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Development, Sustainability and Environment

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Do your actions cause starvation?
What is the future for the developing world?
What sort of development is sustainable?


presents a day of discussion on

Development, Sustainability and Environment

Saturday 27th September
Newcastle upon Tyne Civic Centre

Convened by Caspar Hewett, Dave O'Toole, Jon Bryan and Mo Lovatt

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Timetable

10:00 Registration and coffee
10:15 Introduction
10:30 Environmental Ideas in the 21st Century
12:00 Lunch (provided)
13:00 Sustainability Here and Now
14:15 tea and coffee
14:30 What Future for the Developing World?
16:00 Close


Event Sponsored by

Peer Review for European Sustainable Urban Development


Development, Sustainability and Environment - Sessions

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Session 1: Environmental Ideas in the 21st Century

Chair:

Dave O'Toole, The Great Debate

Speakers:
Derek Bell, Leverhulme Research Fellow in Politics, University of Newcastle
Joe Kaplinsky, Technology Analyst
Mary Mellor, author The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability
and Economic Democracy
, Feminism and Ecology.

Environmental ideas are taught in schools, discussed in the House of Commons and debated at world summits, but what does it mean to be an environmentalist today? This session will look at the impact of the environmental movement, what is behind the mainstreaming of environmental ideas and what consequences this has for the future.


Session 2: Sustainability Here and Now

Chair: Viv Regan
, Assistant Director, WORLDwrite

Speakers:
Allen Creedy, Project Director, PRESUD, Directorate of Enterprise,
Environment & Culture, Newcastle City Council
James Heartfield, editor Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age,
author The 'Death of the Subject' Explained,

Over the last decade work has been undertaken at international, national and local levels to advance sustainable urban development. The final session of the day will be a discussion about the benefits or otherwise of the sustainability paradigm in the context of the developed world. Contrasting views of sustainability will be offered by prominent speakers on this important issue.


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Session 3: What Future for the Developing World?

Chair:
Mo Lovatt, The Great Debate

Speakers:
Ceri Dingle, Director, WORLDwrite
Geoff Parkin, Lecturer in Sustainable Hydrology, Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory (WRSRL), currently working on Middle East water resources projects
Jan Simmonds, Christian Aid North East

The term sustainable development is defined as 'development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' [Brundtland Report]. Where does this leave present generations? What can the developing world realistically aspire to?

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Development, Sustainability and Environment - Outline

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In the last twenty years environmental thinking has become very much a part of our every day lives. The term 'sustainable development' has entered the mainstream and is used to guide policy in both the developed and developing world. Yet whilst we in the West enjoy a safe, clean, pleasant environment coupled with high living standards the developing world is being discouraged from aspiring to anything more than basic needs. So what is sustainable development and what are its consequences? What is current in environmental thought?

This one day conference will re-evaluate the relevance of environmentalism in the 21st century, examine the intimate links between the concepts of development, sustainability and environmentalism and ask if development to western standards is possible for the developing world.

Come along, hear the arguments and have your say.

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Relevant Articles on this site

Participation and Representation David Large reviews Sustainability Here and Now

Reflections on Policy in Republic of South Africa Outline of talk given by Caspar Hewett at the WORLDwrite event Raising Horizons to Raise Water on Saturday 7th June 2003

The New Moral Code - Environmentalism in the 21st Century by David O'Toole.

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Relevant Links

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Where there's the will, there's water by Ceri Dingle and Esme Young
Putting nature before people by Joe Kaplinsky
Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory (WRSRL)

Peer Review for European Sustainable Urban Development

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Buy these books
The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability and Economic Democracy Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age The 'Death of the Subject' Explained Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle The Skeptical Environmentalist
Our Common Future Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World  An Introduction to Sustainable Development Why the West Has Won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam

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