U.S.–China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable Development

Abstract The industrial age has brought us much good: a higher quality of life which is reflected in better healthcare and education, a longer life expectancy etc. But besides the indisputable benefits, the industrial age has also caused many problems which are now assuming global proportions. In 1987 UN Commission on Environment and Development attempted to propose how to enable people and whole nations to develop while sustaining functioning ecosystems and healthy environment. The key term became “sustainable development”. But problem with sustainable development concept is that it is so vague and “all-embracing”. Its biggest deficiency is the fact that it fails to attempt to even define human needs. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 conference, June 2012) did not change current unsustainable development trends. Therefore we should allow for and ponder the possibility that effort at sustainable development will fail and the human community will experience great civilization turbulence. Maybe it is too late for sustainable development, what we need is a sustainable retreat. Our abilities are limited and promoting sustainable development may prove to be beyond us. In comparison with our ancestors we have much greater opportunities. But this has not been counterbalanced by greater responsibility and foresight. We should explore and study future opportunities and dangers that could occur under certain conditions. These images of possible futures may help to make our present decisions more qualified and responsible.

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Healthy environment—healthy people: The links between sustainable development and health

Public Health ◽

10.1016/j.puhe.2005.08.004 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 119 (11) ◽

pp. 952-953 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Jonathon Porritt

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Healthy People ◽

Healthy Environment

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The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements

Frontiers in Communication ◽

10.3389/fcomm.2021.715900 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Theodore Lai ◽

Cecilia Tortajada

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

20Th Century ◽

Common Good ◽

Human Life ◽

Historical Review ◽

Late 20Th Century ◽

Holy See ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Global Environmental ◽

Social Teachings

Laudato Si has garnered acclaim from world leaders and actors who support care for the environment. The encyclical has received praise for its ability to communicate the Church’s environmental views to the secular world. Yet the views of the Holy See in global environmental issues prior to Laudato Si have received inadequate attention. We conduct a historical review of the Holy See’s involvement in United Nations environmental efforts from the mid-20th Century to the present day. This reflects much of the work done in the late 20th Century by local dioceses all over the world. In doing so, we draw from the Holy See’s record of apostolic letters and speeches penned by Popes and various Church officials in the 20th Century, which we draw from the Vatican archives and libraries. We show that a clear critique of industrial pollution first emerged in the official addresses and letters penned by Pope Paul VI in the early 1960s. We also show that the Holy See has joined the global community on the pursuit of sustainable development that promotes human dignity, and the right to development and to a healthy environment for all, mainly the poorest populations. We argue that Laudato Si is better thought of as a culmination of the Catholic Church’s social teachings, which state that concern for the environment means respect for human life and dignity, promotion of the common good and the virtue of solidarity, and exercising responsibility to the poor and vulnerable. These are principles that align closely with the secular discourse on sustainable development.

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Transport industry as a business infrastructure: modern stage and prospects of development

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202021703007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 217 ◽

pp. 03007

Author(s):

Pakrawee Vanpetch ◽

Anastasia Ostovskaya

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Considerable Effort ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Motor Transport ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Standards Of Living ◽

Basic Index ◽

Transport Industry

The condition of the motor transport industry largely defines the progressive socio-economic changes in any country. It also serves a basic index of state development from the perspective of standards of living and healthy environment for economic growth and business activities. The motor transport industry reflects efficiency of the state policy, which also includes effective budget funding of the industry. The most developed countries make a considerable effort to maintain the motor transport system infrastructure and to stimulate development and integration of innovation technologies, which meets the goals of the national economy’s sustainable development. Paper analyzes some modern patterns and prospects of transport industry development on the examples of Asia and Russia economical systems.

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The relationship between the principle of sustainable development and the human right to a clean and healthy environment in Kenya’s legal context: An appraisal

Environmental Law Review ◽

10.1177/1461452920952584 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 184-197

Author(s):

Rosemary Mwanza

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Legal System ◽

Human Right ◽

Ecological Processes ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

The People ◽

Legal Context ◽

The Relationship

Kenya’s legal system is characterised by a plurality of constitutional norms that are relevant for governing the relationship between the environment and the people. Key among these are the principle of sustainable development (SD) and the human right to a clean and healthy environment (HRHE). Both norms were constitutionalised in 2010, a development that represents what scholars have termed environmental constitutionalism and sustainability constitutionalism, respectively. The constitutionalisation of the principle of SD and the HRHE is a welcome development which has the potential to fill some gaps that existed in the old constitutional arrangement. At the same time, this development is set against a backdrop of critical debates that question their effectiveness in regard to environmental protection. This article demonstrates that the two norms have developed in a manner that is responsive to the salient criticism raised against them. Moreover, courts in Kenya have construed them as complementary norms. Specifically, courts in Kenya have applied the HRHE to clarify the meaning and scope of the environmental prong of SD and construed the duty to pursue ecologically SD (a component of SD) as encompassing the obligation to protect ecological processes that support all life.

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Enhancement Operation System Model in Managing Local Resources-Based Environment towards Sustainable Development

10.31227/osf.io/mjhu6 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Andysah Putera Utama Siahaan ◽

Solly Aryza

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Law ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Operation System ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Local Resources ◽

Core Components ◽

Mining Law ◽

Control Evaluation

This paper discussed at exploring an appropriate model in managing environment that may accommodate and optimize local resources, such as human resources and natural resources. This is important to create and maintain the sustainable development for all. In manifesting the sustainable development, this work found a new paradigm in sustainable development which is based on the local resources. In detail, it elaborates and discusses some core components of the model of sustainable development that includes: (i) ontology; (ii) epistemology; and (iii) axiology of sustainable development. The ontological element of sustainable development could be found in Pancasila, the principle five, that is social justice for all Indonesian constitution 1945, article 28 h that guarantee the healthy environment for all. While the epistemological level, this work will coherency all diametrical policies and norms or regulations that related to the situation, such as environmental law, investment law, mining law, agrarian law, forestry law, marine and coastal law, and so forth. All those elements should be embodied in the appropriate mechanism and operational model, that cover the implementation, control, evaluation, development and recovery stages. In the end, this work offers an appropriate model for creating local resources based-environmental management that guaranteeing the sustainable development for all.

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COMPENSATION FOR ENVIRONMENT

RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.47832/2717-8293.8-3.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 03 (08) ◽

pp. 81-93

Author(s):

Leila KRACHE

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Pollution ◽

Civil Liability ◽

Future Generations ◽

Environmental Responsibility ◽

Environmental Damage ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Environmental Damages ◽

Technological Developments ◽

The Right

The right to a healthy environment is one of the rights of peoples and present and ‎future generations, especially in light of modern technological developments that ‎have contributed greatly to the rate of environmental pollution, which has ‎multiplied environmental damage, and to confront these environmental damages, ‎there were many efforts at the international and internal levels.‎ ‎In keeping with comparative legislation, the legislator introduced the first law ‎for the protection of the environment under Law 10/03 relating to the protection ‎of the environment within the framework of sustainable development, which is ‎characterized by its preventive and deterrent nature, but it did not provide for ‎civil penalties related to compensation for environmental damage, which means ‎the implementation of the traditional rules recognized in the field of Civil liability ‎that is no longer appropriate given the specificity of environmental damage‎‎‎. Keywords: EEnvironmental Damage, Environment, Environmental Responsibility, ‎Compensation, Environmental Pollution, Implementation, Sustainable ‎Development

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Strategic environmental impact assessment in spatial planning an instrument for assessment of importance of plan solutions for environmental protection and sustainable development

Glasnik srpskog geografskog drustva ◽

10.2298/gsgd0502119f ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 85 (2) ◽

pp. 119-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dejan Filipovic ◽

Danijela Obradovic

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Impact ◽

Impact Assessment ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Environmental Impact Assessment ◽

Spatial Planning ◽

Great Influence ◽

Environmental Aspect ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Human Needs

Protection, improvement and rational utilization of the environment becomes more and more primary task in modern society's struggle for more ecological healthy and humane living and working conditions. In order to living conditions satisfy man's social, economic, health and other needs protection, improvement and utilization of the environment must be in accordance with principles of sustainable development. Fact that planned solutions have great influence on quality of some environmental elements imposes importance of spatial planning for providing healthy environment as one of basic human needs. As in many planning documents environmental aspect was not considering in the way that it was needed to be, there arose a need for Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment in aim to verify are the planning documents in coherence with environmental protection and sustainable development.

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Cluster Analysis for the Determination of Innovative and Sustainable Oriented Regions in Europe

Studia Universitatis „Vasile Goldis” Arad – Economics Series ◽

10.2478/sues-2018-0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 36-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Corina Pelau ◽

Alexandra-Catalina Chinie

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Second Phase ◽

Cluster Membership ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Innovation Research ◽

Sustainable Societies ◽

Contextual Indicators ◽

Multivariate Cluster

Abstract In the past decades the preoccupation of decision-makers towards innovation and sustainable development has gained a major importance in the policy of most countries in Europe. On one hand, efficient innovation can differentiate a country or a region from another and make a difference in the intense increasing economic, technological and social competition. On the other hand, the orientation towards sustainable development assures a clean and unpolluted, social oriented and healthy environment as a framework for the growth of a country or a region. In many cases, innovation and sustainable development go hand in hand, as innovations contribute to the development of clean technologies, while sustainable societies assure the proper environment and background for stimulating the innovation research. The objective of this research is to determine the cluster of countries in Europe which are rather oriented to innovation or to sustainable development or both and to forecast their future developments and tendencies. In order to achieve this objective, the multivariate cluster analysis was applied with the help of the SPSS program, for data provided by the Eurostat for several innovation, sustainable development and contextual indicators. In a first step, for each of the analyzed countries, the values of the indicators have been collected for the same period and the correlations among them have been determined. In the second phase the number of clusters and the cluster membership of each country was determined, by running the Ward cluster analysis. Based on the results, the characteristics of each cluster of countries was defined.

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