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Rio Summit and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
1st international institutional response to scientific warnings and civil society calls
1st International Conference for the Protection of Nature
Part losses bottom half of the world
In the late 19th century, the East End of London was seen extremely ... Ex: Jack the Ripper was an ...active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888.
Growing compassion for the poor gradually seen as victims: ...Mixed views of poverty: moralizing middle-class discourse, moral flaws. But also the ... Unemployment instead of idleness. ... > basis for social reforms.
Awareness of striking social inequalities:B. Disraeli:...> Mixed views, public debate:Teach the poor to be ...? Public action?
The idea of the moral improvement of the poor prevailed at the beginning of the Victorian period, ... Most people inherited from earlier times the idea that poverty was the result of ...(not sufficiently ...), and it was difficult to remove that belief.
Because of the less-eligibility principle , the poor relied on self-reliance and ... (before resorting to the workhouse):- Family and friends- ... (early forms of mutual insurance)- ...: deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as ...
Many working-class people aimed to achieve a key concept of ...Meant ... within one’s social group, which one could achieve through proper ....Value associated mostly with the middle-class, but in fact, it was very influential among the working class
Hyde and Regent's Park were mostly used by the...
Ideas of social laissez faire and self-help even led to the passing of legislation:...
From the ...., this system of poor relief was beginning to be strongly criticized as very expensive for .... More and more money was given to able-bodied workers, to the ...because the industrial wages were very low and insufficient for survival.
However, self-help was also a necessity. Middle class advocates of self-help also promoted.... = the state shouldn't interfere to improve the life of the poor. > opposition to ...
In 1830s-1840s Victorians believed that one had the power to improve one's position in society through strict personal discipline, ... Therefore, social reform should start with ...
No sewerage systems through the ... of the 19th century. Slums were plagued by problems of ... > propagation of... that became endemic for several decades.Cholera appeared for the first time in Britain in ... (1848-1849, 1853-54, 1866-67) 1848-1849 – killed ... people....: another water-borne disease, prevalent in 1840s
To deal with criticism, new Poor Law was introduced in 1834 by the Poor Law Amendment Act. Measures to deter people from asking for help:1. Relief to be given inside workhouses - ...2. ...
The cost of poor relief became too expensive. It rose from about 600,000 pounds in 1750 to .... Steep increase due to the Speenhamland system.
History of poor laws: 1834 modification of the poor law which had existed since ...(Poor Law) which was based on the principle that anybody who was ... Poor relief was paid by the community through ... An early form of public welfare: public, systematic, indirect. However, it wasn't ..., it was restricted to the destitute (the elderly, the orphans, disabled people) This is called...
..., Self Help (...): S.S. addressed mostly ... and explained to them how one could rise in society through hard work, thrift. Against “over-guidance and over-government”. Public and government help made people ...and helpless. This kind of discourse was popular within the working class, as it gave them hope for improvement.