Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America

Roadmap for sustainable water resources in southwestern North America.

The management of water resources in arid and semiarid areas has long been a challenge, from ancient Mesopotamia to the modern southwestern United States. As our understanding of the hydrological and climatological cycles has improved, and our ability to manipulate the hydrologic cycle has increased, so too have the challenges associated with managing a limited natural resource for a growing po...

Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Brazil

1. The natural setting 2. A sense of history: occupation of the territory 3. Economy and society 4. Pressures on the environment and natural resources at the end of the twentieth century 5. Initiatives to mitigate the adverse consequences of the development style 6. Grassroots and other initiatives towards another development style 7. Perspectives Acknowledgement Glossary Bibliography Biographi...

On Harnessing Natural Resources for Sustainable Development

Is the Present Pace of Economic Development Sustainable? The mainstream economics has characteristically been myopic in visualizing the relationship between human beings and the ecosphere, the surrounding in which they live, work and prosper. Man thought that everything, whether animate or inanimate, exists for him and he exists only for himself. Nature is bountiful to him; moreover, nature is ...

SuStainable urbanization in aSia and latin america

Role of Managed Forestlands and Models for Sustainable Forest Management: Perspectives from North America

realistically and justifiably allocated to protected areas? And perhaps even more importantly, on the remaining actively managed landscape, what forest management practices should be employed and how can these be encouraged? Answers to these questions must be adaptive to evolving models of sustainable ecosystem management as well as geopolitical context and local community involvement. In this ...