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In the US Interest: Resources, Growth, and Security in the Developing World

Author
Welsh Brown J. (ed)
Date
1990
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-043300)
Publisher | Place of publication
Westview Press Inc. | Boulder, CO, USA
ISBN
0-8133-1053-9
Pages
228 p.
Language
English
Field of application
International
Country/Territory
United States of America, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Developing countries Comprehensive description
Abstract

The book explores the economic and political consequences of rising birth rates, diminishing water and energy supplies, declining agricultural productivity, pollution, and the rapid depletion of forests, fisheries, and other vital natural resources in the developing world and revealss how the trends threaten the viability of key developing countries on which US trade, debt and security interests depend Contents: 1. Why should we care? 2. Mexico's environment and the United States 3. Resources, population and the future of the Philippines 4. Dimensions of national security: the case of Egypt 5. Land, resources and people in Kenya 6. U.S. policy in the crucial decade ahead