Towards Rio + 10 - Trend of environmentalism and implications for sustainable livelihoods in the 21st century, the context of southern African region

Delali B.K. Dovie

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Abstract

Since the Rio conference, many countries and organisations, including the environmental movement, bilateral and multilateral institutions have endeavoured to carry out activities related to the implementation of Agenda 21. These have mostly been done with or without other outcomes of the conference. Several environmental management and sustainable development agenda have been pursued to halt the continually degrading environment. Other programmes have concentrated on outburst of economic development at the expense of the environment and the worsening poverty especially in the South. This paper therefore seeks to examine a paradigmatic shift in environmentalism, emphasising the link between agenda 21 and sustainable livelihoods. It seems though the history of the environmental movement has been forgotten after the Rio conference by the whole world. This might probably be due to complacency with the results of the UNCED conference. However, it is now obvious that clear objectives to implement the results of UNCED are almost lacking with little or no proper supervision, and further threatening the existence of mankind. The environmental movement and associated milestones have had significant impacts on the current status of the global commons. Regionally in most of southern Africa, livelihood issues are in the forefront of efforts to sustain environmental resources, and minimising proximate causes of global environmental change.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)51-67
Number of pages17
JournalEnvironment, Development and Sustainability
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Environmentalism
  • Global change
  • Interventions
  • Livelihoods
  • Poverty
  • Rio conference
  • Sustainable development

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