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The literatures and debates on human development on the one hand and sustainability on the other share much in common …. Human development is essentially what sustainability advocates want to sustain and without sustainability, human development … the Human Development Index (HDI) can be linked with measures of both weak and strong sustainability. Weak sustainability …
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The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be …
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This paper presents an initial review of the theoretical and measurement discussions of sustainability and its relation … sustainability. We review some of those measures, among which the Adjusted Net Savings (a green national accounting measure … calculated by the World Bank and rooted in a weak concept of sustainability), the Ecological Footprint (calculated by the Global …
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sustainability. With respect to the inter-regional issue, we do not take a fundamentally normative approach, but rather a political …
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Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even...
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? Preoccupied with environmental sustainability, globalization of production and consumption, the Report rightly asks, after a …
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reduction, human development and sustainability. The Report concludes that the links between economic growth and human …
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The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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and environmental sustainability. World leaders promised to work together to meet concrete targets for advancing …
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Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so...
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