Humanity at present uses three times the natural resources that our planet offers. Our present ecological footprint requires three planets not one. In addition, non-renewable resources are being used up at an increasing rate and are becoming scarcer from day to day (peak oil and soon peak everything). Totally unsustainable!

A reorientation of the goals of development towards achieving a better quality of life is mandatory, which implies  a lowering of production and consumption of material goods in the future at the global scale.

BUT……developing countries have a right to increase their standard of living, the danger being that they follow the development model of the industrialized countries which is becoming clearly unsustainable. What could development for these countries look like? Which strategies have to be designed and implemented in the industrial North to make for an equitable and sustainable global future?

The seminar aims to contribute to this discussion via a presentation of principles and an analysis of the challenges developing countries are facing .

Introduction: Doz.Dr. Thomas Nowotny, President, SID Vienna Chapter .

Moderated by: Mag. Ruth Picker, Managing Director  AG Globale Verantwortung .

Participants include: Dr. Friedrich Hinterberger (SERI), Rico de Faria (GOAL, SID) and Teresa Buckle (SID)

View the presentation of Dr. Friedrich Hinterberger here.

Time and place of event:

22 March 2010, at 5:30 p.m.

Austrian Institute for International Politics

Berggasse 7, 1090 Vienna

View the posterof the seminar here.

Registration: office@globaleverantwortung.at / sidvienna@aon.at /Telephone: 522 44 22 0

More info: please contact SID Vienna Chapter:  E-mail: sid.vienna@aon.at ,  http://sidvienna.org