lgeography and sdgs in action地理与可持续发展目标在行动.pdfVIP

Where we left off previously

• Geography matters because it is an integrating discipline that

allows us to connect otherwise seemingly unrelated

phenomena

• Geography matters because of its skills, methods and focus

on the present and future

• The relevance of geography and its potential relationship with

has been an ongoing debate within the academy for

over forty years

• New awareness of the potential of geography to contribute to

addressing a range of complex societal and scientific

challenges including the Sustainable Development Goals

Class agenda

• Sustainable Development

• Re-thinking progress: The circular economy

• Putting the goals into action: Case study discussion

• Key dates

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An alternative development path?

Sustainable development: Our Common Future, also

known as the Brundtland Report:

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of

the present without compromising the ability of future

generations to meet their own needs”.

Key concepts:

• Needs, in particular the essential needs of the worlds

poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and

• Idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology

and social organization on the environments ability to

meet present and fu