Latin America's Sustainable Development Challenge
The Case of Guyana
Barry Munslow(Author)
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published on 26. May 1998
Book
Hardback
150 pages
978-1-85972-642-6 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of the sustainable development challenge in Guyana during the period up to the early 1990s. The sustainable developments challenge is then set against some of the issues facing Latin America in the mid-1990s
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 157 mm
Width: 224 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-642-6 (9781859726426)
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Content
Part 1 Guyana's challenge: Guyana's experience in the wider picture; the challenge. Part 2 Mining: bauxite; gold; other minerals. Part 3 Forestry: overview; new foreign logging initiatives; forest ownership; national forestry action programme; programme for sustainable tropical forestry; tropenbos. Part 4 Agriculture and fishing: agriculture; renewing the water management system; chemical inputs; fishing. Part 5 Human settlement and service provision: housing and overcrowding; water provision, sewerage and solid waste disposal. Part 6 Industry, transport and energy: industry; transport; energy. Part 7 Biodiversity, tourism and the Amerindian community: biodiversity; tourism and national parks; Amerindian community. Part 8 Towards a national strategy for sustainability: Rio earth summit and its legacy; coastal zone management; meeting the sustainable development challenge. Part 9 The institutional challenge: institutional structures; the environment; ministry of agriculture; Mahaica - Mahaicony - Abary agricultural development; authority; national parks commission; Guyana natural resources agency; university of Guyana; human settlement institutions; non-governmental institutions; the challenge of intersectoral coordination; attitudes towards the environment; institutional dichotomy - development versus sustainability; sustainability through the window of development; improving institutional coordination. Part 10 Reviewing progress in the 1990s: environmental warnings; decentralization and coordination; poverty and social welfare; winners and losers?; conclusion.