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The Hague Conference on
Environment, Security and Sustainable Development

The Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands
9 - 12 May 2004

Background Material

In addition to the main conference working papers, participants were invited to submit other background documents for publication on this website.

Continue to visit this site for additional background papers as they become available. All documents are in PDF format.

  1. Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy
    Wackernagel et al
    Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2002
  2. The Sustainable City and Climate Change
    Scott Spence
    The Hague Researcher for the Harvard Sussex Program on CBW Arms and Armament Limitation
  3. University for Peace Programme On Environmental Security and Peace
    University for Peace
  4. Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES): Establishing a GMES capacity by 2008
    Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
    GMES Website
  5. The Geopolitics of Climate Change
    Tom Burke & John Ashton
    Cofounders of E3G: Third Generation Environmentalism
  6. Europe's Mars Mission - Get used to it: Europeans and Americans are both from Earth
    John Ashton
    Cofounder and CEO of E3G: Third Generation Environmentalism
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