Re: [gep-ed] Explaining the Rio+20 Outcomes

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Hi Geoff. Good idea. Here's a little something I wrote for Triple Crisis Blog: http://triplecrisis.com/spotlight-rio20-a-hard-slog-towards-sustainability/ Lyuba -----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith Sent: Jun 27, 2012 8:27 AM To: mmani...@allegheny.edu, gep-ed@googlegroups.com Subject: [gep-ed] Explaining the Rio+20 Outcomes Let me suggest there would be value in our trying to keep a log of post-Rio+20 analyses or assessments, such as the one by CAP, posted to gep-ed earlier today by Michael Maniates.    In England, while Rio+20 was in progress, I noted a very negative press for the conference, uniformly across those British newspapers that bothered to report on Rio+20 at all.  And in three very recent online reports or post-mortems I happen to have encountered, one posted to gep-ed by Pam Chasek, yesterday, another contributed to the Migratory Wildlife Network Digest by Margi Prideaux (with more to come), and a press summary from Infosylva, there is essentially no good news.   What happened and what, if anything, went wrong?  Where might one turn for some understanding of what the Rio+20 outcomes mean?   Here’s the (incomplete) list I have at this point:   Chasek/IISD  http://www.iisd.ca/uncsd/rio20/enb/   Prideaux/MWN  http://wildmigration.org/newsletter.php?newsletter_select=29   Infosylva  http://www.fao.org/forestry/33165-092ea9bc725a616b7d7d792239690cb3b.pdf   James et al./CAP  http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/06/rio_text.html I hope others will log additional items to the list as time goes by. Geoffrey. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith Emeritus Professor of Political Science University of California, Davis. Associate Editor, JIWLP. Lyuba Zarsky Associate Professor Graduate School of International Policy and Management Monterey Institute of International Studies http://www.miis.edu/ Local: 608 San Miguel Ave, Berkeley CA 94707 USA Cell: +510 495 4598 lzar...@earthlink.net