“The conference underlines the need to act beyond immediate needs and concerns, and to take responsibility for those who will follow the current generations, and who will have less time to react to the world bequeathed to them”

The International Association for People-environment Studies (IAPS), currently presided by Dr Tony Craig, head of our Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences department, begins its conference today. The conference theme, “Running out of time: setting the pace for future generations”, stresses the urgency of progressing towards more sustainable societies, of changes to improve people’s quality of life, of reducing social and population inequalities, and of healing our planet. The conference also focuses on where and how to implement these changes.  

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute