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It is in the best interest of all concerned that tourism become sustainable and environmentally compatible. This need for "sustainable development" is and more by the responsible parties. Moreover, in the being recognised more search for solution strategies the realisation is gaining ground that tourism must be viewed as a worldwide phenomenon whose development must be co-ordinated in a co…

Landlocked Burkina Faso has launched a ten-year plan to combat desertification and land erosion through district-focused reafforestation programmes that would also help local people generate income from the trees. Some 350 districts will be covered in the programme which would lead to the development of 17,500 hectares of forest in the dry West Africa country. Each district is expected to…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, it continues to publish cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences…

This study was written by Richard T. Kingsford on assignment from the Ramsar Bureau as a briefing paper for distribution at the First COP of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Rome, 29 September to 10 October 1997. It is a particularly valuable effort in that it both surveys the relationships between wetland conservation and concern for the threats of desertification…

This paper is based on a meeting of experts involved in implementing the Rio agreements that explored how to create "synergies" in national implementation of these international instruments. This is a central challenge for developing nations that must develop specific implementation mechanisms and fulfill obligations involving reporting, training, public education and other activities under the…

Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not just on poverty of incomes but on poverty from a human development perspective - poverty as…