Global Environmental Outlook - GEO4 (2007) project: Difference between revisions

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Website:	http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4.asp
Application type:	1. Global integrated assessment
Summary:	Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a consultative, participatory process that builds capacity for conducting integrated environmental assessments for reporting on the state, trends and outlooks of the environment.
Partner(s):	UNEP
Referred by:	Livestock systems

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 |Summary=Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a consultative, participatory process that builds capacity for conducting integrated environmental assessments for reporting on the state, trends and outlooks of the environment.
 |Partners=UNEP;
-|Description=GEO is a series of products that informs environmental decision-making and aims to facilitate the interaction between science and policy.
+|Description=The scenarios are described below:
+*The Markets First scenario envisages a world in which market-driven developments
+converge on the currently prevailing values and expectations in industrialized countries;
+*In a Policy First world, strong actions are undertaken by governments in an attempt to
+achieve specific social and environmental goals;
+*The Security First scenario assumes a world full of large disparities, where inequality and conflict, brought about by socio-economic and environmental stresses, prevail:
+*Sustainability First pictures a world in which a new development paradigm emerges in
+response to the challenge of sustainability supported by new, more equitable values and institutions.
 }}