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