Sustainable Development
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Sustainable Development

Constraints and Opportunities

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sustainable Development

Constraints and Opportunities

About this book

Sustainable Development: Constraints and Opportunities contains a selection of the author's speeches made between 1982 and 1986. During this 5-year period knowledge of environment-development relationships has grown considerably, and this evolving perception can be discerned in his statements spanning those years. Taken together, the common thread binding all the speeches is the fact that long-term development can only be achieved through sound environmental management, that is, sustainable development, which is the title of this book. The speeches included in this volume were delivered in the author's capacity as the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). They thus cover primarily broad areas of interest of UNEP's programs and policies. Key topics discussed include environmental protection; disarmament and the environment; environmental information for engineers; the impact of human settlements on the environment; environmental management in the Gulf; the causes, effects, and prevention of desertification; and the environmental impact assessment process.

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Information

Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780408008778
eBook ISBN
9781483163512
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Sustainable Development: Constraints and Opportunities
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1. Environmental protection
  8. Chapter 2. Environment and development
  9. Chapter 3. Safeguarding the environment
  10. Chapter 4. Disarmament and environment
  11. Chapter 5. Environmental information for engineers
  12. Chapter 6. Highways to nowhere
  13. Chapter 7. Rolling back the wasteland
  14. Chapter 8. Combining the best of the old with the best of the new
  15. Chapter 9. A duty to hope – new directions for science and technology
  16. Chapter 10. The peril of the two cities
  17. Chapter 11. Putting the principles to work
  18. Chapter 12. Towards a more prosperous global tomorrow
  19. Chapter 13. Profiting from the environment
  20. Chapter 14. Environmental management in the Gulf
  21. Chapter 15. Sustainable development in a developing economy
  22. 16 Desertification is stoppable
  23. Chapter 17. Environmental impact assessment – principles and guidelines
  24. Chapter 18. World population increase – our dangerous opportunity
  25. Chapter 19. Caring for lakes in a changing world
  26. 20 The global dimension to conservation issues
  27. Chapter 21. Energy use and environment in the Asia/Pacific region
  28. Chapter 22. The premises for building a sustainable society
  29. Chapter 23. Partnership for conservation
  30. Chapter 24. Environmental management
  31. Chapter 25. Solving our environmental problems
  32. Chapter 26. Protecting the ozone layer
  33. Chapter 27. Global concern about environment
  34. Chapter 28. Management of hazardous waste
  35. Chapter 29. Women and the Earth's traditions
  36. Chapter 30. An urgent role to save the Mediterranean
  37. Chapter 31. Resource management - the human connection
  38. Chapter 32. Climatic effects of carbon dioxide and other trace gases
  39. Chapter 33. Desertification control - moving beyond the laboratory
  40. Chapter 34. Towards an African Solution
  41. Chapter 35. Socioeconomic benefits of environmental protection
  42. Abbreviations
  43. Index