POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Malaria, Agenda 21, Multilateralism
29 Mar 2017
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Achieving dev through goals and targets recent history. First time sustainable dev as concept was embraced and given life by un. Big impact on how sustainability is defined by un. Where mdgs were agreed upon by general assembly. Intended to be 20 years after rio conference where nation states, ngos (all. Re power of norms many view conferece as a failure, did not do much. But we will see it had big impact on the dev of the now sdg. Authors give clear explanation re how rio+20 drove the development. Most famous was first mdg, which sought to cut in half ppl living in extreme poverty. But we will see how some of the other goals were v difficult to achieve and even more difficult is the idea that some of these goals we don"t know if we can even achieve (bad data, etc) They don"t work: they"re bureaucratic and therefore .
