GEOG 3205 Chapter 13: Transportation-Mobility Readings
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Sustainable development in a post-brundtland world (sneddon et al: our common future, 1987. Report of the brundtland commission (world commission on. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs : points out three prongs of sustainable development: Equity: environmental dilemmas cannot easily be classified by scale or constituency, most would agree that a socially just and ecologically sustainable world is desirable. Urban ecological footprints & cities (rees & wackernagel: describes ecological economics & carrying capacity as a basis for the ecological footprint. No development path is sustainable if it depends on the continuous depletion of productive capital (p. 225: critiques & responses to methodology: More people enforcing it = easier to achieve. While this future orientation is not in and of itself problematic, what is problematic is the lack of analysis these proposed policies and plans have for existing vulnerable populations .
