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Poverty is both a cause and an effect of environmental deterioration . Breaking the vicious circle in which so many of the people of the developing world are caught is imperative - on environmental as well as developmental grounds .
Poverty is both a cause and an effect of environmental deterioration . Breaking the vicious circle in which so many of the people of the developing world are caught is imperative - on environmental as well as developmental grounds .
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This would happen as governments felt politically threatened by an environmental movement beginning to transcend some of its earlier weaknesses : parochialism ( the “ not in my backyard ” syndrome ) ; otherworldliness , an antigrowth ...
This would happen as governments felt politically threatened by an environmental movement beginning to transcend some of its earlier weaknesses : parochialism ( the “ not in my backyard ” syndrome ) ; otherworldliness , an antigrowth ...
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Eastern European countries , assisting them on resource and environmental management projects and helping them to meet their international obligations to protect the environment . Delegates agreed to accelerate international dialogue on ...
Eastern European countries , assisting them on resource and environmental management projects and helping them to meet their international obligations to protect the environment . Delegates agreed to accelerate international dialogue on ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis book addresses the question: "If the development of the quarter of the world's people who are now rich has brought us all so close to the limits of sustainable living on Earth, how is the ... Read full review
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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