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The conference showed that environmental history is a viable and lively field in Europe and since then ESEH has expanded to over 400 members and continues to grow and attracted international conferences in 2003 and 2005. In 1999 the Centre for Environmental History was established at the University of
The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) is a professional society for the field of environmental history.The ASEH was founded in 1977 and its mission is to increase understanding of current environmental issues by analyzing their historical background.
The Environmental history of the United States covers the history of the environment over the ... This Conference was a seminal event in the history of ...
1972 — The Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm, Sweden 5 to 16 June, the first of a series of world environmental conferences. — United Nations Environment Programme founded as a result of the Stockholm conference.
Environmental mega conferences differ from small environmental and sustainability conferences in fundamental ways. Rather than focusing on specific regional problems such as acid rain or ‘sectoral’ problems such as human health or food, they try to take a synoptic overview of the relationship between human society and the natural world. [ 1 ]
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden, during June 5–16, 1972.. When the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene the 1972 Stockholm Conference, taking up the offer of the Government of Sweden to host it, [1] UN Secretary-General U Thant invited Maurice Strong to lead it as Secretary-General of the Conference, as the Canadian diplomat ...
The First Earth Summit, also known as the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE), also known as the Stockholm Conference was the first global conference to address environmental issues. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5–16, 1972.
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio 2012, Rio+20 (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁi.u ˈmajʒ ˈvĩtʃi]), or Earth Summit 2012 was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals of the global community.