more urgent. Any possible benefit from decrease in per capita consumption as a result of increased efficiency of technologies will be outweighed by the impact of such a growth in population size. Despite the predom inant increase of population in developing countries, their contribution to the impact on the environment will not necessarily exceed that of developed countries. Key to ensuring sustainable development of the nature/society system (NSS) is the relation ship between production and consumption, as mentioned at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (2002). As civilization has developed, so the problem of predicting the scale of expected climate change and associated change in human habitats has become more urgent.

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الصفحة xxii - NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASDA NAtional Space Development Agency of Japan...
الصفحة 40 - Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international co-operation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. There are presently 122 Contracting Parties to the Convention, with 1034 wetland sites, totalling 78.2 million hectares, designated for inclusion in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.
الصفحة 40 - The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention) signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international co-operation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
الصفحة 67 - Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015...
الصفحة 21 - Industrial Port, and the improvement of urban transport. Mexico's Position in the Earth Summit Mexico actively participated in the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992.
الصفحة 22 - Observed annually on the anniversary of the opening of the UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972, which led to establishment of UN Environment Programme, based at Nairobi.
الصفحة 272 - Arnell. NW 2004. Climate change and global water resources: SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios.
الصفحة 2 - Many scholars have also defined globalisation from different perspectives: many see it as a primary economic phenomenon, involving the increasing interaction, or integration, of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment and capital flows...
الصفحة 38 - At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg in 2002...
الصفحة 23 - The World Conservation Strategy published in 1980 by the International Union for...

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