United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Summit, Earth Summit (or, in Portuguese, Eco '92) was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.

Resources

• John McCormick, Reclaiming Paradise: The Global Environmental Movement (1991, Indiana University Press).
• David Pepper, Modern Environmentalism: An Introduction (Routledge, 1996).
• Timothy Doyle, “Sustainable development and Agenda 21: the secular bible of global free markets and pluralist democracy,” Third World Quarterly, 19 (4), 1998.

Resources and articles

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