ES 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Urban Sprawl, Waste Management, Global Environmental Politics
4 Nov 2015
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Issues, trends, challenges: sovereignty: the ability to make decisions within your own national boundaries without external interference, nowhere is 100% sovereign. Because of trade and other international negotiations. Major conflicts in policy: economic development and environmental protection will always be in at least a small conflict with each other, national borders and sovereignty and (versus) the natural environment, nature is shared by states. Sustainable development: political definition, development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising ability of the futures generations to meet their needs, published by the brundtland report in the mid-1980s. It"s multifaceted: economic, political, social, and environmental components. Key regional priority issues: africa, land degradation and its cross-cutting impacts on forests. Soil erosion: freshwater, marine and coastal resources, pressures such as drought, climate variability and change, and urbanization, asia and the pacific, transport and urban air quality.
