After three decades since the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and at the doorsteps of the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, its seems appropriate to assess the path followed particularly since the Rio conference of 1992. For this purpose, it is analyzed the economic, social and institutional evolution of the region during the past decade, followed by an assessment of the advances and shortcomings of the global agenda of sustainable development, of the regional preparatory process for Johannesburg 2002, as well as of the threats posed by the new agenda of strategic security after the events of 11 September.
environment; sustainable development; Latin America; new global agenda