Latin America's Sustainable Development Challenge

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.