DVM 2106 Lecture 6: DVM2106 - Module 6 Environment and Sustainability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2106
• Professor: Rebecca Tiessen

Document Summary

Practical issues in disaster risk reduction and responding to community needs. 1972 stockholm conference and the declaration on human environment. Both criticized for being highly anthropocentric human beings at the centre of concerns for sd" (1972) Rio +20 un conference on sd (2012) 20 years after rio converence at un conference, people arguing for merging of some mdgs. Today we see more focus on environment. Climate change contributes to disasters (why and how: how it contributes to disasters. Development (short and long-term) impacts: how it effects development. Prevention/disaster risk reduction (drr: how to prevent and reduce. All strategies need to assess the different implications, consider the causes and impacts of climate change in the planning, implementation and evaluation of development programs (in planned policy action, legislation and programmes). People arguing that climate change needs to be more prominent and development thinking: done through planned policies, meetings, etc. Limits to growth: what is nature population growth.