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World economic and social survey 2013 : sustainable development challenges /
This volume "contributes to the deliberations on addressing sustainable development challenges with a focus on three important cross-sectoral issues identified for action and follow up at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: sustainable cities, food security and energy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
United Nations,
2013.
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| Colección: | World economic and social survey ;
2013. Economic & social affairs. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Global trends and challenges to sustainable development post-2015
- A more challenging context for global development
- Underlying global megatrends
- A more integrated, but multipolar and heterogeneous global economy
- A deeper globalization
- Financial globalization and financialization
- Convergence, but greater vulnerability and heterogeneity in the global economy
- Persistent inequalities
- Demographic changes
- Environmental degradation
- Threats to global ecosystems
- A strong sustainability challenge?
- Sustainable development in a more interdependent world
- Mutually reinforcing trends and challenges
- Strategies for sustainable development
- II. Strategies for development and transformation
- Process tracks of implementation of Agenda 21 and its consequences
- The impasse with regard to climate change mitigation
- Worries regarding poverty eradication and other human development goals.
- Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals
- Means of achieving an integrated post-2015 agenda
- Causes of the climate change mitigation impasse
- Causes of human development concerns
- Towards reintegration of human development and environment protection goals
- Strategies for transformation in developed countries
- Role of technology in ensuring sustainability
- Shifts in consumption patterns
- Means of bringing about shifts in consumption patterns
- Environmental accounting
- Shifts in consumption and quality of life
- Shifts in consumption patterns and the implications for employment and income
- Sustainable development strategies in developing countries
- A heterogeneous developing world
- Further progress in achieving the current Millennium Development Goals
- Human development through more equitable distribution post-2015
- Development in a more environmentally constrained post-2015 world.
- The South's initiatives towards sustainable development
- Challenges of financing human and sustainable development
- A new type of global cooperation
- III. Towards sustainable cities
- Introduction
- The city and main urbanization trends
- The scale and scope of urbanization
- Diverse paths and paces of urbanization
- Changing patterns of urban settlements
- Is there a twin path between urbanization and economic growth?
- A framework for sustainable cities
- The challenges associated with building sustainable cities
- Socioeconomic inequalities
- Sprawl and weakened capacities
- Energy access
- Common and differentiated impacts of natural hazards
- Opportunities for building sustainable cities
- An integrated and coordinated approach
- Trade-offs between investments?
- Learning by doing in building sustainable cities
- Act locally with national support and global coordination
- Financing sustainable cities.
- The scale and scope of needed finance
- A policy framework for sustainable financing
- Examples of financing strategies
- Annex: Examples of plans and policies for building sustainable cities
- IV. Ensuring food and nutrition security
- Introduction
- Multiple dimensions of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and over-nutrition
- Under-nutrition
- Food insecurity persists
- Impacts of under-nutrition: undernourishment and micronutrient deficiencies
- Over-nutrition
- Obesity on the rise
- Impacts of over-nutrition
- Increasing food availability
- Increasing agricultural productivity
- Extension services
- Increasing investment in R & D
- Sustainable management of natural resources
- Current unsustainable practices
- Improving management of natural resources
- Investments in rural infrastructures
- Improving access to food
- Limited access to food
- Generating income in rural areas.
- Improving agricultural income
- Non-farm economy
- Social security and safety nets
- Safety nets in the short term
- Social security in the long term
- A pro-food security international trade system
- The trade system
- Food security stocks and information transparency
- Diets and consumption patterns
- Sustainable diets
- Health and education policies to enhance nutrition security
- Health
- Information campaigns and educational programmes
- Consumption patterns: reducing waste
- Increasing financing for the agricultural sector
- The importance of increasing public investment in agriculture
- Incentives for private investment
- International support for agriculture
- V. The energy transformation challenge
- Introduction
- The evidence for climate change and human-activity generated emissions
- The room for effective action is shrinking
- The many paths to a sustainable energy transformation.
- The IPCC special report on renewables (2012)
- United Nations Environment Programme emissions gap report
- OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050
- Global Energy Assessment
- Sustainable energy with economic and social inclusion
- The challenge of transforming the energy system
- The technology challenge
- The investment challenge
- Implementing sustainable development
- Sustainable development pathways
- The enabling conditions for the transformation of the energy system
- Coherent national policies for sustainable development
- Sustainable energy systems in a global development agenda.