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Sustainability, diversity, benefit sharing

Wohlstand ohne Wachstum?  Eine Diskussionsveranstaltung des Forums Wissenschafter für Umwelt

Novartis,  Pharma und Kapitalismus forte: ein Fallbeispiel aus Wien

Sharing of benefits, Regulationsmöglichkeiten von Märkten und Finanzkrisen  

A conference about resilience in food production and global change, GECAFS

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility, trade, patents and human ecology


Sustainability and Human Ecology:

In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development developed a definition of sustainability that was included in its findings, which became known as the Brundtland Report. It stated that: Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The UN Millennium Development Goals make clear that sustainability includes social aspects e.g. equity as well as the interaction between human and the environment: this interaction includes different levels such as: use, consumption, transition to socio- economic systems establishing a partnership with the environment as well as creation of secondary (eco)systems


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  • The results of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment demontrate that a sustainable development is based on the conservation of ecosystem diversity and ecosystem services
  • The objectives of the Millennium Development Goals are scrutinised by unsustainable developments threatening diversity and human health http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals --> TOTER LINK
  • To understand and enforce sustainability one must understand and agree on general principles. The International Institute for Sustainable Development gives advice and provids the text of the Bellagio Principles for the evaluation of sustainability Resilience Sience
  • INFO: The internetwork for sustainability informes about recent development: iNSnet
  • INFO: Resilience is a fundamental objective for sustainable development. The Blog gives excellent scientific help to undersatnd reslience. Resilience Sience II
  • INFO: An environmental tipping point is a point in a linked eco-social system where a small action can catalyze major changes in the system’s health. http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/what_is.html/ --> TOTER LINK
  • INFO: A footprint assessment computes a demand of a person, a city or a country on nature: The Ecological Footprint

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Developments of technologies often drive the development of societies. Technology related policy should try to shape technologies to avoid negative societal consequences e.g. inequity.

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