Human Settlements: The Environmental Challenge. A Compendium of United Nations Papers Prepared for the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, 1972

1975 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
T. W. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
Environmental Challenge

The Evolution of International Environmental Law

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Sand
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
Modern Era

Close interaction with national laws and policies has been the major driving force for innovation in international environmental law to the point where economists have noted with some perplexity the ‘non-ergodic world’ of environmental regimes, which is subject not only to unforeseeable natural and technological changes, but also teeming with regulatory approaches that are new, often divergent, and competing. Most descriptions of the historical evolution of international environmental law distinguish three or four major ‘periods’ or ‘phases’: the ‘traditional era’ until about 1970 (preceding the 1972 United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment), which is sometimes sub-divided into a pre-1945 and a post-1945 period; the ‘modern era’ from Stockholm to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro; and the ‘post-modern era’ after Rio. This article discusses developments in treaties during the modern era, along with developments in dispute settlement and national law, and the development of international environmental law as a discipline.

The Land Ethic: A New Philosophy for International Relations

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Barkdull ◽  
Paul G. Harris
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Land Ethic ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Environmental Diplomacy ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
First Time ◽  
Environmental Challenge

The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment brought world leaders together for the first time to discuss the environmental challenge. Since Stockholm, environmental diplomacy has addressed many issues, with varying results. Some success has been achieved, but in general the record shows the inadequacy of international cooperation to meet the environmental challenge.

International Law on the Agenda of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Towards Global Environmental Security?

1991 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Peter H. Sand
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
Stockholm Conference

AbstractBy resolution 44/228 of 22 December 1989, the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene a United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) to be held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in June 1992 at the highest possible level of participation.1 The Rio Conference will mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, which had indeed envisaged the holding of a follow-up conference,2 a recommendation echoed by the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Report).3

Looking Through Palme’s Vision for the Global Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Anna Sundström
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
International Action ◽  
Stockholm Conference

Olof Palme, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, underlined the importance of a firm global response to the growing environmental crisis in his 06 June 1972 address to the first UN Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) held in Stockholm. He prophetically observed: “it is absolutely necessary that concerted, international action is undertaken . . . solutions will require far-reaching changes in attitudes and social structures”. Almost 50 years later, it is painfully clear that the necessary changes have not taken place and that time is now even more limited to make the necessary, far-reaching changes. How can the conclusions from the Stockholm Conference and ideas envisioned by Olof Palme can guide us into a better common greener future?

scholarly journals United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 1227-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Vasseur
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Environment

Redefining the Issues: NGO Influence on International Forest Negotiations

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Forest Policy ◽  
Environmental Challenge

How successful have nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) been in influencing international forest policy? Specifically, how effective have they been at altering the texts of international forest policy declarations and agreements? This paper studies NGO efforts to influence international forest policy from the mid-1980s, when deforestation first emerged as an international environmental challenge, to 2001 when the United Nations Forum on Forests was created. This paper demonstrates that, in the short term, NGOs are more effective when they: 1. involve themselves in the early stages of negotiations, 2. suggest substantive and procedural ideas that are already well-known in fora outside forest politics, and 3. align their suggestions with the prevailing neoliberal discourse of international politics. The paper suggests that such conditions can be rather limited and thus speculates about NGO efforts within a longer time frame.

The Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment

1972 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayland Kennet
Keyword(s):  
Human Environment ◽  
Stockholm Conference

scholarly journals «A New Global Ethic»: A History of the United Nations International Environmental Education Program, 1975-1995

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

In 1975, the United Nations, under the auspices of its Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Environment Program (UNEP), established the International Environmental Education Program (IEEP). For two decades, IEEP aimed to accomplish goals ascribed to it by UNESCO member states and fostered communication across the international community through Connect, the UNESCO-UNEP environmental education newsletter. After reviewing UNESCO’s early involvement with the environment, this study examines IEEP’s development, beginning with its conceptual grounding in the 1968 UNESCO Biosphere Conference. It examines the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, moves on to the UNESCO-UNEP 1975 Belgrade Workshop, and continues with the world’s first intergovernmental conference dedicated to environmental education held in Tbilisi in 1977. The paper then uses Connect to trace changes in the form and content of environmental education. Across two decades, environmental education shifted from providing instruction about nature protection and natural resource conservation to fostering an environmental ethic through a problems-based, interdisciplinary study of the ecology of the total environment to adopting the concept of sustainable development. IEEP ultimately met with mixed success. Yet it was the primary United Nations program assigned the task of creating and implementing environmental education globally and thus offers a particularly useful lens through which to analyze changes in the international community’s understanding of the concept of the environment over time.

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