Sustainable and Unsustainable development Sustainable Development Concept Sustainable development is a pattern of social and structured economic transformations (i.e. development) which optimizes the economic and societal benefits available in the present‚ without jeopardizing the likely potential for similar benefits in the future. A primary goal of sustainable development is to achieve a reasonable and equitably distributed level of economic well-being that can be perpetuated continually for
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What is democracy? And most importantly is the United States and California Democratic? One of the first societies that exercised democracy was Athens. The Athenian people were democratic and valued political affairs. Thought out 594 B.C.E to 338 B.C.E democracy in Athens flourished. To the Greeks‚ democracy meant that the people ruled (L). Now we define democracy as popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is when the people are the ultimate source of authority and the government does their bidding
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The Benefits of Democracy Democracy benefits the individual citizen the most. There are many characteristics of democracy however Freedom of speech‚ Equality before the law‚ and freedom of the press are the most beneficial elements. Without these rights and freedoms a democratic country might as well be called an authoritarian country. To some citizen’s eyes the freedom of press may not seem as important .The freedom of press allows an individual citizen to get the freedom of expressing
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Response: Democracy Now Amy Goodman is an intelligent and well traveled woman with knowledge of a lot of issues around the world. She has a television broadcast show called Democracy Now. Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now‚ which is a national‚ daily‚ independent‚ award-winning news program airing on over 1‚100 public television and radio stations worldwide. Her program has spread to about 70 cities in the United States today. Democracy Now’s War and Peace Report provides
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Sustainable tourism “Development of sustainable tourism in Scotland” [pic] Main questions: 1. What is sustainable tourism? 2. Characteristics of sustainable tourism: - Economic - Social equity - Environmental and cultural protection 3. Introducing Scotland…(short description) - Country sides - Tourism - Tourists - Historical heritages - Places and destinations in Scotland
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Congo which allows to feed other African countries in electricity All these companies met problems with the bad image they spread before. They got a bad reputation and they lose profits because of that. They needed to engage their company to the sustainable development and Corporate Social Responsibility. PepsiCo and World Bank have based their strategies in a socio-environmental tendency. PepsiCo has created new healthy products in order to have communities accessing to natural resources such as
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On the Change in Democracy and its Evaluation and Analysis The word “democracy” comes from the Greek words demos‚ meaning “the people‚” and kratia‚ meaning “rule.” The word democracy then translates as “the people rule.” However‚ throughout history‚ the idea of democracy has changed. An analysis of the change in the idea of democracy after 1814 reveals that: campaigning and ambition stopped being horrific words‚ property ownership ceased to be a requirement for voting‚ and equality got a new meaning
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Education for Sustainable development – strategies for School Improvement Investigation of strategies for education for sustainable development and School improvement. 1. Introduction a. Rationale The Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) would like all schools to be sustainable by 2020 and to prepare students for a lifetime of sustainable living through its teaching‚ its fabric and its day to day activities. It is guided by a commitment to care for oneself‚ for each other
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“Picturing a sustainable Society” of Lester R. Brown is talked about the problem of our today world and give some possible ways to change in the future which is called “new version of the future”. So he proves how present societies are not sustainable with the definition of sustainable society and some fact information of today world in an example about the fossil fuel and climate change. In addition‚ he also gives the efforts to understand sustainable leads to problems and from those problems‚ he
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government and military? You may know that the Greeks had the first democracy. You also may know about the Spartans and how powerful their army was‚ but that is not all. The ancient Greek government and military was a lot more than that‚ and this document can teach you more. The Greek government was different from our present government and so was their military. The ancient Greek democracy was very different from the US’s democracy. Athens is the best-documented and most studied polis in ancient
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