Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set E: Development and the Environment

Development and the Environmental Crisis RED OR GREEN ALTERNATIVES? INTRODUCTION 1 Political economy and the environment 2 Global resource problems 3 Environmentalism and development 4 Rural poverty and the environment 5 Environmental conflict and development policy in rural Mexico 6 Technology and the control of resources 7 Development and the environment: a converging discourse? AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTS AND RESOURCES: 1 African environments and resources: an overview 2 The African environment: an historical overview 3 The patterns of political change: relationship to the environment 4 Tropical rainforest environments 5 The dry areas 6 The savanna and dry-forest environments 7 The highlands 8 Extratropical and southern Africa 9 Water: a scarce resource 10 Urban and industrial growth 11 Minerals, industry, and the environment 12 Environment and development in Africa: a review and prospect. LEARNING FROM CHINA? Development and environment in Third World countries: Environmental policy in China: a model for Third World Countries? PART I Chinese philosophies and strategies for development 1 On the reactions of Chinese culture against the Western challenge: the other side of modernization 2 The Chinese path to development 3 An essay on reproduction: the example of Xinjiang Uighur 4 Shortage of land resources as a factor in development: the example of the People}s Republic of China PART II Environmental policy and planning 5 The origins of environmental management in China 6 Economic reform and its impact on the environment in China 7 Agriculture and environmental protection in China 8 Rural ecodevelopment policy in China and the origins of economic adjustment 9 Agriculture as a component of China's modernization strategy 10 Energy and environment in China 11 The operational contexts between developmental, environmental, and settlement policies PART III The possibilities and constraints of policy implementation: learning from China 12 The implementation of national environmental policies in developing countries 13 The Natural Resources Program of the United Nations 14 Large-scale biogas technology in China: dissemination among developing countries 15 Biogas in Iran: learning from China? 16 From central provision to local enablement: new directions for housing policies 17 The rural habitat: main focus of appropriate technologies for rural development 18 The environment: what the Powers That Be care two hoots about.