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Environment, security, and UN reform

Author: Mark Imber
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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"In a post-Cold War world, a world at peace, over 12 million Third-World children die from preventable causes every year. That is one million children every month. These casualties of poverty and the appalling environmental conditions typical of many developing countries, are the equivalent to the casualties that would be caused by repeating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki every three days. The conventional  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Imber
ISBN: 0312121687 9780312121686 0312121695 9780312121693 0333605896 9780333605899 033360590X 9780333605905
OCLC Number: 29878068
Description: xi, 180 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. Two Hiroshimas Every Week --
2. Debt, Poverty and Environment --
3. The Global Commons --
4. The UNEP Role --
5. Two Cheers for Rio, 1992 --
6. Beyond UNCED: Revenues and Reforms --
Appendix 1: The Stockholm Principles (1972) --
Appendix 2: General Assembly Resolution 43/196 --
Appendix 3: Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.
Other Titles: Environment, security, and United Nations reform
Responsibility: Mark F. Imber.
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"In a post-Cold War world, a world at peace, over 12 million Third-World children die from preventable causes every year. That is one million children every month. These casualties of poverty and the appalling environmental conditions typical of many developing countries, are the equivalent to the casualties that would be caused by repeating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki every three days. The conventional language of 'security' and 'environmental quality' is severely tested when we confront the need for environmental security, as a post-Cold War imperative. This book studies the interplay of three particular facets of the connection between environment and development: the role of Third-World debt in perpetuating both poverty and environmental damage; the extension of the 'common-heritage of mankind' concept to include, not only the seas, but also the atmosphere and climate system, both to protect the commons and raise resources for development; and the reform of the UN in the aftermath of the many promises made at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit (UNCED)."--Jacket.

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