role. She asserted that along with ‘the possibility of the extinction of mankind by nuclear war’, the key problem was ‘the contamination of man’s total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm’. 27 Her starting point was that over the past twenty-five years, mankind had become a force of nature. Speaking about ‘man’s assaults upon the environment’, she added that a ‘universal contamination of the environment’ was occurring with disturbing rapidity. 28 ‘Future generations’, she wrote
city some 160 km south-west of Stockholm, with a population of about 140,000) and adopting the association’s first political programme. That happened at the annual meeting in early January when more than a hundred members gathered to socialize, go on excursions, make placards, and attain shared ‘doctrines and values’. The new programme announced that we humans were ‘obliged to preserve our limited natural environment for the sake of future generations’ and that the population explosion had ‘developed into a catastrophe
the World Heritage List (WHL 88, 1979). The outstanding and universal was salvaged. Monuments, buildings, and places that were not as spectacular disappeared into Lake Nasser, after having been examined and documented. Other remains could never be examined, however, and had to be denied priority. World Heritage, the outstanding and universal, is protected and preserved for future generations; but what happens to everything else? That the outstanding must be an exception cannot come as a surprise. But is World Heritage merely an alibi, so that the outside world can
keep the memory of this part of Namibian history alive for future generations’.47 In a memorandum addressed to the Namibian cabinet, Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako of the Ovaherero and Chief David Frederick 208 208 Human remains in society of the Nama conveyed their ‘great concern’ that the cabinet had already decided, without conducting proper consultations with the affected communities, that ‘once the skulls have arrived in Namibia, they are to be given a heroes’ burial at Heroes’ Acre’.48 In this light, the traditional chiefs’ memorandum to the government
generations, even though those generations do not yet exist to claim corresponding rights against us. By representing a post-productivist form of social democracy, ecowelfare treats the interests of future generations and the sustainability of distributive justice through time as being of central importance, in contrast to the short-term economic orthodoxy of the NSD. The details of the argument are delayed until Chapter 7, however, when we examine future generationalism in some depth. The fourth and final reason for suspecting that the NSD’s version of reciprocity is
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of World Heritage sites? World Heritage sites are defined as monuments, buildings, and places of outstanding universal value which require protection and preservation for future generations. World Heritage may be cultural heritage, natural heritage, or a combination of both. World Heritage therefore represents both an idea and something concrete that can be visited. In a world full of diversity and conflicts, where people are separated by gender, language, culture, history, religion, politics, and economics, the World Heritage List is an attempt at a common
a challenge to future generations. The process of post-war reconstruction –albeit before the war has officially ended – provided the Asad regime with a further opportunity to ensure his survival. Recognising the need to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), Urban Law Renewal 10 allows for the mass confiscation of refugee property, offering areas for potential redevelopment and valuable urban real estate.22 Although some frame it as ‘reconstruction legislation’, the political dimensions are easily seen. Legislation prevents people from returning to their
-way nature.’ This meant that we were stealing ‘from future generations – our own and, not least, those of developing countries’. This was a ‘bitter truth’ which political parties and interest groups found difficult to accept because their leaders had been shaped by the early postwar optimism about progress. The new perception of major problems conflicted with that optimism. The leaders therefore clung to an outdated worldview. Still, Fagerberg said that they did not do this out of ill will, but because of innocence and
ecological governance outcomes in terms of individual autonomy. Such governance creates new levels and new entities of governance, thus providing several new points of access for public participation in the policy process. It opens up new temporal dimensions, implying that the democratic process should take into consideration the interests of future generations not yet appearing on the political scene. By bringing in cultural traditions and local knowledge of man-nature relationships, widened participation challenges traditional methods of policy-making, where science and