Thursday, March 29, 2007

lost jungle


lost jungle, originally uploaded by Tatiana Cardeal.

Is sustainable development an Oxymoron?

As part of the synoptic paper you may need to tackle a question on the environment. You will need to develop your understanding of the sustainable development debate and take your own position.

To further aid your reading use the following links:

Sustainable Development Commission - National scale

Bhopal disaster website - TNC influence

Rainforest Alliance - NGO scale

United Nations - multilateral scale

Context of globalisation

BBC News and other links

The Guardian - Climate change

Sustainable Development article - Common challenge

2 comments:

Katy said...

Wow!

This is really getting somewhere Paul!

And well done for being able to spell development! :P

Katy said...

Hey Paul,

Have found a really cool resource that you may be interested in using for Post-16 stuff, particularly Unit 6.

The following link is an article from the New Internationalist (they have the magazine in the Library)... and it is to do with the suggestion of 'A Green OPEC' (very relevant for the essay..):

http://interact.newint.org/blog/adam-maanit/a-green-opec

See what you think. Enjoy!