Promoting sustainable development & Community well-being
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International
- 2016 World Ocean Day
- When will Paris Agreement come into force?
- Paris Agreement- some key decisions
- 2015/2016 El Nino should be near its peak
- 2015:Warmest year ever recorded on Earth
- Indian Ocean key to pause in global warming over last 15 years?
- Biodiversity for Sustainable Development -International Day
- Brief history of climate change
- Heavy loss of species due to climate change
- INDC of UNFFCC - Switzerland first to publish
- Safeguarding oceans beyond national boundaries for all
- Kiribati acquire land in Fiji for eventual climate refugees
- First Climate Refugees move from the coast in Fiji
- Summary Lima Climate Change Conference
- Lima agreement inches towards Paris Summit on Climate Change December 2015
- IPCC trends confirmed by 2014 findings, not considered in report
- IPCC Synthesis Report (AR5 - Nov. 2014)
- UN Conference on SIDS-Apia, Samoa, September 2014
- Post-2015 Development Agenda-UN High Level Panel Report
- Climate Change Capacity Development in Southern Africa
- Ocean science for sustainable development: Facts and figures
- UN Sustainable Development Goals?
topical articles
Mangrove - Protecting our coasts for posterity
Mangrove forest covered large swathe of the coastal strip of Mauritius. In 1773 Bernardin de St Pierre, the author of the famous Paul et Virginie novel set in Mauritius, observed mangrove near Poste La Fayette. In Mauritius, mangrove is often translated as ‘manglier’ rather than 'palétuvier' but botanically, manglier is different from coastal mangrove.
An eco-village approach to development
An eco-village is seen as a ‘human-scale full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that is supportive of healthy human development, and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future and incorporating multiple centres of initiatives’.
At a time when Mauritius is urbanising rapidly, how far is it practicable to adopt such an eco-village approach to sustainable development?
