Towards A Common Future

Author : Arindam Banik,Munim Kumar Barai,Yasushi Suzuki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811055928

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Towards A Common Future by Arindam Banik,Munim Kumar Barai,Yasushi Suzuki Pdf

This book focuses on the tremendous shift in both economic growth and development progress taking place towards the Asia-Pacific Region. Each of the countries in the region has various concerns and challenges for its sustainable development, a common goal most of them are trying to achieve at the moment. Interestingly, sustainable development in the region may be critical for achieving sustainable development at the global level as well. With a limited mandate, the book covers some specific developmental issues of ‘the hot spots’ of APR that are regarded to be contributing to their sustainable development. The book also looks at the formation and strengthening of some economic and financial initiatives with the potentials to affect growth and influence economic cooperation and integration of the countries in the region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0195531914

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Our Common Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ksenia Gerasimova
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351352642

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Our Common Future by Ksenia Gerasimova Pdf

Our Common Future is a joint work produced in 1987 by a United Nations commission headed by former Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Brundtland. Also known as The Brundtland Report, it offers a classic approach to problem solving by first asking a productive question. How do we protect the world we live in for future generations, while at the same time stimulating economic and social development right now? The solution the work proposes is “sustainable development”, defined in the report as humanity’s ability “to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The key conclusion the report came to – that we need long-term strategies to manage the earth’s natural resources – proved to be so universally welcomed it introduced the term “sustainability” into the everyday language of international politics. Solving the problem of workable sustainable development became a hot topic, leading to the birth of a new academic discipline, environmental economics. The book offered a solution to the problem of ensuring sustainable development by highlighting the critical importance of international cooperation.

Author : Erling Holden,Kristin Linnerud,David Banister,Valeria Jana Schwanitz,August Wierling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134338481

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The Imperatives of Sustainable Development by Erling Holden,Kristin Linnerud,David Banister,Valeria Jana Schwanitz,August Wierling Pdf

Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This model suggests sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, thereby defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved. The authors accept that there is no single pathway to the sustainable development space. Different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This perspective is applied to all countries to determine whether the thresholds of the sustainability themes selected have been met, now and in the past. The authors build on the extensive literature on needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, and show how the three moral imperatives can guide policymaking. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development synthesizes past reasoning, summarizes the present debate, and provides a clear direction for future thinking. This book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social issues involved.

Author : Tanja Rohini Bisgaard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN : 198130035X

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2047 Short Stories from Our Common Future by Tanja Rohini Bisgaard Pdf

In 1987, the United Nations created a vision for our common future: one Earth, where we could all live together without damaging the planet for future generations. In this short-fiction anthology from 2017, ten authors look another thirty years into the future, giving their perspectives regarding how we might-or might not-adapt to the changes around us in the year 2047. As citizens on this blue planet of ours, we are currently experiencing great changes when it comes to global warming, pollution, and toxic substances that end up in our food and our drinking water. In addition, flora and fauna are disappearing from the places where we played when we were children, and natural resources are being depleted around the world. Life as we know it is changing. Some say these changes are happening faster than ever, which means we need to adapt faster too. So are we? Read more on the book's webpage http: //2047ourcommonfuture.com

Author : Buckler, Carolee,Creech, Heather
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 9789231000539

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Shaping the future we want by Buckler, Carolee,Creech, Heather Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Philadelphia ; Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015032832019

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Whose Common Future? by Anonim Pdf

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231000881

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Rethinking education: towards a global common good? by UNESCO Pdf

Economic growth and the creation of wealth have cut global poverty rates, yet vulnerability, inequality, exclusion and violence have escalated within and across societies throughout the world. Unsustainable patterns of economic production and consumption promote global warming, environmental degradation and an upsurge in natural disasters. Moreover, while we have strengthened international human rights frameworks over the past several decades, implementing and protecting these norms remains a challenge.These changes signal the emergence of a new global context for learning that has vital implications for education. Rethinking the purpose of education and the organization of learning has never been more urgent. This book is inspired by a humanistic vision of education and development, based on respect for life and human dignity, equal rights, social justice, cultural diversity, international solidarity and shared responsibility for a sustainable future. It proposes that we consider education and knowledge as global common goods, in order to reconcile the purpose and organization of education as a collective societal endeavour in a complex world.

Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781843317975

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Altered Destinations by Makarand R. Paranjape Pdf

‘Altered Destinations’ addresses the complex interrelations of state, nation and identity in India through the medium of culture, and compellingly reframes the debate in the context of the Gandhian concept of swaraj. Engaging with Gandhi’s classic text ‘Hind Swaraj’, which envisioned an entirely new form of identity and governance in India in opposition with its colonial past, Paranjape extends the discussion by exlporing how ideas of autonomy, selfhood, and cultural independence have been expressed, depicted and studied.

Author : Marcus Düwell,Gerhard Bos,Naomi van Steenbergen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351631648

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Towards the Ethics of a Green Future (Open Access) by Marcus Düwell,Gerhard Bos,Naomi van Steenbergen Pdf

What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact of today’s environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human rights issue and examines what our long-term responsibilities might be. This interdisciplinary collection of chapters provides a basis for understanding the debates on the provision of sustainability for future generations from a diverse set of theoretical standpoints. Covering a broad range of perspectives such as risk and uncertainty, legal implementation, representation, motivation and economics, Towards the Ethics of a Green Future sets out the key questions involved in this complex ethical issue. The contributors bring theoretical discussions to life through the use of case studies and real-world examples. The book also includes clear and tangible recommendations for policymakers on how to put the suggestions proposed within the book into practice. This book will be of great interest to all researchers and students concerned with issues of sustainability and human rights, as well as scholars of environmental politics, law and ethics more generally.

Author : Linda Starke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0192852256

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Signs of Hope by Linda Starke Pdf

This Book Records Progress In The Implementation Of The Recommendations Of `Our Common Future` And Looks At Governments, Industry, Scientists, Non-Governmental Organizations The Media And Young People. It Also Points To Areas Where Progress Has Not Been Made And Examines The `Unfinished Agenda` The Priorities For Further Change Over The Next Decade.

Author : Oluf Langhelle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230378797

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Towards Sustainable Development by Oluf Langhelle Pdf

The book brings together twelve original essays on the meaning and implications of sustainable development. The collection assesses the theoretical debate over the concept of sustainable development, and looks at the unique experiment in applying this practically which has taken place in Norway to discover how the concept can illuminate practical policy across a wide range of fields. Topics covered include sustainable development as a global ethics; the concept of need; global and generational equity; the limits of nature; implications for economics; and the role of technology. The editors outline the logic of the approach and draw together the implications of the individual studies for a more focused and consistent application of the concept.

Author : International Commission on the Futures of Education
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004780

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Reimagining our futures together by International Commission on the Futures of Education Pdf

The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures.

Author : James Meadowcroft,David Banister,Erling Holden,Oluf Langhelle,Kristin Linnerud,Geoffrey Gilpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Sustainability
ISBN : 1788975197

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What Next for Sustainable Development? by James Meadowcroft,David Banister,Erling Holden,Oluf Langhelle,Kristin Linnerud,Geoffrey Gilpin Pdf

"This book examines the international experience with sustainable development since the concept was brought to world-wide attention in Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds engage with three critical themes: negotiating environmental limits; equity, environment and development; and transitions and transformations. In light of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, they ask what lies ahead for sustainable development"--Publisher's website.

Author : Haydn Washington,Paul Twomey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317358343

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A Future Beyond Growth by Haydn Washington,Paul Twomey Pdf

There is a fundamental denial at the centre of why we have an environmental crisis – a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite planet is impossible. Nature provides the ecosystem services that support our civilisation, thus making humanity unavoidably dependent upon it. However, society continues to ignore and deny this dependence. A Future Beyond Growth explores the reason why the endless growth economy is fundamentally unsustainable and considers ways in which society can move beyond this to a steady state economy. The book brings together some of the deepest thinkers from around the world to consider how to advance beyond growth. The main themes consider the deep problems of the current system and key aspects of a steady state economy, such as population; throughput and consumerism; ethics and equity; and policy for change. The policy section and conclusion bring together these various themes and indicates how we can move past the growth economy to a truly sustainable future. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of economics, sustainability and environmental studies in general.