Africa
This book examines the importance of air pollution for the forests of rapidly industrialising countries and regions. Its geographical coverage includes South and Central America, Africa, and Asia, including Siberia, China and Korea. The problems presented by air pollution are placed within the more general context of sustainable development within these regions and the historical legacy that...
Through generations of innovation and experiment, smallholder farms (cultivated pieces of land smaller than 50 acres) have nurtured a rich diversity of both wild and domestic plants and animals. While most academic literature emphasises the accelerated loss of biodiversity, this book describes how large numbers of smallholder farmers are conserving biodiversity in their farmland and surrounds...
This book brings science to the heart of debates about globalisation by exploring the globalisation of science and its contrasting effects in Guinea (one of the world's poorest countries) and Trinidad (a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island). It focuses on environment, forestry and conservation, sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend...
Headwaters are the source of freshwater resources, the margins of drainage basins, and the first and zero order basins that surround every catchment. The challenge is to define appropriate, self-sustainable, management strategies and structures for these lands which meet the needs of the headwater habitat, including its human inhabitants, and the needs of habitats downstream.
The...
Malgré les nombreuses promesses de réforme, la Banque mondiale et le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) continuent à utiliser leur aide pour obliger les pays en développement à appliquer des politiques économiques inappropriées, avec l’accord tacite des gouvernements des pays riches. Ces conditions de politique économique...
Pese a los múltiples compromisos de reforma, el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) siguen utilizando la ayuda para obligar a los países en desarrollo a adoptar políticas económicas inadecuadas, con el acuerdo tácito de los países ricos. Estas condiciones de política económica menoscaban el proceso nacional de elaboraci...
Malgré les nombreuses promesses de réforme, la Banque mondiale et le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) continuent à utiliser leur aide pour contraindre les pays en développement à appliquer des politiques économiques inappropriées, avec l’accord tacite des gouvernements des pays riches. Ces conditions de politique é...
Despite numerous commitments to reform, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are still using their aid to make developing countries implement inappropriate economic policies, with the tacit approval of rich-country governments. These economic policy conditions undermine national policymaking, delay aid flows, and often fail to deliver for poor people. If the world is...
