Master Public Policy and Human Development specialisation

Sustainable Development
November 11th, 2011 Ron Crvers

sustainable development

Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), Our Common Future,1987

development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

- concept of needs (world's poor) - principle of limitations (ecological)

 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, 1992 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Johannesburg, 2002 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio+20, 2012

European Union Sustainability Strategy

3 pillars & 2 dimensions (time & levels of scale)

 SD-issues are scientific not solvable what science can do, make it politically decidable

specialisation

Sustainable Development

(1) Knowledge Production for Sustainable Development knowledge production, knowledge integration; problem structuring; science-policy interface; different roles of scientists; conflict resolution

(2) Sustainability, Law and Economic Regulation regulatory approaches, including economic instruments; international environmental law / Trade Law; corporate social responsibility; steering governments, companies, citizens

(3) Sustainable Development in a Globalizing World globalization; relation Earth system and social systems; socio-economic developments; cultural perspective

(4) International Development Law

also last course of specialisation Globalisation, Trade and Development

sustainability professionals
have the competences to analyse and respond to sustainability challenges are able to operate at the interface of science, policy and society

Thank you for your attention! QUESTIONS?