The book provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development.
The book provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development.
Tapio Kanninen is Senior Research Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York and a Co-Director of the Project on Sustainable Global Governance at RBIIS. A long-time UN staff member Dr. Kanninen was Chief of the Policy Planning Unit in the Department of Political Affairs (1998-2005), Head of the Secretariat of Kofi Annan's five Summits with Regional Organizations and worked in a UNEP-funded project at the UN Statistical Office on establishing global framework for environmental statistics.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. The birth and evolution of the Club of Rome: early identification of a global crisis 2. A new way of thinking: the MIT study The Limits to Growth 3. How have the concepts and doctrines of sustainability changed? 4. Intergovernmental action 1972-2012: from Stockholm to Rio plus 20 5. Planetary boundaries: doomsday prophecies or scientific projections? 6. A crisis of institutions: how to manage our interconnected future? 7. Overcoming the crisis of mind and action: creating new institutions and strategies for a global emergency 8. The future: thinking big about global institutions and world governance 9. Epilogue: what should be done?
Introduction 1. The birth and evolution of the Club of Rome: early identification of a global crisis 2. A new way of thinking: the MIT study The Limits to Growth 3. How have the concepts and doctrines of sustainability changed? 4. Intergovernmental action 1972-2012: from Stockholm to Rio plus 20 5. Planetary boundaries: doomsday prophecies or scientific projections? 6. A crisis of institutions: how to manage our interconnected future? 7. Overcoming the crisis of mind and action: creating new institutions and strategies for a global emergency 8. The future: thinking big about global institutions and world governance 9. Epilogue: what should be done?
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