U.S. Adherence to Its Agenda 21 Commitments: A Five-Year Review
Year: 1997
Type: preprint
Abstract: This article evaluates U.S. activities related to sustainability in the five-year period immediately following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (or Earth/summit). The article evaluates 17 different areas of activity, including agriculture, forestry, community sustainability, and official development assistance. In this period, the Earth Summit had little discernible effect on U.S. law and policy. The article recommends that the country adopt an overall sustainable development strategy, educate the public about the importance of sustainable development and the choices the nation faces, and intensify its efforts to move toward sustainable development. This article is the first of four such evaluations of U.S. sustainability efforts. The other three are books: Stumbling Toward Sustainabilty (2002), Agenda for a Sustainable America (2009), and Acting as if Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability (2012).
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: John C. Dernbach
Institution: Widener University
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1505702284