Global Environmental Management: An Exploration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Author(s)
Steyn, Phia
Abstract
Treats John Jordi’s (1971) position on environmental crisis as a starting point to critique the world community’s failure to reach an effective means of environmental management. The perceived environmental crisis of three decades ago seems from a modern standpoint to be an almost idealized environmental situation because of the continual and uncontrolled recession of widespread and properly administrated environmental policy. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which convened Aug. 24 through Sept. 4, 2002, aimed to reassess both the human impact on the natural environment and the possible expansion of programs to ensure environmental sustainability.
