Internet Sites:
United Nations Commission on
Sustainable Development
[http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/]
In 1992, more than 100 heads of state met in Rio de Janeiro for
the UN Conference on Environment & Development (UNCED). The
Earth Summit was convened to address urgent problems of environmental
protection and
socio-economic development. The assembled leaders signed the
Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological
Diversity; endorsed
the Rio Declaration and the Forest Principles; and adopted Agenda
21, a 300-page
plan for achieving sustainable development in the 21st century.
The Commission on
Sustainable Development (CSD) was created in December 1992 to
ensure effective follow-up of UNCED...
World Health Organization: Sustainable
Development
"Estimates of the burden of disease caused by the environment provide an
important input to the
rational development and evaluation of policies by the
health sector and activities of other
sectors which directly manage or influence the
determinants of health."
Conservation International
[www.conservation.org/]
Forum on
Science and Technology for Sustainability [sustsci.harvard.edu/]
The Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability seeks to facilitate
information exchange and discussion among the growing and diverse group of
individuals, institutions, and networks engaged in the field of science
and technology for sustainability. It seeks to provide access to emerging
ideas, relevant activities, key documents and web sites.
The Commons Sustainability Agenda:
An Open Platform for Problem Solving
A wide open, world-wide, totally independent non-government forum on the
InterNet serving people and groups concerned with improving our
understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their
daily lives.
World Business Council for Sustainable
Development ["dedicated to making a difference"]
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a
coalition of 150 international companies united by a shared
commitment to sustainable
development via the three pillars of economic growth,
ecological balance and social progress.
Sustainable Business/World Site [University of California at Davis]
The Sustainable World site
grew out an MBA course on responsible business and
technology taught by Richard Dorf of the Graduate School
of Mangement at U.C. Davis... as a way
to bring together graduate students from several
disciplines, including agriculture and engineering, and
weave sustainable business thinking into engineering and
business curricula.
School of Natural Resources, Univ.
of Wisconsin
The School of Natural Resources coordinates natural resource and
environmental teaching, research, and extension activities within
the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Since its establishment in
1966, the school has earned an international reputation for
leading and facilitating multidisciplinary activities designed to meet
natural resource management and conservation needs.
Natural Resources & Environmental and Ecological Economics
[University of Minnesota]
Google Directory of Agriculture and Natural Resources
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Economics/Agriculture_and_Natural_Resources/
Economics, Environment and
Sustainability [Steven Hackett, Humboldy Univ.]
Center of Excellence for
Sustainable Development [DOE] [www.sustainable.doe.gov]
"Sustainable development is a strategy by which communities seek economic
development approaches that also
benefit the local environment and quality of life...
Where traditional approaches can lead to congestion, sprawl, pollution
and resource overconsumption, sustainable
development offers real, lasting
solutions... Sustainable development provides a
framework under which communities can use
resources efficiently, create efficient
infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of
life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies..."
The Oil World
[The Forecasting and Information Service for Oil Seeds, Oils and Meals]
The Strategic Importance of Water; by
KENT HUGHES BUTTS.
From Parameters, Spring 1997, pp. 65-83.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -
The World Wide Web Virtual Library
[Center for Economic and Social Studies on
the Environment , located at Universiti Libre de Bruxelles]
A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with
sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities,
electronic journals, libraries, references and documents,
databases, directories or metadatabases;
keywords: sustainable development, environment, development,
resources, durable, sustainability,
ecological economics
Sustainable Communities and Cities:
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Sustainable Cities Research Institute
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Sustainable Communities Leadership Program (SCLP)
....builds communities in
California by developing the next generation of diverse leaders. Supported
by grants from The James Irvine Foundation, The David & Lucile Packard
Foundation, and by other participating organizations, SCLP has hosted
eighty undergraduate and graduate fellows over the past three years.
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CLINTON-GORE LIVABILITY AGENDA:
BUILDING LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
"In the 21st century, increasingly, a livable community
will be an economically powerful one."
--Vice President Gore, Sept. 2, 1998
Vice President Gore is today launching a comprehensive Livability Agenda
to help communities across America grow in ways that ensure a high quality
of life and strong, sustainable economic growth. This billion dollar
initiative will strengthen the federal government's role as a partner with
the growing number of state and local efforts to build "livable
communities" for the 21st century.
Clippings:
Temporary halt on Columbia water permits
Seattle Times, January 13, 2002
By The Associated Press
A Benton County Superior Court judge has temporarily ordered the state
Department of Ecology not to issue any water-rights permits for the
Columbia River based on federal flow targets for protecting fish.
Literature:
Anderson, Ray C. "Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model.
Mid-Course Correction." The Perezengrilla Press, 1998.
Arnold, Matthew, and Robert M. Day. The Next Bottom Line: Making
Sustainable Development Tangible. World Resources Institute, Washington
D.C. 1995.
Elkins, Paul. Economic Policy for Environmental Sustainability, in:
Crouch, C., and D. Marquand, eds., Reinventing Collecive Action: From the
Global to the Local. Blackwell 1995. [JC336.R43.1995]
Hanink, Dean M., "Resources," in:
Sheppard, Eric and Trevor J. Barnes, eds., A companion to economic
geography. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000
[Chapter 14, pp.227]
[Suzzallo/Allen Stacks HF1025 .C66 2000]
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins,
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial
Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1999.
[HC106.82 H39 1999]
A HREF="http://www.natcap.org/">WebSite;
Book Excerpts and Downloadable Chapters (Table of Contents)
"For decades, environmentalists have been warning that human economic
activity is exceeding the planet's limits. Of course we keep pushing those
limits back with clever new technologies; yet living systems are
undeniably in decline. These trends need not be in conflict
Natural Capitalism is the first book to explore
the lucrative opportunities for businesses in an era of approaching
environmental limits."
Hayter, Roger, Single Industry Resource Towns, in: E.Sheppard and
T.Barnes, eds., A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell 2000,
[Chapter 18, pp.290ff.]
[HF1025.C66 2000/ Suzz]
Herzog, Lawrence A., Shared Space: Rethinking the U.S.-Mexico Border
Environment. La Jolla: Center for US Mexican Studies, UC, San Diego, 2000.
367 pp, ISBN 1-878367-43-9 (paper)
[HC 110.E5. S474.2000]
CONTENTS
- The Shared Borderlands, Lawrence A. Herzog
- Global Capitalism and Sustainable Development: Exploring the
Contradictions, Leslie Sklair
- From Pollution Prevention to Industrial Ecology: An Agenda for Research
and Practice, Keith Pezzoli
- The NAFTA Environmental Institutions and Sustainable Development on the
U.S.?Mexico Border, Mark J. Spalding
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Decentralization on the Border:
Insights from Sonora, Stephen P. Mumme
- The Political Ecology of Environmental Learning in Ciudad Juarez and El
Paso County, Sarah Hill
- Transboundary Networks for Environmental Management in the San
Diego?Tijuana Border Region, Francisco Lara
- Tourism Development and the Politics of the Northern Baja California
Landscape, Lawrence A. Herzog
- Land Use and the Conservation of Natural Resources in the Tijuana River
Basin, Lina Ojeda Revah
- Place and Water Quality Politics in the Tijuana?San Diego Region, Suzanne
M. Michel
- Water Use and Sanitation Practices in Peri-Urban Areas of Tijuana: A
Demand-Side Perspective, O. Alberto Pombo
- Regulating the Border Environment: Toxics, Maquiladoras, and the Public
Right to Know, Donovan Corliss
- Structural Determinants of Sustainability in the Maquiladora Industry on
MexicoTransmigrants, the NAFTA, and a Proposal to Protect Air Quality on
the Border, Tito Alegrma
Howitt, Richard. Rethinking Resource Management: Justics, Sustainability
and Indigenous Peoples. London: Routledge, 2001.
[HC59.15 H69 2001/Suzz]
[Abstract by
Author]
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart. "The NEXT Industrial
Revolution," in The Atlantic Monthly pp. 82-92, October 1998.
Willums, Jan-Olaf, with the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development. "The Sustainable Business Challenge: A Briefing for
Tomorrow's Business Leaders," Greenleaf Publishing, 1998.
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