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Twenty years after the landmark Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, the United Nations has convened a Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The 1989 UN resolution calling for the conference singles out -- among other global problems -- issues of biodiversity, water and other natural resources, atmospheric integrity, and human health as ones whose management requires strengthened international cooperation and attention. Whatever explicit and effective commitments -- to control greenhouse gases that threaten global warming, for example -- are negotiated at UNCED, profound problems relating to the linked pursuit of environmental, natural resource, and economic objectives are certain to survive the two-week meeting of government leaders, technical experts, and representatives of environmental constituencies. To be sure, participants may well assert that the goals of environmental protection, natural resource adequacy, and economic growth are compatible. But a probing of the question of sustainability of development inspires less confidence that potential problems and conflicts in the pursuit of these goals are fully appreciated in the international community, much less that the consensus needed to easily achieve the goals will be forthcoming. In Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability, researchers at Resources for the Future examine some of the enduring issues, whether or not officially under consideration at the conference or raised there informally, that cannot be ignored in any attempt to pursue aspirations concerning the environment and development. The lasting value of UNCED may depend on the extent to which it diverse participants couple political rhetoric with willingness to confront these difficult issues once this 'earth summit' fades into history.
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9781138961111 | Routledge, September 1, 2015, cover price $110.00
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9780915707638 | Resources for the Future, March 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Twenty years after the landmark Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, the United Nations has convened a Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992.
Product Description: Originally published in 1989, Greenhouse Warming combines papers presented at a workshop held in 1987 to discuss climate change. This study identifies ways that climate impacts upon agriculture, forestry and water resources in order to advise on safeguarding against drought, flood and extreme cold as well as what policies can be implemented to adapt to the probable physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change...read more
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9781138963122 | Routledge, September 10, 2015, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1989, Greenhouse Warming combines papers presented at a workshop held in 1987 to discuss climate change.
Product Description: In 1992, Resources for the Future conducted a workshop concerning the issues of global climate change. This title, originally published in 1993, is a collection of the revised versions of the papers commissioned for the workshop with an added introduction and overview...read more
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9781138953710 | Routledge, July 29, 2015, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: In 1992, Resources for the Future conducted a workshop concerning the issues of global climate change.
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9780915707713 | Resources for the Future, August 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Researchers examine the existing state of knowledge regarding surprises (effects that are not natural extensions of existing trends) and nonlinearities (responses disproportionate to changes in stimuli that may threaten adaptive capacities) in natural and socioeconomic systems confronted with human-induced climatic change.
Product Description: Originally published in 1983, Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns claimed that two-thirds of energy consumption in the United States came from households. This study aimed to estimate the expected changes in household activities and how this would affect energy consumption in the country as a whole...read more
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9781138953086 | Routledge, July 23, 2015, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1983, Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns claimed that two-thirds of energy consumption in the United States came from households.
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9780801832048 | Resources for the Future, December 1, 1983, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Lareau, Professor Thomas J.
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