Sustainable Development in Western Anglophone Africa: Analysis of Millennium Development Goal 7's viability 'Ensuring environmental sustainability in

ISBN-13: 9783640843107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 204 str.

Erika Machacek

Opis

Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: Gut, University of applied sciences (IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems), course: International Law, language: English, comment: Many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa are dominated by extractive industries. With this background, the United Nations MDG 7 is of particular relevance in this region. West Africa, for instance, has extensive natural tropical forest resources which need to be managed sustainable not only to avoid the extinction of biodiversity and species, but also for their value with a view to all stakeholders., abstract: Sustainable development has been on the international agenda since the 1970s and there is general agreement that this topic is of international concern for the global community, also with a view to its interlinks with and affects on poverty. The demand for concrete objectives to tackle the many faces of poverty was met by the creation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are intended to be met by the year 2015 and are expected to lift a large number of people out of poverty. A total of eight goals and eighteen targets address challenges such as nutrition, education, health, gender equality, environmental sustainability and global partnerships. Continuous progress has been achieved so far in most of the world's regions except for Sub-Saharan Africa. Many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa are dominated by extractive industries. With this background, MDG 7, ensuring environmental sustainability, in particular Target 9, concerned with reversing the loss of natural resources, is of particular relevance in this region. West Africa, especially the former British colonies, has extensive natural tropical forest resources which need to be managed sustainably not only to prevent the extinction of biodiversity and species but also for their value to all stakeholders. Among the multiple challenges which MDG