International Relations - POSC 292 Resource Guide

Sustainable development: formally it is ‘development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. This should make us think about how we currently use our natural resources at the future expense of our children.

A title of an academic journal, a catch-all category for international violence, an orphaned sub-field of late imperial geography resurrected in neo-imperial America and, simultaneously, the focus of diverse forms of demythologization and debunking by scholars of critical human geography, this is a term that defies easy definition.

Greenpeace is a citizen’s action organization founded in 1971 in British Columbia, Canada in order to oppose underground nuclear bomb testing in Alaska. Since that time it has grown into an international organization with headquarters in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark as well as Canada.

The Sierra Club is a non-governmental organization based on voluntary membership and dedicated to preserving natural areas in the USA and educating the public regarding the value of those areas. It was founded by John Muir, who spent much of his adult life exploring the Sierra Nevada Range of mountains in California and convincing the public and government officials to preserve as much of it as possible.

This Environmental Protection Agency site provides extensive information on the problem of global warming. It discusses how greenhouse gas causes global warming, affects the climate and impacts many other things such as health, agriculture

Greenpeace is an international organization that prioritizes global environmental campaigns.

These three purposes, recreational, educational, and conservationist, constituted the Club's motives, means, and final object.

To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.