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1 online resource (141 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals Ser |
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Routledge Revivals Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; 1 Guyana's challenge; Guyana's experience in the wider picture; The challenges; 2 Mining; Bauxite; Gold and diamonds; Other minerals; 3 Forestry; Overview; New foreign logging initiatives; Forest ownership; Deforestation; National forestry action programme; Programme for sustainable tropical forestry; Tropenbos; Effects of forestry on biodiversity; Essential safeguards; 4 Agriculture and fishing; Agriculture; Renewing the water management system; Chemical inputs; Fishing |
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5 Human settlement and service provisionHousing and overcrowding; Service provision; 6 Industry, transport and energy; Industry; Transport; Energy; 7 Biodiversity, tourism and the amerindian community; Biodiversity; Tourism and national parks; Amerindian community; 8 Towards a national strategy for sustainability; Rio earth summit and its legacy; Coastal zone management; Meeting the sustainable development challenge; 9 The institutional challenge; Institutional structures; The environment; Ministry of Agriculture; Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) |
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National Parks CommissionGuyana Natural Resources Agency; University of Guyana; Human settlement institutions; Non-Governmental organisations; The challenge of intersectoral collaboration; Attitudes towards the environment; Institutional dichotomy: development versus sustainability; Sustainability through the window of development; Improving institutional coordination; 10 Reviewing progress in the 1990s; Environmental warnings; Decentralisation and coordination; Poverty and social welfare; Winners and losers?; Conclusion; Bibliography |
| Summary |
First published in 1998, this volume uses Guyana as an excellent, comprehensive case study to examine various sectors' operations, effects upon the environment and the ways in which the sector can impact upon the vitality and development potential of other sectors. The authors attempt to demonstrate how it is possible to adjust current sectoral activities for improved resource utilisation. They begin in the interior looking at mining and forest resource exploitation. Attention then moves towards the coast, looking at agriculture, fishing, human settlement and service provision. A review of industry, transport and energy follows before examining biodiversity, tourism and the Amerindian community. Finally, a detailed analysis is presented of the challenges to be faced in devising a sustainable development national strategy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sustainable development -- Government policy -- Guyana
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Sustainable development -- Guyana
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Sustainable development
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Sustainable development -- Government policy
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Guyana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429763465 |
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0429763468 |
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9780429427268 |
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0429427263 |
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