Sustainable Resource Development in the Third World

ISBN-13: 9780367304782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 177 str.

Doug Southgate; John F. Disinger

Opis

This book provides insights into the assessment of environmental problems in the Third World and development of strategies for dealing with those problems, particularly focusing on watershed management and addressing renewable energy projects and threats to biological diversity.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- Social Forestry and Sustainable Development -- Soil Erosion on Cultivated Steeplands of the Humid Tropics and Subtropics -- What Are the Soil and Water Benefits of Planting Trees in Developing Country Watersheds? -- Renewable Energy Projects In Developing Countries: Contributing to Success and Failure -- Social Science Analysis -- Economic Analysis of Renewable Resource Conservation in the Third World -- The Social Dimension of Natural Resource Management -- The Economics of Biological Diversity: Apologetics or Theory? -- Case Studies -- Evolutionary Conservation Project Planning and Implementation: NARMA in the Dominican Republic -- Environmental Management Education: A Model for Sustainable Natural Resources Development -- Implementing the World Conservation Strategy: Success Stories from Central America and Colombia -- The Strategy of Decentralized Production and Distribution of Improved Charcoal Stoves in Kenya -- Sustainable Development of Natural Resources in the Third World: The Human Equation -- Postscript

O autorze

Doug D. Southgate Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus. John Dishinger, Editor.