Earth Charter principles

Students also watch four documentaries on the most complex problems of sustainable development (also completed after class). During their group exercises, and also as an individual assignment, students work on finding solutions to the problems raised in these films and present them to their professor. All students have to prepare and present three papers and one thesis on sustainable development issues. Out of the three mandatory papers, one must be written on the Earth Charter principles and their importance for sustainable development processes. 

Definition Dumreicher, Heidi, Richard S. Levine, and Ernest J. YanareUa. ( Oikodrom The Institute for Urban Sustainability, Vienna, Austria and Center for Sustainable Cities, Lexington, KY), 1998-2001. This definition summarizes part of the Center for Sustainable Cities contribution to the European Charter of Cities and Towns Towards Sustainability (1994). This document, more commonly known as the Aalborg Charter, has become the principle vehicle in Europe for the implementation of the Local Agenda 21 provisions of the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992 and has subsequently been ratified by over 1000 European cities. 

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