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Jinwu Pang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Implementing China's “Water Agenda 21”
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2006Co-Authors: Xiaoliu Yang, Jinwu PangAbstract:China's per capita available water is only 2220 m3, about a quarter of the world average. As a result, China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water for agricultural and general population use. Poor water resource development, wasteful usage, and water pollution are all exacerbating the problem. Water-related issues have seriously hampered economic development in China, especially in recent decades, while the country has undergone rapid economic growth. Implementing a sustainable water resource strategy is therefore vital. To meet the goals of national economic reconstruction and development, and to solve the water shortage problem, China's “Water Agenda 21” was formulated in 1998. This paper focuses on the implementation of this strategy and discusses China's approach to solving its water-shortage problems in order to safeguard sustainable socioeconomic development.
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implementing china s water Agenda 21
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2006Co-Authors: Xiaoliu Yang, Jinwu PangAbstract:China's per capita available water is only 2220 m3, about a quarter of the world average. As a result, China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water for agricultural and general population use. Poor water resource development, wasteful usage, and water pollution are all exacerbating the problem. Water-related issues have seriously hampered economic development in China, especially in recent decades, while the country has undergone rapid economic growth. Implementing a sustainable water resource strategy is therefore vital. To meet the goals of national economic reconstruction and development, and to solve the water shortage problem, China's “Water Agenda 21” was formulated in 1998. This paper focuses on the implementation of this strategy and discusses China's approach to solving its water-shortage problems in order to safeguard sustainable socioeconomic development.
Carlo Aall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Municipal Environmental Policy in Norway: From 'mainstream' policy to 'real' Agenda 21?
Local Environment, 2000Co-Authors: Carlo AallAbstract:The Brundtland report and Agenda 21 focus on the global environment and development problems. Though Norway is usually considered a pioneer with respect to sustainable development, analyses have shown that this has not been the case with respect to Local Agenda 21. Still, Norwegian municipalities have strengthened their institutional capacity on environmental policy, and have thereby strengthened their ability to follow up the recommendations in Agenda 21. Through the high-profile government-financed reform programme, Environment in the Municipalities, which ran from 1988 to 1996, a great majority of the municipalities have employed their own environmental officers, and environmental considerations have gradually obtained a footing in municipal planning. So far, however, it is the local environmental problems that have received most attention rather than global environmental and development problems. By the start of the 21st century a crucial question is, therefore, whether the growing number of Local Age...
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municipal environmental policy in norway from mainstream policy to real Agenda 21
Local Environment, 2000Co-Authors: Carlo AallAbstract:The Brundtland report and Agenda 21 focus on the global environment and development problems. Though Norway is usually considered a pioneer with respect to sustainable development, analyses have shown that this has not been the case with respect to Local Agenda 21. Still, Norwegian municipalities have strengthened their institutional capacity on environmental policy, and have thereby strengthened their ability to follow up the recommendations in Agenda 21. Through the high-profile government-financed reform programme, Environment in the Municipalities, which ran from 1988 to 1996, a great majority of the municipalities have employed their own environmental officers, and environmental considerations have gradually obtained a footing in municipal planning. So far, however, it is the local environmental problems that have received most attention rather than global environmental and development problems. By the start of the 21st century a crucial question is, therefore, whether the growing number of Local Age...
Xiaoliu Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Implementing China's “Water Agenda 21”
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2006Co-Authors: Xiaoliu Yang, Jinwu PangAbstract:China's per capita available water is only 2220 m3, about a quarter of the world average. As a result, China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water for agricultural and general population use. Poor water resource development, wasteful usage, and water pollution are all exacerbating the problem. Water-related issues have seriously hampered economic development in China, especially in recent decades, while the country has undergone rapid economic growth. Implementing a sustainable water resource strategy is therefore vital. To meet the goals of national economic reconstruction and development, and to solve the water shortage problem, China's “Water Agenda 21” was formulated in 1998. This paper focuses on the implementation of this strategy and discusses China's approach to solving its water-shortage problems in order to safeguard sustainable socioeconomic development.
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implementing china s water Agenda 21
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2006Co-Authors: Xiaoliu Yang, Jinwu PangAbstract:China's per capita available water is only 2220 m3, about a quarter of the world average. As a result, China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water for agricultural and general population use. Poor water resource development, wasteful usage, and water pollution are all exacerbating the problem. Water-related issues have seriously hampered economic development in China, especially in recent decades, while the country has undergone rapid economic growth. Implementing a sustainable water resource strategy is therefore vital. To meet the goals of national economic reconstruction and development, and to solve the water shortage problem, China's “Water Agenda 21” was formulated in 1998. This paper focuses on the implementation of this strategy and discusses China's approach to solving its water-shortage problems in order to safeguard sustainable socioeconomic development.
Cristina Teixeira - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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educacao e desenvolvimento sustentavel na Agenda 21 brasileira
Intelligenza Artificiale, 2008Co-Authors: Cristina TeixeiraAbstract:o presente artigo faz uma analise critica das diretrizes relativas a educacao na Agenda 21 brasileira, apresentada como um instrumento de planejamento para o desenvolvimento sustentavel que compatibiliza conservacao ambiental, justica social e crescimento economico. Na Agenda 21 brasileira, a educacao deve promover a inclusao social e contribuir para a insercao do Brasil na economia globalizada, insercao esta definida como condicao para o desenvolvimento sustentavel. observa-se que, em ultima instância, as propostas para a educacao na Agenda 21 brasileira sao funcionais a insercao do pais ao mesmo modelo socioeconomico no qual esta a raiz da insustentabilidade.
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educacao e desenvolvimento sustentavel na Agenda 21 brasileira
AMBIENTE & EDUCAÇÃO - Revista de Educação Ambiental, 2006Co-Authors: Cristina TeixeiraAbstract:This paper is a critical analysis of the norms regarding education in the Brazilian Agenda 21, which is presented as a planning tool for sustainable development that encompasses environmental preservation, social justice, and economic growth. The Brazilian Agenda 21 states that education must promote social inclusion and contribute towards Brazil’s insertion in a globalized economy; this is a condition for sustainable development. I have observed that the proposals for education in the Brazilian Agenda 21 are “functional” since they insert the country into the same socioeconomic model which holds the root of unsustainability. Key words: Education and Sustainable Development; Brazilian Agenda 21; Sustainable Development.
Timothy Oriordan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the political significance of local Agenda 21 the early stages of some european experience
Local Environment, 1996Co-Authors: Heather Voisey, Christiane Beuermann, Liv Astrid Sverdrup, Timothy OriordanAbstract:Abstract Sustainable development, as it emerged in Agenda 21 from the Rio conference in 1992, will only be meaningful when it touches the lives of ordinary people; then it becomes a reality. Local Agenda 21 (LA21) seeks to achieve that objective. This article assesses the origins of LA21, reviews its social and political significance, and considers its prospects in the light of case study experience emerging from the UK, Germany and Norway, focusing on the role of local government as a major stakeholder in Agenda 21 (A21). The range of response to LA21 has proved to be varied. A successful transformation to a more sustainable world will require visionary political leadership, supportive administrations, networks of experience sharing, alliances with non‐governmental organisations and local industry, and effective community mobilisation. All of that, in turn, requires equally supportive economic and social policy backing from national governments. This article will indicate that, not surprisingly, it is th...
