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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
Initiatives > Territories and local governance Ver todos >
![A paradigm shift for just, democratic and sustainable territories Mudança de paradigma, por territórios justos, democráticos e sustentáveis: Pela reforma urbana e agrária, agora!](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5384327665_4190c5a5bb_bis-160x110.jpg)
May 27 2012
A paradigm shift for just, democratic and
sustainable territories
Many popular movements and civil society networks are taking up the
challenge of building a model for sustainable urban society and ...
By International Alliance of Inhabitants
![Local Governments for Sustainability and Rio+20 Les villes dans l'Europe de 2020: accroître la durabilité dès maintenant!](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Postcard_EC2011_FR-160x110.jpg)
December 18 2011
Local Governments for Sustainability and Rio+20
ICLEI will continue to bring local government suggestions, concerns
and solutions to the table throughout this process, and urges ...
By ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainibility
![Paving the way of a global policy of balanced development and territorial cohesion Porter l’ambition d’une politique globale de développement équilibré et de cohésion territoriale](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3_package_dinfo_fr-160x110.jpg)
December 07 2011
Paving the way of a global policy of balanced
development and territorial cohesion
The current diagnoses show the need for development which is more
balanced spatially, in particular within the framework of ...
By Forum of Global Associations of Regions ◾ Regions United
![Local and Regional Governments towards Rio+20 Local and Regional Governments towards Rio+20](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/6332634752_3d00bd3492_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 21 2011
Local and Regional Governments towards Rio+20
Looking at how the new governance framework for sustainability
should be shaped, UCLG, along with the other networks of ...
By United Cities and Local Governments
Proposals > Territories and local governance Ver todos >
![Federated States and Regional Governments Committed to a New Paradigm for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication Federated States and Regional Governments Committed to a New Paradigm for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2787454868_eaa791afd0_bis-160x110.jpg)
July 07 2012
Federated States and Regional Governments
Committed to a New Paradigm for ...
The current economic development model is not sustainable in the
long-run neither in terms of poverty eradication objectives nor ...
By Regions United
![Sustaining and Maintaining Life on Earth Sustaining and Maintaining Life on Earth](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/5842952915_c3fed2f9b9_bis-160x110.jpg)
April 23 2012
Sustaining and Maintaining Life on Earth
The sustenance of the incredible variety of species and biodiversity
on planet Earth throughout millennia has been largely dependent ...
By Rights for Sustainability Initiative ◾ Stella Joy ◾ Tara Joy
![Territories: paradigm shifts that need to be made for the transition Territoire: les ruptures nécessaires pour la transition](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/india1_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 22 2012
Territories: paradigm shifts that need to be
made for the transition
Territories are objectively called to play a decisive role in
designing and conducting the necessary transition.
By Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress ◾ French Collective Rio+20 ◾ Pierre Calame
![What Brazil and What Amazonia Does the World Need? ¿Qué Brasil y qué Amazonia necesita el mundo?](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/amazonia1_bis-160x110.jpg)
December 02 2011
What Brazil and What Amazonia Does the World
Need?
Brazil is without a doubt a country of enormous possibilities – but
there can be no disguising the levels of social exclusion, the ...
By Cândido Grzybowski ◾ Forum for a New World Governance
Documents > Territories and local governance Ver todos >
![Local Sustainability: Taking Stock and Moving Forward Local Sustainability: Taking Stock and Moving Forward](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image_preview_bis-160x110.jpg)
August 05 2012
Local Sustainability: Taking Stock and Moving
Forward
Cities are cooperating internationally without borders, without
customs, without military forces.
By ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainibility
![Planning for the Rio+20 Conference: Enter the Commons? Planning for the Rio+20 Conference: Enter the Commons?](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_40_33_bis-160x110.jpg)
April 25 2012
Planning for the Rio+20 Conference: Enter the
Commons?
It is impossible to think of commoning without thinking about a
social subject, a “community.” It is therefore easiest to ...
By David Bollier
![From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan Order From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan Order](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/4304374413_5154dc4b9f_bis-160x110.jpg)
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
![Tracks and Sidetracks for Biocivilization Caminos y descaminos hacia una Biocivilización](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/4855913610_a9f673cdea_bis-160x110.jpg)
December 09 2011
Tracks and Sidetracks for Biocivilization
Thinking the basis of a new civilization and becoming part of the
long process of social dismantlement and of reconstruction ...
By Cândido Grzybowski
Eventos > Territories and local governance Ver todos >
February 15 2012
African Local Summit
The first “African Local Summit” will be held from April 1st - 4th,
2012 at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of ...
By African Local Summit
February 03 2012
Sustainable Mountain Development in the context
of Rio+20
The event aims to generate a dialogue for coercive action and
strategy to present an equivocal voice during Rio +20, and ...
By The Energy and Resources Institute
December 12 2011
Rio+20: spotlight on Sustainability
About 23 national organizations from the political, economic,
environmental and consumer protection sectors met in ...
By Rio+20 – Nachhaltig vor Ort