Course info

EnvStud 601 – Environmental Challenges – Environmental and Human Needs

Content:

Global Environmental Issues. Meeting Human Needs within the Environmental Envelope. Policies for Linking Human and Environmental Needs. Major Challenges for Development. A Synopsis of Eight Major Global Environmental Issue. International Conventions on Global Environmental Issues. International Conventions on Global Environmental Issues.

Course Lecturer: Gerhard Berchtold, PhD

ECTS credits: 4

Coursebook:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETENVIRONMENT/Resources/ProtectingOurPlanet.pdf

This report, Protecting Our Planet: Securing Our Future, is the result of a collaborative enterprise between the World Bank, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the United Nations Environment Programme, and depicts in a comprehensive manner the linkages- physical and biochemical - between a number of environmental issues. It also addresses the means by which interlinked global environmental issues can be confronted in an integrated manner.

Protecting Our Planet Securing Our Future

LINKAGES AMONG GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND HUMAN NEEDS

Robert T. Watson

John A. Dixon

Steven P. Hamburg

Anthony C. Janetos

Richard H. Moss

November 1998

United Nations Environment Programme

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The World Bank

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

P.O. Box 30552

UNEP Nairobi, Kenya

UNEP

http://www.unep.org

U.S. NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

N~ASA NASA Headquarters

300 E Street, S.W.

Washington, D.C.20546

http://www.nasa.gov

THE WORLD BANK

1818 H Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.20433USA

http://www.worldbank.org