Essays on Agenda 21

- Evaluating media/news sources In the United States of America, the mass media plays a crucial role in transmitting information to the wider audience that is the American public. Mass media may include the television channels, newspapers, radio and to some extent, the internet. These sources give different types of information to the consumers, depending on their preference or orientation to the political parties. - CBS Corporation The CBS Corporation puts much of its emphasis on publishing, commercial broadcasting and television production. Most of the corporation’s operations are based in the United States of America. Currently, ...

In almost all nations around the globe, there are issues that raise eyebrows in the society. These may be of a political, social or economic nature. In most cases, the issues are critical in nature. When this happens, heated debates always arise as to which the best position to follow should be. The divergent perceptions that people tend to develop due to the various issues that arise call for a proper decision making process in order to ensure that unity of the nation is achieved. Most of the political issues in America always end up being controversial. This is because of ...

Report: Sustainability of London 2012 Olympic Games

Executive Summary In 1996, the Olympic Charter was amended by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) to commit the movement to a policy promoting sustainable development, effectively adding concerns for the environment as “the third pillar of Olympism, alongside sport and culture.” (“Focus: Sport And Sustainability” Apr 2011). Then in 1999 the IOC added education to its initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of sustainability. This report provides an overview of the sustainability plan put forward by the London 2012 Olympic Games organisers, including all five of the suggested aspects of sustainability. Those five key areas were: Climate ...

Food production and food security remain to be the greatest challenges the world faces currently. This has led to a shift in world attention to the pressing need to increase agricultural production especially in Third World Countries which have been largely hit by chronic food shortages. In this respect, most countries such as Jamaica have taken various steps towards food production in line with the 1996 World Food Summit Plan of Action. Most developing countries were forced by harsh economic times and high debts to accept aid loans from the International Monetary Fund, which is among the world’s financial ...

ABSTRACT/INTRODUCTION

This paper has two very useful references that give a great deal of information about the topic—the United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform and the International Institute for Sustainable Development websites. They define the meaning of the term sustainable development and how it has evolved over time since the 1987 Bruntland Report and the 1992 Rio Summit, and the UN website in particular has a great deal of information about the various summits and conferences that have occurred since Rio as well as plans and actions underway from various governments and stakeholders on a wide variety of development and environmental issues. ...

Introduction

It is becoming clear that the many practices that are seen in lifestyles today cannot meet sustainability in a definite manner. The planet is becoming small and more resources are not in a position to be produced. What is more, there are many inhabitants who cannot even provide the very basic needs that they need. The problem of the need to live with the limited resources that are there today with equal access to limited resources is one of the concepts of sustainable development. There is complexity in engineering and products; this has called for engineers to consider ways of approaching ...