Sustainable Development By the year 2200 there will be a lot more people living on this planet then there are now. Estimates range anywhere from 15 to 36 billion people. Where will these people live? How will they live? The answer is sustainable development. Sustainable development‚ "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. " It also‚ "requires meeting the basic needs of all peoples and extending to them the opportunity
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EAST WEST UNIVERSITY GEN 203 IMPROVEMENT ASSIGNMENT “SUSTAINABLE ENERGY” Course No : GEN 203 Section No : 03 Student’s Name : MD.ASIF HOSSAIN
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Introduction Sustainable Tourism can be best described as tourism that considers its economic (future and current)‚ environmental and social impacts‚ coveting to the needs of the host communities‚ environment and visitors‚ that are defined as sustainable tourism (UNWTO‚ 2005) and the protection‚ enhancement of the natural‚ social and cultural resources in which tourism depend on‚ is one of the fundamental principle of all sustainable tourism development polices (Sharpley‚R 2000‚ pp.12). To
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF NORTH EAST AND LADAKH ABSTRACT Tourism acts as a backbone for majority of nations especially the growing economies while the adverse impacts of tourism on the environment and the sociocultural are not ignorable. The tourism sector‚ if driven well in the right direction‚ can play a holistic process of economic‚ social and environmental sustenance as well as development. Sustainable form of tourism not only ensures the profitable income but also
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM ~ ELIMINATING POVERTY (ST~EP) INTRODUCTION : At the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg‚ South Africa in August 2002‚ the World Tourism Organization (WTO)‚ supported by UNCTAD‚ took a global lead in this field‚ launching the concept of ‘Sustainable Tourism as an effective tool for Eliminating Poverty’ (ST~EP)‚ and beginning the process of putting a program in place to implement the concept. This initiative linked the longstanding WTO pursuit of Sustainable
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“...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence‚ empathy‚ equity‚ personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed.” Jonathon Porritt Globalization and sustainability are forces that are in constant competition. In this global game there emerges a clear victor and an inevitable loss. As a political‚ social‚ and economic force‚ globalization has expanded to encompass
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responsible holidays. These include various forms of alternative or sustainable tourism such as: ’nature-based tourism’‚ ’ecotourism’ and ’cultural tourism’. Sustainable tourism is becoming so popular that some say that what we presently call ’alternative’ will be the ’mainstream’ in a decade. All tourism activities of whatever motivation - holidays‚ business travel‚ conferences‚ adventure travel and ecotourism - need to be sustainable. Sustainable tourism is defined as "tourism that respects both local people
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters it’s Affect on the Labor and Civil Rights Movement The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a labor union organized by African American employees of the Pullman Company in August 1925 and led by A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster. This paper will discuss the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) founders‚ the issues that caused its fight for organization and recognition‚ the Pullman Company‚ the American Federation of Labor and
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Introduction to Agenda 21 v The Earth Summit held in Rio De Janerio‚ Brazil was attended by 178 country leaders (including Malaysia) on June 1992. The Earth Summit provides world’s action plan towards sustainable development. This action plan was known as Agenda 21 - an agenda to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century. Agenda 21 is designed as a bridge v between environment and development v between the public and private sectors v between governments and civil society v between
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0960-0035.htm IJPDLM 38‚5 A framework of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory Craig R. Carter and Dale S. Rogers University of Nevada‚ College of Business Administration‚ Reno‚ Nevada‚ USA Abstract Purpose – The authors perform a large-scale literature review and use conceptual theory building to introduce the concept of sustainability to the field of supply chain management
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