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Guided by General Assembly resolution 3168 (XXVIII) of 17 December 1973, in which the Assembly requested the Council to give priority, inter alia, to the strengthening of economic, scientific and technical co-operation among states. It is necessary to bring these research and action targets to the attention of the Governments and scientific teams of all countries, developed or…

The Birth of International Land Governance. The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment convened in Stockholm, Sweden, in the midst of severe drought in the Sahelian region of Africa. Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, approximately 100,000 people died due to food shortages and disease. The drought led to fears the Sahel was turning into a permanent desert due to mismanagement of…

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the…

Extended treatise on the world's arid regions and the social, ecological and geographical problems of resource management. With figures, photographs, drawing and charts. Contents: Part One: Cultural and Social Problems. 1) Marion Clawson: Social and Institutional Obstacles to Agricultural Development of Arid Lands in the Middle East. 2) Manfred A. Max-Neef: Resource-Allocation…

Environmental Conservation is one of the longest-standing, most highly-cited of the interdisciplinary environmental science journals. It includes research papers, reports, comments and subject reviews addressing environmental policy, practice, and natural and social science of environmental concern at the global level, informed by rigorous local level case studies. The journal's scope is very…

This book is concerned with the difficulties faced by farmers in Afro-Asia and Latin America in attempting to increase their agriucltural productivity. The first part deals with the economic and social obstacles to agricultural development and considers some policies for overcoming them.In the second part the attention is focused on the physical environment of the developing world and the…