Suchergebnisse

En el presente ensayo el autor, luego de esbozar los problemas de degradacion del medio ambiente en la region, se centra en los retos de la implementacion del desarrollo sostenido en las actuales condiciones de pobreza, aceleracion del proceso de la urbanizacion y dinamica geografica. A continuacion expone algunas consideraciones sobre la gestacion y el manejo de desechos solidos, el rol de la cooperacion internacional y la funcion de la Agenda 21 ante las tareas pendientes. Concluye afirmando que bajo el modelo vigente de economia, sociedad, estado e integracion regional en Centroamerica es muy poco lo que se puede lograr respecto a los principios basicos de la Agenda 21 en el corto plazo. (DÜI-Rol)

This communication reviews the different definitions of sustainable development that have been devised and used in the diverse stages of the global debate since 1968. Agenda 21, of 1992, approaches the social and economic dimension: the struggle against the poverty, demographic dynamics, the protection of health and the sustainable development of areas. Further on it refers to the subjects of ecological orientation as referred to the protection of the earth's athmosphere, the fight against deforestation, biodiversity protection and the adequate treatment of waste. The third deals with the role and the participation of groups within the society (municipalities, industrialists, unions, the private sector, science and technology). Finally it analyzes the conditions which provide the framework for execution of this sustainable development, the financial and organizational instruments required. Ten years after the Rio Conference it cannot be affirmed that Agenda 21 has generated concreate impulses for an ecological mode of international relations.(Cuad CLAEH/GIGA)

Full text of Agenda 21, the plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment. Agenda 21 was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992.