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- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
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September 01 2012
The future we don’t want: Some thoughts after
Rio+20
Sustainable development is a highly political issue, dealing with
huge struggles of power and (short term) economic interest.
By Leida Rijnhout ◾ Northern Alliance for Sustainibility
July 14 2012
A Post Rio+20 World: Planning Our Own
Sustainable Futures after a Summit ...
We as citizens of the world are now left to look after our own
sustainable futures. Advancing global citizen’s movement to ...
By Rights for Sustainability Initiative ◾ Uchita de Zoysa
July 13 2012
The world needs an ambitious global agenda that
links finances, society and the environment
No country or group of countries today has the capacity to exercise
policy leadership, globally speaking. The traditional ...
By International Labour Organization ◾ Juan Somavia
July 06 2012
The terms of the present ecological debate
Río+20 showed that the industrialized countries do not want to
abdicate their position. The emerging countries want to catch ...
By Leonardo Boff
June 08 2012
Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the
Earth Summit
This report, written from the Latin American and Caribbean
perspective, describes the progress made and the gaps that remain ...
By Cepal
June 05 2012
No Future Without Justice
We need to build a new narrative of development and sustainability
that can permeate daily life, public and social arenas ...
By Reflection Group ◾ Social Watch ◾ Third World Network
April 18 2012
Green New Deal or Globalisation Lite?
The word ‘deal’ gives the lie to new, for these are mostly trade-off
packages designed to hold together the narrow political arena ...
By Ariel Salleh
March 03 2012
Life beyond Growth
After thousands of years of steadily increasing growth, it seems
possible that the human species is realizing that it will soon ...
By Institute for Studies in Happiness Economy and Society
February 03 2012
Socioeconomic Democracy and Sustainable
Development
Socioeconomic Democracy is a theoretically consistent and
practically implementable socioeconomic system wherein there ...
By Center for the Study of Democratic Societies ◾ Robley E. George
January 22 2012
From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan
Order
Who gets what, when and why are no longer questions confined to
state silos, democratic or otherwise? Who makes the rules ...
By David Held ◾ Social Europe Journal