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Understanding sustainable development

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The main objective of this section is to provide the basic foundations needed to understand the environment, its preservation, and, more generally, sustainable development. It is the theoretical complement to the real examples given in section “Learn about the initiatives”.

  • Terrestrial balance
    • Biodiversity
    • Thermal balance of the planet
    • The major symbols of planetary balance
  • The human footprint
    • Agriculture, farming, fishing and industry
    • Urbanisation and transportation
    • The exploitation of natural resources
    • Mass consumption
  • A disturbed world
    • The impact on mankind
    • Biodiversity threatened
    • Disruption of the climate machine
    • The depletion of resources and of our system
  • Towards a new equilibrium
    • Introduction to sustainable development
    • Understanding and controlling its impact
    • Rethinking business activities
    • Reconsidering the way we live
    • Political, economic and social balance

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