Geography Population - Agenda 21

Geography Population - Agenda 21

1. What is Agenda 21?

   • Agenda 21 is a United Nations (UN) sustainable development programme agreed at the various Earth summits. Governments are obliged o formulate national plans or straggles for sustainable development.
   • What does Agenda 21 specify?
     • Agenda 21 states that it is people, not governments, who engage in development, and therefore sustainable development is essentially a local activity.
       • Everyone, however poor or rich, has some ability to change what they do in a small or big way

2. Implementation of Agenda 21

   • Local authorities in many parts of the world are being to translate Agenda 21 into local action.
     • Suggested strategies by local authorities: (All of these strategies are applied to the local area)
       • Effectively monitoring air and water quality
       • Promoting energy efficiency
       • Establishing an effective recycling system
       • Introducing efficient forms of public transport
       • Placing population management at the heat of any activity
   • Just as global sustainability cannot exist without national sustainability polices, national Agenda 21 is incomplete without a local Agenda 21
   • Authorities in developing countries, such as most sub-Saharan African countries, can introduce local population management by:
     • Training community nurses to be responsible for all elements of care
       • Prenatal
       • Midwifery
       • Childcare
       • Inoculations and care for elderly people
       • Educating adolescents about AIDS and HIV
     • Increasing levels of female literacy, thereby raising aspirations and improving levels of prevention and care within families
   • Authorities in developed countries can:
     • Trying sufficient medical care workers to look after the rising numbers of elderly people, especially those too old or infirm to look after themselves.
       • This would reduce the need to recruit medical workers from oversea.
     • Recognise that birth rates are falling and consider the issue that may arise from having smaller numbers of children and eventually a reduced workforce