Business Administration 1220E Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Brundtland Commission, Wced, Ecosystem Health

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 1220E
• Professor: Alexander Miller

Document Summary

Sdgs should be integrated in mdgs twin priorities: poverty reduction and protecting the earth. Population growth, antropocene (human pressure risks causing irreversible changes to basis earth system processes), right to development all people transition to sustainable lifestyles. Six core goals: thriving lives and livelihoods. End poverty and improve well being access: food security. Limit nitrogen and phosphorus use: water security. Universal access to clean water and basic sanitation: clean energy, healthy ecosystems. Sd model challenges the conventional form of development modernization theory. Conventional model: different stages of economic growth (rostow, 1960: take off: new industries and entrepreneurial classes, maturity: economic growth exceeds population growth, final stage: high mass consumption allows emergence of social welfare. The model assumes linear progression, 3rd world countries to "catch up" with. Visions on sustainable development united in belief that there are ultimate biophysical limits to growth. 3 pillars of sd: social: values of human relations and institutions. Term sustainable development prominent since mid 1980s.