The Way Forward (Routledge Library Editions: Sustainability) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367186446 ISBN 13: 9780367186449

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

First published in 1997. 1997 marked the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the celebrated ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro which represented the high-water mark of intergovernmental action for sustainable development. Whilst some were tempted to dismiss the Conference as a gesture of concern by the participating governments, the list of resolutions which arose from the Summit is formidable, and the key text to emerge from the conference process, Agenda 21, had proven to be crucial to efforts to disseminate and implement the principles of globally sustainable development.

The Way Forward outlines the successes and failures of those first five years. Calling on a list of eminent experts, it provides an unparalleled analysis of the agreements that were reached, and the stakeholders who were charged with implementing them. It reviews the progress that was made at the intergovernmental, national and grassroots levels, and offers a cogent summary of the major issues that needed to be addressed for the future. Lucid, compact and authoritative, this is the essential guide to ‘Rio plus five’.

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About the Author

Felix Dodds

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367186446
• ISBN 13: 9780367186449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Dodds Felix