Only One Earth – The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
Only One Earth – The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 23, Issue 6.
Edited By Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss and Maurice F. Strong
Routledge, London
May 2012
312 pp.
ISBN 9780415540254
£24.99
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past 40 years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet.
It looks to the challenges that we face 20 years from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “The Earth Summit,” in Rio, in particular in the areas of economics and governance and the role of stakeholders. It puts forward a set of recommendations that the international community must address now and in the future. It reminds us of the planetary boundaries we must all live within and what needs to be addressed in the next 20 years for democracy, equity and fairness to survive. Finally it proposes through the survival agenda a bare minimum of what needs to be done, arguing for a series of absolute minimum policy changes we need to move forward.
