Environmental Sustainability-Practical Global Applications

A Synthetic Framework and a Heuristic for Integrating Multiple Perspectives on Sustainability-Fraser Smith PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES: THIRD WORLD AND FIRST WORLD COMPARED o Patterns of Sustainability in the Americas: The U.S. and Amerindian Lifestyles-Clovis Cavalcanti o Ecologically Sustainable Institutions-Aseem Prakash and Anil K. Gupta o Sustainable Development: A Southeast Asian Perspective-Kiew Bong Heang PART II: PRACTICAL STEPS TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY o Economic vs. Financial Pricing of Timber and Its Probable Impact on National Accounts-Juan Antonio Aguirre o The Valuation and Pricing of Non-Timber Forest Products: Conceptual Issues and a Case Study from India-Kanchan Chopra o Poverty Alleviation, Empowerment and Sustainable Resource Use: Experiments in Inland Fisheries Management in Bangladesh-Ana Doris Capistrano, Mokammel Hossain and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed o Wildlife Use for Economic Gain: The Potential for Wildlife to Contribute to Development in Nambia-Caroline Ashley and Jonathan Barnes o Resources Used in Attaining Land Tenure Security: The Case of Peruvian Amazonia-Roxana M. Barrantes o Property Rights, Nature Conservation and Land Reform in South Africa-Neil Adger o Sustainable Development of Indigenous Communities: A Theoretical and Practical Approach-Victor M. Toledo o Energy, Environment and Development: Egypt, South Africa and China-Kathleen L. Abdalla