Management and Organizational Studies 2285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chronic Pain, Social Contract, Kyoto Protocol

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2285
• Professor: Trevor Hunter

Document Summary

One of the biggest ethical dilemmas companies face today. Different countries place different value on clean environments not always by choice however. Rich countries tend to value environmental protection more than poor ones they can afford to. In the latter half of the 20th century, the perspective of environmental concerns has changed from local to global. Ironically, environmental degradation was mainly caused by local problems, but affect the world, and may be stopped through globalization. However, due to their scope, local problems have become global problems. A notion of limits to the carrying capacity of the global ecosystem. Challenges the status quo of expansion equalling progress bigger is not always better. Global village, spaceship earth, shrinking world we are dependent on each other: sustainable development. Interdependence (cid:862)de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:373)eets the (cid:374)eeds of the prese(cid:374)t (cid:449)ithout (cid:272)o(cid:373)pro(cid:373)isi(cid:374)g the a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) of future ge(cid:374)eratio(cid:374)s to (cid:373)eet their o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:374)eeds(cid:863) world commission on environment and development (wced), 1987.