Mexico City: our common future?

Mexico City: our common future?

This paper describes Mexico City’s environmental problems, how and why they arose, and how they have changed over the last ten years. This includes an interest in how the problems have been affected by environmental policies and demographic structures. It highlights how some environmental problems are simply characteristics of large cities while others can only be understood in relation to spec...

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Sustainable Development in the 21 st century (SD21) project Summary for policymakers

Climate change and health in Maldives: Protecting our common future.

The term “sustainable development” was first defined in 1987, in the seminal report, Our common future, subsequently more commonly known as The Brundtland report.1 The report was the synthesis of 3 years’ work by the World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, who would go on to be Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1998 to 200...

Our adolescents--our future.

Simulation of Mexico City plumes

Simulation of Mexico City plumes during the MIRAGE-Mex field campaign using the WRF-Chem model X. Tie, S. Madronich, G. Li, Z. Ying, A. Weinheimer, E. Apel, and T. Campos National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA Molina Center for Energy and the Environment, La Jolla, CA, USA Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M, USA York University, Canada Received: 19 March 2009 – Ac...