Stumbling Toward SustainabilityJohn C. Dernbach 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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