Environment and development in Asia and the Pacific. Experience and prospects
Anonymous
UNEP Reports and Proceedings, UN Environment Programme, Kenya 6: 432
1982
Document Number: 208384
The publication contains the report and background papers of a regional seminar, "Alternative patterns of development and life-styles in Asia and the Pacific", jointly convened by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the UN Environment Programme, in Bangkok, 14-18 August 1979. Of the 24 papers presented, the following relate to rural development: Environment and development in Asia and the Pacific; Interrelations among population, resources, environment and development; Approaches to land management; Environmental problems and the planning of development in arid South-West Asia; Integrated approaches to water-resources management in rural areas; A case study of the Pa Mong Project: environmental aspects; Economics and sociology of alternative energy sources; Environment and development planning: some methodological and institutional considerations; Environment and development planning in Thailand; China: biogas utilization and comprehensive development in China; India: environmental planning in the Indian power programme; Indonesia: development planning and the environment; Sri Lanka: the Mahaweli Development Scheme, the free-trade zone and the environment; Thailand: Songkhla Lake Basin Development; USSR: socialist planning, rational use of natural resources and environmental protection in the Uzbek Republic.