January 19

Outline - January 19

Historical Landmarks

I.    Types of Historical Landmarks

•     Ideas/Theories

•     Environmental Events/Developments

•     Scientific Projects/Reports

•     Laws and Institutions

II.    The Environments as an International Issue

•     Pre-Stockholm Era (prior to 1968)

•     Stockholm Era (1968 to 1987)

•     Rio de Janeiro Era (1987 to present)

III.    Pre-Stockholm Era (prior to 1967)

•     Attention to specific environmental problems, such as:

  •     Migratory Species

  •     Oil Pollution

  •     Nuclear Pollution

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•     International Geophysical Year (1957-58)

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•     Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962)

IV.    Stockholm Era (1968-1987)

•     Torrey Canyon Disaster (1968)

•      The Population Bomb (book by Paul Ehrlich)  (1969)

•     First Earth Day (1970)

•     Limits to Growth  (Report to the Club of Rome)  (1971)

•     United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)

•     World Energy and Food Crisis (1972-75)

•     United Nations Environment Program Created (1973)

•     Other Major World Conferences

•     Law of the Sea adopted (1982)

•     Chernobyl disaster (1986)

V.    Rio de Janeiro Era (1987 to present)

•     Rise of the "global change" agenda

•     Montreal Protocol (1987)

•     Brundtland Commission report, Our Common Future (1987)

•     First report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  (1990)

•     World Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992)

                      Agenda 21 (Program of Action)

                      Framework Convention on Climate Change

                      Convention on Biological Diversity

•     World Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994)

•     Kyoto Protocol (1997)

•     World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002)