Notions of sustainable development. Concepts, key words initials and neologisms, very for understanding the texts founders well

Notions of sustainable development 1

Sustainable development is rather complex and not badly bulky. The texts of references swarm with scientific terms, of references to events and organizations, neologisms sometimes even. For better clearing of undergrowth and thus better to understand, hereafter some definitions of concepts and words key. First series of Agenda 21 to .

Agenda 21: Action plan adopted at the time of the Summit of RIO in 1992. Agenda 21, Share 21 in French, fixes the action plan in order to direct progress in the direction of sustainable development. The program and the lines of action are available on the site of the French United Nations: Agenda 21

(Report): , of Norway, are at the origin of the creation of the Worldwide Commission on the Environment and the Development. This Commission is especially known by his ratio of 1997, “ Future”, or report at the origin of the concept of Sustainable development. (see definition)
label: The or “” is a European ecological label allotted to a product or an actor, granted by a certifying organization, guaranteeing to the consumer whom the product that it chooses adheres to of the environmental criteria.
Ecosystem: Basic ecological unity formed by the medium (biotope) and the organisms animal, vegetable and bacterial which live there (the Petit Robert)
The network of interdependences consisted the elements of the ecosystem ensures the development of the life.

FAO: Agriculture off Nations, Organization of the Nations Linked for the Fuel supply and agriculture. Created in 1945 FAO is an intergovernmental Organization. It gathers nearly 180 States. FAO has the role of combatting the hunger and the poverty. It works for the agricultural development, the forests and the fisheries, international standardization out of food matter for a nutritional improvement and a greater food safety.