Tunza

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN : 9789280723526

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Tunza by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

Tunza was developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) who acknowledged the need for a book to stimulate environmental action among young people. Through participatory discussions and suggestions,particularly from participants at the Global Youth Forum held in Denmark in March 2002, young people from around the world helped to produce a book that would provide them and their contemporaries with a reference and forum on key environmental issues. The aim being to motivate and guide young people on actions they can take in their local communities to help sustainable development.

Author : Kata Dozsa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000928723

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Children as Climate Citizens by Kata Dozsa Pdf

This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased. Climate change affects young people in many ways: causing severe threats to child survival, health and wellbeing, food security and nutrition, and access to education. But this book maintains that children and youth are not to be identified solely with their vulnerability to climate change. They are also key stakeholders in the sustainable implementation of long-term climate change policies, and their inclusion in decision-making processes is a measure of intergenerational equity. Children’s rights law is vague about the right to public participation or the environmental rights of children as such. In response, this book examines the often-informal network of pathways through which the public participation of children takes place: from high level conferences and governance structures to grassroots youth movements and climate change litigation. Exploring the difficulties, but also the opportunities and aspirations of children as citizens challenging the current climate change regime, the book proposes legal and policy tools for children’s participation in global climate change governance, as it outlines a concept of children’s climate citizenship. This book will appeal to scholars in the areas of sociolegal studies, environmental and climate change law, children’s rights and social movements, as well as policy makers and young people with interests in climate activism.

Author : United Nations,United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789280725452

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UNEP Annual Report by United Nations,United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

This report details the goals and activities of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global sustainable development and environmental issues during 2004, as well as providing information on the organisation's funding, structure, personnel and offices around the world. Topics covered include: the response to the Asian tsunami emergency; women, health and the environment; sustainable business and industry; international environmental governance; combating climate change; freshwater and sanitation; sustainable land use; and conserving biodiversity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IDEA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 193271636X

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Student Voices Against Poverty by Anonim Pdf

Educates teachers about global poverty and provides them with some 20 lesson plans to help them share this knowledge with their students. The work focuses on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to which all UN members have committed in order to address the root causes of poverty and inequality. Each lesson plan contains an overview, learning objectives, step-by-step activities, suggestions for evaluation and assessment, extension activities, and related resources, and is aligned to national standards. Activity and resource sheets are available for downloading from the Web site.

Author : Tracy L. Brown
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530274

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Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico by Tracy L. Brown Pdf

"Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico investigates the tactics that Pueblo Indians used to negotiate Spanish colonization and the ways in which the negotiation of colonial power impacted Pueblo individuals and communities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jennifer Daskal,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : 9781564323804

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"Why Am I Still Here?" by Jennifer Daskal,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

"This report focuses on some of the most violent episodes of political repression in Kinshasa and the Western province of Bas Congo during the two years following the 2006 elections" -- p.2

Author : Joel Spring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136805356

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A New Paradigm for Global School Systems by Joel Spring Pdf

This volume is a major new contribution to Joel Spring reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education—offers a new paradigm for global school systems. Education for global economic competition is the prevailing goal of most national school systems. Spring argues that recent international studies by economists, social psychologists, and others on the social factors that support subjective well-being and longevity should serve as a call to arms to change education policy; the current industrial-consumer paradigm is not supportive of either happiness or long life.Building his argument through an original documentation, synthesis, and critique of prevailing global economic goals for schools and research on social conditions that support happiness and long life, Spring: *develops guidelines for a global core curriculum, methods of instruction, and school organizations; *translates these guidelines into a new paradigm for global school systems based on progressive, human rights, and environmental educational traditions; *contrasts differing ways of seeing and knowing among indigenous, Western, and Confucian-based societies, concluding that global teaching and learning involve a particular form of holistic knowing and seeing; and*proposes a prototype for a global school—an eco-school that functions to protect the biosphere and human rights and to support the happiness and well-being of the school staff, students, and immediate community—and for a global core curriculum based on holistic models for lessons and instruction. The book concludes with Spring’s retelling of Plato’s parable of the cave—in which educators break the chains that bind them to the industrial-consumer paradigm and rethink their commitment to humanity’s welfare.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280728016

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UNEP 2006 Annual Report by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

This is a summary of UNEP's activities in 2006. The main purpose of UNEP is to encourage international co-operation in preserving and protecting the environment. This objective is developed alongside other United Nations departments and international governments by addressing issues such as climate change and sustainable development challenges. Environmental issues also tie into poverty reduction and the general development strategies as set out in the Millennium Development Goals. The theme of this particular annual report is change; climate change; energy change, ecosystem change, and how such change, with impact on future generations.

Author : Claire Fenton-Glynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107193024

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Children's Rights and Sustainable Development by Claire Fenton-Glynn Pdf

Considers how to implement children's rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Author : Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191510410

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The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development by Jorge E. Viñuales Pdf

The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result. The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was an emphatic attempt to address this issue, setting down 27 key principles for the international community to follow. These principles define the rights of people to sustainable development, and the responsibilities of states to safeguard the common environment. The Rio Declaration established that long term economic progress required a connection to environmental protection. It was designed as an authoritative and comprehensive statement of the principles of sustainable development law, an instrument to take stock of the past international and domestic practice, a guide for the design of new multilateral environmental regimes, and as a reference for litigation. This commentary provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the principles of the Declaration, written by over thirty inter-disciplinary contributors, including both leading practitioners and academics. Each principle is analysed in light of its origins and rationale. The book investigates each principle's travaux préparatoires setting out the main points of controversy and the position of different countries or groups. It analyses the scope and dimensions of each principle, providing an in-depth understanding of its legal effects, including whether it can be relied before a domestic or international court. It also assesses the impact of the principles on subsequent soft law and treaty development, as well as domestic and international jurisprudence. The authors demonstrate the ways in which the principles interact with each other, and finally provide a detailed analysis of the shortcomings and future potential of each principle. This book will be of vital importance to practitioners, scholars, and students of international environomental law and sustainable development.

Author : Nicholas Awortwi,Herman Musahara
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789994455904

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Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals by Nicholas Awortwi,Herman Musahara Pdf

In September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization (UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2)). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To actualise this declaration, the UN established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the past 14 years thereafter, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target. This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the MDGs in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases. The book also presents lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda.

Author : Martinez-Roca, Carme,Thoresen, Victoria,UNEP
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001819

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YouthXchange training kit on responsible consumption for Africa by Martinez-Roca, Carme,Thoresen, Victoria,UNEP Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9280724436

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Natural Allies by Anonim Pdf

The earth's ecosystems are facing unprecedented challenges including climate change, atmospheric pollution, land degradation, water scarcity and loss of biological diversity on land and sea. This publication looks at the role and structure of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); how civil society organisations, such as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other pressure groups, can participate in UNEP activities; and opportunities for interacting directly with governments whose decisions guide the UNEP's programme of work.

Author : Janet Wilson
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781926920566

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Our Earth by Janet Wilson Pdf

Ten profiles of amazing young environmental activists. Each child is captured in a portrait, their achievements described, and filled out with photos. Ends with tips for kids to make a difference.

Author : Thomas Dallam,John Covel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00099427

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Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant by Thomas Dallam,John Covel Pdf