Environment, Development and Sustainability

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Struggle of life or the natural history of stress and adaptation, by Martial Rossignol, Line Rossignol, Roelof A.A. Oldeman, and Soraya Bensine-Tizroutine.

David Pimentel

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 95-96

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Sustainable development - OECD policy approaches for the 21st century

R. Lee Hatcher

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 96-97

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Uses of Fish and Game by Inhabitants of an Extractive Reserve (Upper Juruá, Acre, Brazil)

A. Begossi, R.A.M. Silvano, B.D. do Amaral, O.T. Oyakawa

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 73-93

The fishing and hunting performed by inhabitants of the Extractive Reserve of the Upper Juruá, Acre, Brazil was studied, and an ecological analysis on the use of fish and game, including preferences, taboos and medicinal uses, and of fish abundance was made. Research was carried out at the Upper Juruá Extractive Reserve in three visits (1993 and 1994). A total of 143 individuals (101 families) living...

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Is there Really Spare Land? A Critique of Estimates of Available Cultivable Land in Developing Countries

Anthony Young

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 3-18

Five assessments covering less-developed countries have identified a ‘land balance’, available for future cultivation, using the approach of inventory and difference: assessment of the area cultivable, and subtraction of the area presently cultivated. All arrive at a balance of 1600–1900 Mha, about twice the present cultivated area. The supposed existence of this spare land is widely quoted in forecasts...

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Editorial

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 1-2

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Environment, Development and Sustainability

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 99-104

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Will Limits of the Earth's Resources Control Human Numbers?

David Pimentel, O. Bailey, P. Kim, E. Mullaney, more

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 19-39

The current world population is 6 billion people. Even if we adopted a worldwide policy resulting in only 2.1 children born per couple, more than 60 years would pass before the world population stabilized at approximately 12 billion. The reason stabilization would take more than 60 years is the population momentum – the young age distribution – of the world population. Natural resources are already...

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Ecological Impacts of Chile's Neoliberal Policies, with Special Emphasis on Agroecosystems

Miguel A. Altieri, Alejandro Rojas

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 55-72

Although Chile has been touted for developing a broad market liberalization and opening to the international economy, evidence is emerging that such neoliberal economic policies are dramatically impacting biodiversity and the natural resource base. This paper examines the evidence on the plundering of forestry and fishery resources and the damming and pollution of aquatic ecosystems. Although it may...

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Sustainable Development and Environment: a Renewed Effort in the OECD

Jeremy Eppel

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 1 > 41-53

The importance of sustainable development has been clearly recognised by the OECD Council at Ministerial Level. The Communiqué of the 1998 Ministerial Meeting states that ‘Ministers agreed that the achievement of sustainable development is a key priority for OECD countries. They encouraged the elaboration of the Organisation's strategy for wide-ranging efforts over the next three years in the areas...

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Tropical Coastal Organisms as Qualitative Indicators of Mercury and Organomercury for Sustainable Use of Living Resources

S.K. Sarkar, B. Bhattacharya, G. Bandopadhaya, Sankar Giri, more

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 2 > 135-147

Organisms sensitive to ambient environment are used as bioindicators in monitoring pollution. The present investigation is designed to measure the extent of mercury and organomercury levels in selective biota of different trophic levels inhabiting in the coastal environment of Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, eastern part of India. The primary objective of this work is to provide baseline data for future...

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Belief Networks: A Framework for the Participatory Development of Natural Resource Management Strategies

Jeremy Cain, Charles Batchelor, Dominic Waughray

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 2 > 123-133

Successful long-term management of natural resources requires the development of strategies which recognise the constraints pertaining to the environmental system and can therefore be realistically expected to work. This paper presents a new technique for strategy formulation using belief networks, a framework based on Bayesian probability calculus that supports the investigation of complex environmental...

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Book Review

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 2 > 171-173

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The Vandaclim Simulation Model: A Training Tool for Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment

R.A. Warrick, G.J. Kenny, G.C. Sims, W. Ye, more

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 2 > 157-170

This paper describes a training course on climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment. The course, developed in partnership with the CC:TRAIN Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), aims to enhance the capacity of developing countries to make their national communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The paper focuses...

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The Logical Foundations of Ecological Footprints

Andrew R.B. Ferguson

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 2 > 149-156

An academic debate about ecological footprints has started at last. It was set in motion by a critical article in Ecological Economics, 29(1), 61–72, by Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Harmen Verbruggen (henceforth B&V). Being ourselves major users of ecological footprints, we disagree with most of the criticisms that B&V level at the concept. In our experience, there are widespread misunderstandings...

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Water Resource Potential in Northern India: Constraints and Analyses of Price and Non-Price Solutions

Seema Bathla

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 2 > 105-121

The paper examines the linkages between water depletion, continuous population growth and economic development viewed primarily as agricultural development. This is done within a framework of a dynamic simulation model of ecological-economic type over extended periods of time. It is found that intensive agriculture, driven by an increase in the cropping intensity as a result of increase in area under...

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Agroecological Implications of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Madagascar

Norman Uphoff

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 3-4 > 297-313

A system of plant, soil, water and nutrient management for irrigated rice developed in Madagascar has been yielding 5, 10, even 15 t ha⁻¹ on farmers' fields where previous yields averaged around 2 t ha⁻¹. This is achieved using whatever variety of rice the farmer is already using and without having to utilize chemical fertilizer or other purchased inputs. This system, known as SRI, shows that alternative...

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Preface

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 3-4 > 181-183

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Applying Agroecology to Enhance the Productivity of Peasant Farming Systems in Latin America

Miguel A. Altieri

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 3-4 > 197-217

The great majority of farmers in Latin America are peasants who still farm small plots of land, usually in marginal environments utilizing traditional and subsistence methods. The contribution of the 16 million peasant units to regional food security is, however, substantial. Research has shown that peasant systems, which mostly rely on local resources and complex cropping patterns, are reasonably...

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Participatory Development of No-tillage Systems without Herbicides for Family Farming: The Experience of the Center-South Region of Paraná

Paulo Petersen, José Maria Tardin, Francisco Marochi

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 3-4 > 235-252

It is currently estimated that 40 million hectares worldwide are cultivated through no-tillage systems (Derpsh, 1998). Small family farms account for less than 50,000 ha, half of them located in South America's Southern Cone (Wall, 1998). Many hypotheses have been offered to explain why so few small farmers have adapted to this method. The most simplistic ones relate this limited adoption to small...

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Integrated Crop–livestock Management Systems in Sub-saharan Africa

Alice N. Pell

Environment, Development and Sustainability > 1999 > 1 > 3-4 > 337-348

This paper outlines the advantages of integrated crop–livestock systems and unsolved problems that need to be studied further. The discussion is subdivided by ecozone with consideration of arid and dry semi-arid areas with extensive livestock management; moist semi-arid and semi-humid areas where integrated crop–livestock systems are common; and humid areas where swine and poultry often predominate...

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Environment, Development and Sustainability

Struggle of life or the natural history of stress and adaptation, by Martial Rossignol, Line Rossignol, Roelof A.A. Oldeman, and Soraya Bensine-Tizroutine.

Sustainable development - OECD policy approaches for the 21st century

Uses of Fish and Game by Inhabitants of an Extractive Reserve (Upper Juruá, Acre, Brazil)

Is there Really Spare Land? A Critique of Estimates of Available Cultivable Land in Developing Countries

Editorial

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Will Limits of the Earth's Resources Control Human Numbers?

Ecological Impacts of Chile's Neoliberal Policies, with Special Emphasis on Agroecosystems

Sustainable Development and Environment: a Renewed Effort in the OECD

Tropical Coastal Organisms as Qualitative Indicators of Mercury and Organomercury for Sustainable Use of Living Resources

Belief Networks: A Framework for the Participatory Development of Natural Resource Management Strategies

Book Review

The Vandaclim Simulation Model: A Training Tool for Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment

The Logical Foundations of Ecological Footprints

Water Resource Potential in Northern India: Constraints and Analyses of Price and Non-Price Solutions

Agroecological Implications of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Madagascar

Preface

Applying Agroecology to Enhance the Productivity of Peasant Farming Systems in Latin America

Participatory Development of No-tillage Systems without Herbicides for Family Farming: The Experience of the Center-South Region of Paraná

Integrated Crop–livestock Management Systems in Sub-saharan Africa

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