Sustainable Development. Constraints and Opportunities

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Page vii
Acknowledgements, Page ix
1 - Environmental protection, Pages 1-7
2 - Environment and development, Pages 8-14
3 - Safeguarding the environment, Pages 15-20
4 - Disarmament and environment, Pages 21-24
5 - Environmental information for engineers, Pages 25-28
6 - Highways to nowhere, Pages 29-32
7 - Rolling back the wasteland, Pages 33-44
8 - Combining the best of the old with the best of the new, Pages 45-50
9 - A duty to hope – new directions for science and technology, Pages 51-61
10 - The peril of the two cities, Pages 62-65
11 - Putting the principles to work, Pages 66-70
12 - Towards a more prosperous global tomorrow, Pages 71-75
13 - Profiting from the environment, Pages 76-83
14 - Environmental management in the Gulf, Pages 84-96
15 - Sustainable development in a developing economy, Pages 97-107
16 - Desertification is stoppable, Pages 108-113
17 - Environmental impact assessment – principles and guidelines, Pages 114-116
18 - World population increase – our dangerous opportunity, Pages 117-125
19 - Caring for lakes in a changing world, Pages 126-135
20 - The global dimension to conservation issues, Pages 136-142
21 - Energy use and environment in the Asia/Pacific region, Pages 143-148
22 - The premises for building a sustainable society, Pages 149-157
23 - Partnership for conservation, Pages 158-161
24 - Environmental management, Pages 162-164
25 - Solving our environmental problems, Pages 165-168
26 - Protecting the ozone layer, Pages 169-171
27 - Global concern about environment, Pages 172-177
28 - Management of hazardous waste, Pages 178-180
29 - Women and the Earth's traditions, Pages 181-184
30 - An urgent role to save the Mediterranean, Pages 185-188
31 - Resource management – the human connection, Pages 189-195
32 - Climatic effects of carbon dioxide and other trace gases, Pages 196-199
33 - Desertification control – moving beyond the laboratory, Pages 200-204
34 - Towards an African Solution, Pages 205-208
35 - Socioeconomic benefits of environmental protection, Pages 209-213
Abbreviations, Pages 214-215
Index, Pages 216-221