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Agenda 21 was launched at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3–14 June 1992) as a “comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally, and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment” (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs [UN DESA] 2009). Agenda 21 has been updated at major follow-up conferences, in particular at the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Rio + 10”) and the 2012 Rio de Janeiro United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio + 20,” “Earth Summit 2012”). It serves also as blueprint for numerous Local Agenda 21 (“LA21”) initiatives, of which many are organized in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI, founded 1990).
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Agenda 21 is divided in four sections (Social and Economic Dimensions, Conservation...
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Jesinghaus, J. (2014). Agenda 21. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_52
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