Sustainable Development and the Summit: A Canadian Perspective on Progress
| Autor: | G. V. Buxton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Sustainable development
Economic growth geography Summit geography.geographical_feature_category media_common.quotation_subject Climate change Ocean environment Commission World community Work (electrical) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Political science Political Science and International Relations media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal. 47:776 |
| ISSN: | 0020-7020 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/40202803 |
| Popis: | In recent years Canada has become widely recognized in the world community as a proponent of sustainable development, both at home and abroad. Domestically, this approach is reflected in the Green Plan, one of only a handful of active national programmes for sustainable development. Internationally, Canada has played a prominent role over the past twenty years in co-operative responses to specific environmental problems including climate change, depletion of the ozone layer, and, through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and earlier agreements, protection of the ocean environment. Canada has also become strongly identified with efforts to put sustainable development on the international agenda. It contributed to the work of the World Commission on Environment and |
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