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Sustainable Development, Politics and Agency
Recently a private briefing on SD, Politics and Agency caught my attention. After a good but brief introduction to social agency through an explanation of sociology’s externalities and psychology’s...
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Is Resilience the new Holy Grail of Humanity?
Holling’s adaptive cycle. With thanks to ebizq. According to Adger (2000), ‘resilience, in both its social and ecological manifestations, is an important aspect of the sustainability of development and...
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Exponential procreation or eternal damnation?
The Rio +20 outcomes from the perspective of a UK-based NGO focusing on population. Population: What Elephant? Somewhere around 31-October-2011 the human population reached 7 billion individuals,...
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Sustainable Development: Actors and Politics, Stakeholder Agendas and Power...
Internationally, Sustainable Development attracts and subsumes a vast network with multiple stakeholders involved in the politics of SD. It is worth exploring their potential agendas in relation to SD...
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Twitter Roundup
The hideous Belgian Blue SUPERCOW. Can people be persuaded to alter their diets for health and sustainability? http://t.co/2Io9l6tmbC Sweden’s energy supply now over 50 percent renewable!...
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Twitter Roundup, 21 August 2013
Interesting views opposing the anti-fracking groups re: previous tweet from @TheCommentator. Check the views in the comments. Not convinced. Hilariously, Green MP Caroline Lucas (arrested earlier) says...
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Wanting makes us happier than having!
OnlyOnePlanet: What happens when we stop wanting? Contentment becomes possible, from a Buddhist perspective. It’s the wanting that causes suffering. The having also causes suffering when it’s an...
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Espoo and the EIA: Effective Environmental Governance or Struggling,...
(C) UNECE, with thanks 1 MEAs & Effectiveness With the negative effects of human activity increasing at national and international scales across the gamut of existence, the need for binding...
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Spend, Don’t Mend.
Monbiot. Awesome. Read it… Spend, Don’t Mend.. Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th November 2013. Guilt is good. It’s the...
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Population: A Problem for Sustainability?
It is estimated that on 31 October 2011 the human population reached 7 billion individuals. It was only 1999 when there were 6 billion people, and it is estimated to reach 8 billion around the year...
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