Local to Global-Level Sustainable Mountain Development

Sustainable Mountain Development in China

Sustainable Mountain Development in Europe

1. The Mountains of Europe 1.1.Key Values of the Mountains 2. Sustainable Mountain Development: A New Priority 2.1.Defining Sustainable Mountain Development 2.2.Priorities from the European Intergovernmental Consultation 2.3.Priorities from the European Nongovernmental Consultation 3. Activities Connected with Sustainable Mountain Development in Europe 3.1.Initiatives Within Pan-European Instit...

Global bioethics: converting sustainable development to global survival.

Millions of people in various parts of the world and within each country are presently surviving in categories described as "mere," "miserable," "idealistic," "irresponsible," and "acceptable." The term "acceptable survival" is proposed as a bioethical goal of global survival, looking beyond the 21st century to the year 3000 and beyond. The frequently used alternative term is "sustainable devel...

Global Capitalism and Sustainable Development

This paper was prepared as a background paper for the panel on “Global Capitalism and Sustainable Development” in the International Conference on Global Ethos to be held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2000. It surveys the major issues involved in defining sustainability, and the relationship thereof to development and the behaviour of capitalist economies. A partic...

Digital Earth: Bridging the Scales from Global to Local for Sustainable Development

Digital Earth is a virtual representation of the planet, an information system with tremendous amount of multi-resolution and multi-scale data as shown in multiple dimensions. By acquiring the large amount of data of the Earth, and utilizing the techniques of computer, image and graphic processing, network, virtual reality and so on to study the real earth and its relevant phenomena in digital ...