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Innovation, Science, Environment 1987-2007 : Special Edition: Charting Sustainable Development in Canada, 1987-2007.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Innovation, Science, Environment SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773576353
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Innovation, Science, Environment 1987-2007DDC classification:
  • 352.7/450971
LOC classification:
  • GE190.C3 I55 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Engaging with Sustainable Development: Setting the Canadian Experience in Context -- 2 Why Aren't We There Yet? Twenty Years of Sustainable Development: A Personal View -- 3 Institutionalizing Sustainable Development: The Role of Government Institutions -- 4 Post-Brundtland 2007: Governance for Sustainable Development as if It Mattered -- 5 Polls, Politics, and Sustainability -- 6 The Politics of Sustainability in a Complex Federal State -- 7 Education for Sustainable Development: Cure or Placebo? -- 8 Canadian Business and the Sustainability Challenge: Engagement and Performance -- 9 A Child of Brundtland: The Institutional Evolution of the National Round Table on the Environment and Economy -- 10 The Best of Brundtland: The Story of the International Institute for Sustainable Development -- 11 Advocate or Auditor? The Conflicted Role of the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development -- 12 Building a Sustainable Development Infrastructure in Canada: The Genesis and Rise of Sustainable Development Technology Canada -- Contributors.
Summary: This special edition of Innovation, Science, Environment includes reflections from a number of Canada's leading sustainable development thinkers, two decades after the 1987 publication of the seminal United Nations report Our Common Future. Published by the World Commission on Environment and Development - and often referred to as the Brundtland Commission Report after its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland former Prime Minister of Norway - the report popularized the concept of sustainable development which continues to influence economic, environmental, and social policy decisions and structures in individual countries and international organizations.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Engaging with Sustainable Development: Setting the Canadian Experience in Context -- 2 Why Aren't We There Yet? Twenty Years of Sustainable Development: A Personal View -- 3 Institutionalizing Sustainable Development: The Role of Government Institutions -- 4 Post-Brundtland 2007: Governance for Sustainable Development as if It Mattered -- 5 Polls, Politics, and Sustainability -- 6 The Politics of Sustainability in a Complex Federal State -- 7 Education for Sustainable Development: Cure or Placebo? -- 8 Canadian Business and the Sustainability Challenge: Engagement and Performance -- 9 A Child of Brundtland: The Institutional Evolution of the National Round Table on the Environment and Economy -- 10 The Best of Brundtland: The Story of the International Institute for Sustainable Development -- 11 Advocate or Auditor? The Conflicted Role of the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development -- 12 Building a Sustainable Development Infrastructure in Canada: The Genesis and Rise of Sustainable Development Technology Canada -- Contributors.

This special edition of Innovation, Science, Environment includes reflections from a number of Canada's leading sustainable development thinkers, two decades after the 1987 publication of the seminal United Nations report Our Common Future. Published by the World Commission on Environment and Development - and often referred to as the Brundtland Commission Report after its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland former Prime Minister of Norway - the report popularized the concept of sustainable development which continues to influence economic, environmental, and social policy decisions and structures in individual countries and international organizations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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