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
The World Bank
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME
P.O. Box 30552
UNEP Nairobi, Kenya
UNEP
http://www.unep.org
N~ASA NASA Headquarters
300 E Street, S.W.
http://www.nasa.gov
THE WORLD BANK
http://www.worldbank.org
- Teacher: Gerhard Berchtold
- Teacher: Peter Hodecek