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Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Jonathan M. Harris, Tufts University
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Chapter 20: Institutions for Sustainable Development

  1. Global Environment Facility: homepage for the Global Environmental Facility, a funding agency "established to forge international cooperation and finance actions to address four critical threats to the global environment: biodiversity loss, climate change, degradation of international waters, and ozone depletion." The site includes publications and a summary of projects that are funded by the GEF.
  2. Macroeconomics for Sustainability Programme: homepage for the World Wildlife Fund's Macroeconomics for Sustainability Programme, designed to "analyze the impact of macroeconomic practices, and to promote alternative approaches that integrate environmental and social concerns into macroeconomic planning and application." The site includes publications and case studies.
  3. United Nation's Environment Programme: the United Nation's website for Agenda 21, a "roadmap" for sustainable development drafted during the 1992 Earth Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Agenda 21 "addresses the pressing problems of today and also aims at preparing the world for the challenges of the next century."


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