Documents similar to environmental risks and sustainable development
Environmental risks and sustainable development
Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. The environment is seriously threatened. The proliferation of environmental risks. New Environmental Global Risks. Worrying prospects. The redesigned environment. The ecological awareness (1960-70). The emergence and spread of the...»
Document abstract : « But these environmental hazards are still perceived an industrializing society, the risks are redefined in private sectors (insurance, risk pooling) and ...»
«Sweden and Finland are the only two countries that accept environmental refugees. The ecological footprint developed by a Canadian researcher, William Rees, is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. Based on development of countries, he studied all damages and hazards caused to the environment. This statistical component was taken by the UN and by NGOs (including WWF). It is calculated by adding the surfaces of each state needed to produce goods and services to meet the need, which is in turn is added to the amount of land required to absorb wastes....»
Should ecological security replace sustainable development as the...
Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. Sustainable development. Should ecological security replace sustainable development as the organizing principle of global environmental governance. Conclusion....»
Document abstract : «In Our Common Future, the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1990, 87, 105), both phrases of sustainable development and environmental security marked their entry into the international debates and were highlighted as...»
«Confronted with all these damning arguments, the advocates of treating environmental issues as common security problems have retorted that it has been a good way to alarm traditional security analysts and get people to react as effectively and urgently to ecological risks as they do it to common national security issues (Deudney 1990; Trombetta 2008). It does 8 not matter that the content of action does not exactly correspond to the same demands as normal security problems they argue, it has to be considered only as a „rhetorical device designed to stimulate action‟ (Deudney 1990, 465)....»
India and renewable energy
Synopsis abstract : «Context. Energy and development. India’s environmental challenges. Renewable energy in India. Sustainable development, renewable energy: concepts and definitions. Opportunities and benefits. Limitations....»
Document abstract : «With the Copenhagen Climate Conference taking place in December 2009, one of the main issues in the news currently is global warming and the way States should cooperate in order to face this problem. Since the beginning of the debate, the Indian gove...»
Critically compare and contrast the idea of sustainable development with...
Synopsis abstract : «According to our dominant neoclassical economics theory, environmental problems, closely related to the issue of poverty, can only be resolved within the concept of growth. To ecologists, all resources, be they renewable or not, are...»
The European support to sustainable development and adaptation to climate change
Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. The integration of the environmental paradigm in European policies. The gradual and uneasy breakthrough of the environmental concern. The European commitment to tackle climate change. The European policies designed to promote...»
The sustainable development: An ethical and profitable strategy for companies?
Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. What is the sustainable development?. The sustainable development in the business strategy.. Conclusion.. References.....»
Is sustainable development the only response to the planet's exhaustion of resources?
Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. Environment and Politics. The ecological issue as a political one. The political will to resolve the climate change. The major conventions shows the difficulty to compromise between a market of environment and a worldwide...»
Green marketing and sustainable development in France: What are their impacts on a...
Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Environment and responsible consumption.. Responsible consumption presentation.. Responsible consumption's background.. The context.. The green consumer.. All the parties involved in sustainable development.. Consumers' analyze.. The...»
The Sustainable Development Policy within the European Union
Synopsis abstract : «Defining sustainable development.. The concept of sustainable development.. Contestable nature of the concept.. Historical overview: the eu and sustainable development.. Key issues towards implementing the concept.. Understanding the global...»
Sustainable development, oil and the future: the trilogy
Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Public and private actors of the development model.. The State: Unique effective party in market externalities, thus responsible for sustainable development.. Limited liability of the State: The role of non-governmental organisms in...»