Stumbling Toward Sustainability

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John C. Dernbach
Environmental Law Institute, 2002 - Law - 1004 pages
In 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed to implement an ambitious plan for ecologically sustainable human development. This book is a comprehensive review of U.S. efforts to achieve such development since Rio. The U.S. has unquestionably begun to take steps toward sustainable development. Yet the nation is now far from being a sustainable society, and in many respects is farther away than it was in 1992. Nevertheless, legal and policy tools are available to put the U.S. on a direct path to sustainability. This book brings together 42 distinguished experts from a variety of backgrounds and academic disciplines. It is among the most thorough assessments ever conducted of U.S. law and policy concerning the environment.
 

Contents

A Lot of Bad News
2
Summary
8
Chapter
26
Kindergarten Through TwelfthGrade
34
Now More Than Ever
45
Integrated Decisionmaking
51
Consequences for National Governance
57
Production and Consumption of Materials
58
Chapter
407
Population
424
Test Guidelines
426
Chapter
433
Interdisciplinary Approach
439
Chapter
443
Brownfields Redevelopment
457
Chapter
464

Chapter
63
Chapter
79
Key Trends in Indicators of Sustainable Development in Energy Production
85
Chapter
86
Conclusion
98
Chapter
99
Cairo Conference on Population and Development
102
Conclusion and Recommendations
111
Chapter
115
Procedural and Institutional Principles That Are Reforming Trade Policymaking
130
Recommendations on Trade and the Precautionary Principle
136
Public Participation
142
Chapter
149
Chapter
163
Chapter
173
A Promising Trend
176
Recommendations
191
Capital Markets Regulation
194
Chapter
197
Chapter
199
Water and Sustainability in the United StatesAn Assessment
200
Community Education School Partnerships and RealWorld Knowledge
206
58
214
Recommendations for a More Sustainable Water Future
217
Oceans and Estuaries
227
Sustainable Use and Conservation of Marine Living Resources of the High Seas
242
Conclusion and Overall Recommendation
254
Chapter
257
The Goal of Supplanting Basic Dirty Technologies
265
Conclusion
272
Chapter
273
Chapter
311
U S Biodiversity Protection Regimes
319
Recommendations and Conclusions
325
Chapter
327
Chapter
328
Forest Conservation Incentives
338
Agriculture
347
Sun Prairie Farms on the Rosebud
353
Chapter
359
Climate Change
363
A National Campaign to Protect Our Prime Agricultural Land From Encroaching
364
Land Use
369
Sustainable Land Use The United States Still Has a Challenge to Meet the Goals
381
Chapter
403
Chapter
405
Problems of Measurement
470
Chapter
479
U S Sustainability Progress and Backsliding for Various Types of Radioactive Waste
496
Mixed Hazardous and Chemical Waste
502
Public Access to Information Participation and Justice
511
Chapter
512
Chapter
513
Why Should We Care About Population Size and Growth?
517
246
532
Establish a Forum to Engage Citizens in Sustainable Development Issues
536
Chapter
541
Official Development Assistance
542
Globalization and Its Discontents
547
Competitive Environmental Strategy
554
315
565
Course Adjustments
566
Daring the Journey Toward Environmentally Sustainable Globalization
573
U S Compliance With Major Commitments Under the United Nations Framework
580
Higher Education
584
Assessing Developments in the United States
591
82
592
Chapter
593
Points of Theological Resonance
600
Chapter
607
Chapter
625
200
636
Chapter
647
Recognize How U S Public Policy Has Diminished Our Choices
660
Chapter
667
Chapter
671
Chapter
683
Regional Efforts
690
Conclusion
698
Chapter
701
141
713
Chapter
723
Endnotes
747
533
777
558
786
Adequacy of Justifications for Failing to Create Meaningful Greenhouse Gas Emissions
788
275
804
663
934
Appendices
952
The Earth Charter
997
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