György Kemenes
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in these fringe areas don’t even have clean drinking water. “The mismanagement of the urban fringe is becoming an increasing threat to the health and wellbeing of both urban and peri-urban citizens. But opportunities for a more positive relationship between the city and its periphery do exist and should be urgently addressed at Rio+20 and beyond,” Marshall and Mehta conclude. Fred Pearce, author of the recently published book The Landgrabbers, pointed to another “glaring hole” in the Rio+20 agenda: land rights. Pearce observes that “unprecedented corporate privatisation and enclosure of the world’s common lands — its pastures, fields and forests — is being done in the name of development”. However, he objects that “much of it will destroy development and impoverish the poorest”. There is certainly no shortage of problems to be discussed at Rio, but the question is whether the meeting can come up with constructive answers and solutions that will be implemented in the real world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as successors to the Millennium Development Goals may be one palpable outcome of it. And then there is the small question of who will show up for the meeting. Newly elected presidents François Hollande and Vladimir Putin have confirmed their participation, while David Cameron and Angela Merkel are going to stay away. At the time of going to press it appeared unlikely that US president Obama will find the time to fly to Rio after the G20 meeting in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He may be too busy campaigning for the upcoming election. And the fact that attending Rio and helping to create a better future for the whole world wouldn’t help Obama win favours with the undecided voters back home is in itself a clue to where we may find the stumbling blocks on the path to sustainable development.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012