Population, Land Management and Environmental Change: No. 4 (UNU Global Environmental Forum) - Softcover

United Nations University Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9280809563 ISBN 13: 9789280809565

Publisher: United Nations University, 1999

Synopsis

Agricultural development that is environmentally, socially, economically, and culturally sustainable is essential for food production of the increasing world population, and the very future of mankind. The issues pertaining to the so-called population-environmental nexus are at the heart of the current debate on sustainable development. It is argued that while on a global scale population growth is one of the main driving forces of environmental change, there are significant local variations in the interrelationship between people, food production, and environmental change.This publication is base on the UNU Global Environmental Forum, which brought together leading scholars from both the South and the North to address the issues of population, land management, and environmental change. The authors draw extensively upon field research carried out in the tropical and subtropical regions of South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Amazon. the agricultural ecosystems; indigenous knowledge in the sustainable management of biological and land resources; the role of women; and participatory approaches to rural development. It is realized that a large part of the problem of conservation of biological diversity lies outside of the protected areas, in agricultural areas where pressures have led to often detrimental changes in the production processes and the environment. It is argued that indigenous production systems are often highly adaptive to the local ecological and socio-economic conditions, and can be sustainable if given the chance.

Edition details

• Publisher: United Nations University
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9280809563
• ISBN 13: 9789280809565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92