Global Development

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Environment top down approaches
international treaties to air pollution, potential to enact wide-ranging impacts, a more subtle top down initiative is Emissions Trading. Aims to reduce externalities and create incentives to adopt more practise.
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bottom up approaches of the environment
some theories more effective, less bureaucratic, environmental protection encourages people to become custodians of their own local habitats, fairtrade preserves biodiversity on farmland, agribusiness small farmers are well equipped.
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Evaluation of bottom up approaches
Advantage: preserves habitats Disadvantage : doesn't address big issues like global warming as they are too small scaled.
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Environmental management
organisations turned their attention to developing strategies to address environmental challenges, top down - transnational levels creating legislation to prevent environmental damage. Bottom up strategies - focus on communities
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origins of environmental damage
western lifestyle driven by ever greater lifestyle. TNCS are environmentally toxic as their object is to create profit for their stakeholders, creating externalities and environmental problems.
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Development + environment
development causes environmental damage. Rich world has no rights to deny benefit to the poor.
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The environment
natural landscape all shaped by people. for most of history this was not seen as a problem but as inevitable and necessary to survive people used what was around them (Woodhouse, 2000)
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environmental issues for MEDCS
global warming, deforestation, conservation of habitats for endangered species.
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environmental issues for LEDCs
effects of TNCS,unfair/uneven trade, demands of western consumerism
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why would pressure from TNCs encourage the poor to weaken environmental controls?
to attract them they will have less stringent controls on pollution
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how did USA use environment for it's economic interests.
if there is economic gain then they wont sign up to environmental agreements like the Kyoto Protocol to reduce global warming by reducing carbon emissions.
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how does MEDC interest in recycling affect LEDCS
negative impact on LEDCS as poorer coutnries are dependent on natural resources therefore the need for these are reduced.
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bottom up approaches of the environment

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some theories more effective, less bureaucratic, environmental protection encourages people to become custodians of their own local habitats, fairtrade preserves biodiversity on farmland, agribusiness small farmers are well equipped.

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Evaluation of bottom up approaches

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