Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development

Dr. Zsuzsa Gille, Associate Professor of LAS Global Studies and Sociology, Dr. Jesse Ribot, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy (SDEP) Initiative, and Dr.

Faculty: 
Jesse Ribot
Robert Pahre
Zsuzsa Gille
Cluster: 
Sustainable Development
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A Global Review of Sustainable Consumption Policies

October 27, 2010
Author(s): Rebecca Gresh
Affiliation: PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publication Type: Policy Brief
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Rebecca Gresh discusses the current status of industrialized countries’ uses of world resources, as well as recent actions to address sustainable consumption. She notes that critiques of the recent Marrakech Process by scholars demonstrate the need for increasing structural and collective measures to address sustainable consumption in an equitable way.

 

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Science and Technology and the Survival of Humankind

Web Address: http://willmedia.will.uiuc.edu/ramgen/cas/liu.rm
Date: April 16, 2009
Speaker(s): Edison Liu
Organization: Genome Institute of Singapore
Keywords: Biotechnology; CAS Millercomm Lecture; Energy; Sustainable Development
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: Real Media
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Warming and Crop Production in the US and Beyond

Download Link: http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/11813/lobell_2009_food_climate.pdf?sequence=2
Date: March 5, 2009
Author(s): David B. Lobell
Affiliation: Food Security and Environment Program, Stanford University
Keywords: 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Agriculture; Climate Change; Sustainable Development
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
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