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

Autor
Welsh Brown J. (ed)
Fecha
1990
Fuente
IUCN (ID: MON-043300)
Editor | Lugar de publicación
Westview Press Inc. | Boulder, CO, USA
ISBN
0-8133-1053-9
Páginas
228 p.
Idioma
Inglés
Campo de aplicación
Internacional
País/Territorio
Estados Unidos de América, Egipto, Kenya, México, Filipinas
Materia
Medio ambiente gen.
Palabra clave
Países en desarrollo Descripción completa
Resumen

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