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Rio plus ten : politics, poverty and environment / Neil Middleton and Phil O'Keefe.
Lippincott Library HD75.6 .M534 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, Neil.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002 : Johannesburg, South Africa).
- World Summit on Sustainable Development.
- Sustainable development.
- Environmental policy--Political aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Poverty--Environmental aspects.
- Poverty.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 202 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Rio Plus Ten was an international conference that took place in Johannesburg, South Africa in 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 that 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.
- Contents:
- What did they agree?
- Cold water
- Hot air
- Other business
- Development and duplicity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745319556
- 0745319548
- OCLC:
- 51861778
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