Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development

What you definitely need to know for the final:

1. Difference Portney makes between environmental protection and new movement of sustainable development
2. Explain the three E’s of sustainability:
3. Agenda 21: chapter 2 of the book: it comes out of the Rio World Conference where in the 1990s emerged an international movement to support sustainable growth: all nations participated: from this movement emerged the sustainable growth movement: extensive rules and regulations on how the world can limit carbon dioxide emissions and pollution of the commons.
4. Tragedy of the Commons: page 49-53 in Portney:
5. Chapter 3: explanation on why and how the sustainable development movement emerged:
6. The argument that skepics have toward Agenda 21 and the sustainable development program: skeptics at the local and national level mostly in the United States:
7. Look in detail at the sustainable development business skeptics: (Chapter 4):
8. Challenges of international and cross-national sustainability efforts: (chapter 5)