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The Permanence Of The Sustainable Development Complex, Christopher Ginou Jan 2016

The Permanence Of The Sustainable Development Complex, Christopher Ginou

2016 Undergraduate Awards

Conventional wisdom tells us that sustainable development is the most effective solution to ecological protection, so what has this wisdom led to? Supporters of environmental sustainability have created a permanent sustainable development complex that is embedded within our business culture and the economy. This paper will reveal reasons why this permanence of sustainability has continued and why liberal environmentalism is used indefinitely. Some of these reasons being that sustainable development provides economic growth along with more efficient practices that can be utilized longer than before, and that sustainable development has been argued to produce substantial results that liberal environmentalist theorists …


Measuring Progress, Strengthening Governance, And Promoting Positive Change: Developing Sustainability Indicators With Winnipeg’S Urban First Nations Community, Christa Rust Jan 2010

Measuring Progress, Strengthening Governance, And Promoting Positive Change: Developing Sustainability Indicators With Winnipeg’S Urban First Nations Community, Christa Rust

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

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How On Earth Can We Live Together? In Search Of The Common Sense, N.A. Dec 2007

How On Earth Can We Live Together? In Search Of The Common Sense, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Beginning on June 26, 2008 the Tällberg Forum will gather leaders and thinkers from seventy nations for four days of conversations and workshops related to the opportunities and chal- lenges of global interdependence. Tällberg conversations have increasingly focused on the sys- tems problems emerging from the growing imbalance between nature and human activity. Can we design, govern and manage the sustainable interaction between natural systems and the systems of human activity? Can we negotiate among ourselves the resolution of the planetary crisis? Can we find better ways to integrate the work of governments and institutions with the actions of other …