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Rio Plus Ten: Politics, Poverty and the Environment

By Neil Middleton , Phil O'Keefe

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0745319548, 9780745319544, 0745319556, 9780745319551, 9780585489018
Open Library ID
OL22539844M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
726 kB (743558 bytes)
Pages
216\210
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The World Summit on Sustainable Development took place in Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2002. In this book, the authors look at the agenda established since the original Rio conference in 1992 and cover the events of the intervening years: global warming and the unfolding arguments over climate change, energy, water and sanitation, patents and many other issues. They examine what progress-- if any--has been made. Offering a critical analysis of the links between neo-liberal economics and transnational organisations, the authors expose the poverty of so-called international protocols and resolutions which claim to offer solutions. They show how, in virtually every case, these resolutions remain part of the problem of continuing poverty and environmental degradation in the non-Western world.

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