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- 1From:Law of the Sea Bulletin (Vol. 57)1. General Assembly resolution 59/24 of 17 November 2004: Oceans and the law of the sea The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/28 of 6 December 1994, 52/26 of 26 November 1997, 54/33 of 24 November...
- 2From:Geopolitics, History, and International Relations (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrom Rio to Rio with Kyoto, Copenhagen and Durban in between, the conclusion remains the same: There is fundamental disagreement on the realities of this planet and the ways we can tackle them. A decisive breakthrough...
- 3From:Nature (Vol. 573, Issue 7773) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Willem Fourie, Isak van der Walt, Hannes Strydom, Christopher Marais Author Affiliations: South African system tracks SDG research South Africa is developing a coding system to track research progress...
- 4From:African Evaluation Journal (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe South African (SA) government has over time developed separate policy indicator frameworks to measure governmental programme performances. They include a series of national development indicators to measure...
- 5From:Research-Technology Management (Vol. 48, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed"Sustainability is moving to the core of the business agenda," Bjorn Stigson, president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), told the Conference Board's annual sustainable development...
- 6From:Global Governance (Vol. 21, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDisruptive protest by nonstate actors often accompanies global governance conferences, but little analysis has been devoted to disaggregating its diverse forms. This article identifies four types of disruptive...
- 7From:Population and Development Review (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August--4 September 2002. The meeting was a follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that...
- 8From:Nature (Vol. 481, Issue 7379) Peer-ReviewedIn June, scientists, politicians and campaigners of all stripes will flock to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations' fourth Earth summit, devoted to sustainable development and the green economy. The...
- 9From:Nature (Vol. 486, Issue 7404) Peer-ReviewedBrazil's celebrated coastal metropolis is defined by stark contrasts, both geographic and economic. Extravagant wealth rings the city's luxurious beaches, while poverty looks on from the haphazard developments called...
- 10From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWHEN policy makers and scientists found themselves on the same platform at Rio+20 in June 2012, it was another chance to make practical progress towards the nebulous goal of sustainable development. To this end, the...
- 11From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground documents for the World Summit for Sustainable Development indicated that "addressing the water needs of the poor through concerted global action has not been given enough priority". The same assertion will...
- 12From:Social Policy (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRadha D'souza is currently a lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is a writer and social justice activist in New Zealand working with anti-globalization and peace movements. Most of her life...
- 13From:McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed1. INTRODUCTION The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 aspirational goals with 169 associated targets, adopted by United Nations (UN) member States in 2015 as part of the 2013 Agenda for Sustainable...
- 14From:Greener Management InternationalPeer-ReviewedMEETINGS OF THE UN COMMISSION ON Sustainable Development (UNCSD) are usually free of the tensions prevalent in other multilateral environmental international forums. Not so its eighth session, which was transformed from...
- 15From:McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLa perception du developpement durable comme etant un domaine specialise dans le monde du developpement persiste, et plusieurs le considerent comme Pequivalent de l'environnementalisme. Au niveau international, l'echec...
- 16From:Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedBased on a Driving Forces-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model, this paper takes a macroenvironmental, socioeconomic perspective to build an evaluation model to address sustainable Chinese wind power developments...
- 17From:Greener Management International (Issue 39) Peer-ReviewedTHEY CERTAINLY CAME: THOUSANDS OF government leaders, UN officials, business chiefs, activists--anyone who was anybody in environmental politics. But whether they really did conquer will be left to events, and...
- 18From:Research-Technology Management (Vol. 48, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOVERVIEW: Sustainable development has three broad goals: environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity, for both the organization and its stakeholders. In a succesful sustainability-focused...
- 19From:Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION Public International Law, along with the nation states that shape it, evolved during a period of relative environmental and geological stability on Earth. Nation states facilitated the emergence of...
- 20From:Ottawa Law Review (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLa premiere Loi federale sur le developpement durable (LFDD) a recu la sanction royale le 26 juin 2008. L'adoption de ce texte apparait comme un pas essentiel vers une prise en consideration pertinente du developpement...