Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development

http://www.iisd.org/youth/ysbk000.htm

The Youth Sourcebook was written by an international working group to:

• increase their own awareness of sustainable development issues
• strengthen global youth cooperation and networks
• contribute to the implementation of Agenda 21, the global plan of action agreed to at the Earth Summit.

The Youth Sourcebook contains information on youth's concerns with sustainable development issues, case studies of youth action, together with advice on how to organize for action, useful resource lists, and finally aDirectory of international and regional youth organizations. [Please note that we are unable at present to reproduce in full all the tables and inset quotations which appear in the print version of the Youth Sourcebook.]

• Acknowledgments
• History of the project
• Aims of the Youth Sourcebook
• References

• SECTION 1: ISSUES FROM A YOUTH PERSPECTIVE
  • Introduction
  • Sustainable Development
    • Introduction
    • Where does the term Sustainable Development come from?
    • What is UNCED?
    • What were the results of UNCED?
    • Agenda 21: Chapter 25. Children and Youth in Sustainable Development
    • Combatting Poverty
    • What are the NGO Treaties?
    • Youth Treaty: Preamble
      • Commitments
      • Action
      • Mechanisms
    • A Youth Earth Charter
    • Peace and Sustainable Development
    • Education and Sustainable Development
    • Embrace the World
  • HUMAN RIGHTS and sustainable development
    • What are human rights?
    • United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
    • Human Rights and Youth in Latin America
    • Human Rights in the Asia Pacific Region
      • Definition
    • Environment and Disability
    • Environmental Justice
    • The Struggle for Environmental Justice in New York
    • Indigenous Peoples
    • Coming Home
    • Latin America, 500 Years After: New Forms of Extermination and Domination
    • Women, young women, and human rights
      • Everything is interrelated
      • Recognizing women's rights
      • Violence against women: a human rights violation
      • Moving Forward
    • Apartheid and its environmental legacy
  • WOMEN: Women and sustainable development
    • Education
    • The Workforce
    • Consumerism
    • Population and Health
    • Violence
    • Women in leadership?
    • Women's Healthy Planet Report Cards
    • World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet
      • Global Equity
      • Natural Resources
      • Sustainable Development
      • Human Rights
      • Women
      • International Documents Dealing with the Rights of Women
    • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
    • Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women
      • Sexual equality
      • Women's autonomy and power
      • Recognition of women's unpaid work
      • Advances in women's paid work
    • IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Their Effects on Women
  • NATURAL RESOURCES
    • Protection of Natural Resources
    • Forests
    • Tropical Deforestation
    • Deforesting for the hamburger habit
    • Genetic Resources
    • Forests and Indigenous People
    • Maintaining Biodiversity
      • Nationally and Internationally Designated Protected Areas
      • Diversity and Current Status of Animal Species
    • Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Indigenous Peoples
      • Can't modern technology fix this mess?
      • What causes this loss of forests and their biodiversity?
      • Will the loss of forests and biodiversity affect mainly indigenous peoples?
      • How do the northern and southern views of biodiversity differ?
    • Political Transformation
    • Debt and Environment
    • Agenda 21, Chapter 11.1: On forests
• SECTION 2: YOUTH WORKING AND ORGANIZING FOR ACTION
  • YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
    • Youth - What are we?
    • Global Politics
      • Decolonization?
      • The Cold War
      • Politics at UNCED
      • TNCs and the Global Governance
      • Conclusion
    • Youth Participation in the UNCED process
      • UNCED Preparatory Processes
      • The Official UNCED Preparatory Process
      • The NGO Parallel Process
        • Latin America
        • Africa
        • Asia
        • Europe
        • North America
      • A SEED International Youth Campaign
      • International Youth Consultation on Environment and Development
        • Youth Participation in the Earth Summit
        • The Earth Summit, Rio Centro
        • The NGOs' Parallel Event, The Global Forum '92
        • The Post-UNCED Era: Where do we go from Here?
      • On International Activism
  • ORGANIZING STRATEGIES
    • Capacity Building
    • Resources
    • Research
    • Organizational Structures, Techniques, and Tools
    • Working Together
      • Networking
      • Partnerships
      • Coalition Building
    • Campaigning
    • Communicating to the Outside World
    • Popular Education
    • Consensus
  • CASE STUDIES
    • Mixe Community Institute
    • ENJEU and a Network of Francophone Youth Environment and Development Organizations
    • AIESEC's Participation in the Earth Summit and Sustainable Development Initiatives
    • ASA: Organizing in the Asia-Pacific Region
    • We Create Our Future: Youth Camps in South Africa
    • AIESEC: International Traineeship Exchange Program
  • ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION
    • How to get started
    • Networking through email
    • Making contact with networks
    • Contacts and resources
    • What you can find on the Internet
  • RESOURCE MATERIALS
    • Sustainable Development
    • Eco-Activism
    • Human Rights
    • Indigenous Peoples
    • Education and Culture
    • Media
    • Peace and Disarmament
    • Women
    • Health
    • Population
    • Poverty
    • Natural Resources
    • Audio-Visual Materials
    • Organizing Strategies
    • Periodicals

• SECTION 3: DIRECTORY OF ORGANIZATIONS
  • About the Directory
  • Youth Organizations
    
    • Africa
    • Caribbean
    • Latin America
    • North America
    • Pacific Islands, Aotearoa, and Australia
    • Asia
    • Europe
    • International Youth Organizations
  • Non-Youth International Organizations
  • Women's Organizations
  • Indigenous Peoples' Organizations
  • Human Rights
  • Other Organizations
  • Publishers
  • International Development Agencies
  • UN, International Bodies
  • Foundations

NOTE: The Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development was a project initiated by the IISD in support of the Youth movement at the Earth Summit in Rio in June 1992. International Youth organizations have written in the Sourcebook about their beliefs and concerns for a more sustainable world.
Many of the authors published in this Sourcebook wrote in their second or third language: where possible, this Sourcebook has left their words unedited so that you may hear their voices clearly.
The pages in the Sourcebook reflect the opinions of Youth who participated in this project and do not necessarily reflect the views of all youth or of the publisher.
IISD believes that Youth have an independent voice which should be heard at the tables of decision-makers around the world.

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This publication may be cited as Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development. Winnipeg: IISD, 1995. Online. Internet. http://iisd.ca/youth/ysbk000.htm. Sections of the Youth Sourcebook online may be cited by the file number, which is identified at the end of the section.
The print version can be ordered from IISD, for $15.00 Cdn.
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