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1-10 of 21 for the Category : Sustainable Development and the Subcategory : Sustainable Development - GeneralAgenda 21
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'Agenda 21', so named because of its position in the meeting agenda, is a global plan of action for sustainable development agreed to by most United Nations member nations at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (also call
Read more about Agenda 21Cleaner Production
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Cleaner Production (CP) is defined by the UN as ‘the continuous application of an integrated preventive strategy applied to processes, products and services so as to increase eco-efficiency and reduce risks to humans and the environment’.
Read more about Cleaner ProductionConsumerism
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Consumption is the purchase and use of goods and services, and consumerism is the 'shop-till-you-drop' syndrome - that ever-increasing spiral of over-consumption that characterises modern society.
Read more about ConsumerismEco-efficiency
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Eco-efficiency describes the ecological efficiency of goods and services by measuring their economic price (that includes their consumer demand and their monetary cost) and checking that against its production or manufacturing successes in reduci
Read more about Eco-efficiencyEcology
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Ecology is the scientific study of the interaction of organisms with one another and with their living and non-living environment (e.g. climate, temperature, light, water, nutrients).
Read more about EcologyEconomics
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It is not uncommon to hear our present global economic system being compared to a predatory natural environment. We might imagine the market as a great African plain where competition for scarce resources dominates the life of every species. We c
Read more about EconomicsEconomics of the Environment
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The biggest threat to the realisation of the sustainable development ideal is not in determining and understanding how Economics and Ecology as individual systems function, but how they operate as a single embedded system.
Read more about Economics of the EnvironmentEnvironmental Ethics
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Environmental ethics is a sub-division of professional and applied ethics that concerns itself with the responsibilities that we as humans have in our interactions with the environment.
Read more about Environmental EthicsGovernance
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Environmental governance is rapidly becoming a fundamental component in the management of corporations globally.
Read more about GovernanceGreenwash
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Greenwash is not a new concept. The term emerged from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and it entered the Concise Oxford Dictionary in 1999.
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