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Environmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles

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Browsing Environmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles by Subject "Agenda 21"

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    Earth Summit
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Gale, publisher
    The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), or the Earth Summit, convened in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 in the hopes of launching a number of more environmentally responsible international agreements. The Conference brought together the largest number of world leaders ever assembled: The conference produced Agenda 21, perhaps the most complex and comprehensive international document ever attempted. Initially, there was hope for four international conventions: (1) Forests, (2) Biotechnology, (3) Biodiversity, and (4) Climate, though only the latter two survived the negotiating process The Summit solidified two new principles of international order: an equitable international economic order, and sustainable development.
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    People, population, prosperity, and place
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1994) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; United Nations Environment Programme, publisher
    Ethical evaluation of the UN strategy document from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Earth Summit). Population growth, human health, and people living sustainably on their landscapes are the concerns of Chapters 5, 6, and 7, which follow the analyses of poverty and escalating consumption in Chapters 3 and 4. This leads to formulating policy in Chapter 8, concluding the social and economic section of Agenda 21. The world is a complicated place, reflected in this agenda, one of the longest international documents ever negotiated; but at risk of oversimplification we can sketch the ethical issues by a look a chronological graph of world population and a pie chart of world consumption.