• Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs to access their list of Sustainable Development topics. Sustainable development topics.

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• Strategy

United Nations Conference. The Mauritius Strategy - for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States:

Climate change and sea-level rise

Natural and environmental disasters

Management of wastes

Coastal and marine resources

Freshwater resources

Land resources

Energy resources

Tourism resources

Biodiversity resources

Transportation and communication

Science and technology

Graduation from least developed country status

Trade: globalization and trade liberalization

Sustainable capacity development and education for sustainable development

Sustainable production and consumption

National and regional enabling environments

Health

Knowledge management and information for decision-making

Culture

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• In the Caribbean some of the factors which impact "sustainable" development include:-

Climate Change

http://www.uwi.edu/ISD/climatechange.aspx

Corruption

 See anti-corruption reference links,  Office of the Contractor-General, Jamaica

Creative Industries

Crime and Violence

 The Violence Prevention Alliance, Jamaica, is housed at the Institute for Sustainable Development.

Debt

Disasters

University of the West Indies Disaster Risk Reduction Centre

Energy

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD):  Energy & Climate

Environmental Mangement

•  UWI graduate programmes in Natural Resource and Environmental Management.
•  Visit CARICOM's site to view "The CARICOM Environment in Figures 2004."

Mosquito-borne diseases e.g. Dengue Fever

• Several articles at "Special issue on health and climate change."  Tiempo, Issue 71 Apr. 2009. London: International Institute for Environment and Development., <http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/portal/archive/pdf/tiempo71low.pdf>.

• UNEP video, "The Gathering Storm, Chapter 4: Highland Malaria"

Unemployment

Visit CARICOM's site to view employment statistics e.g."Trends in Labour Force Statistics" a PowerPoint presentation for Caribbean Statistics Day Celebrations, 15th October, 2009.

Water

UNDP's Human Development Report 2006, Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis