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The United Nations Environment Programme and the Ecological World*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Peter S. Thacher
Peter S. Thacher
Affiliation:
Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, P.O. Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.
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By these several citations from the topics before this Second International Congress of Ecology, I have tried to suggest the need and the feasibility for this discipline to play a more active role in the continuing development and improvement of the quality of human life on this planet.

The international system which is now preparing for the Development Decade of the 1980s, and the developing countries which seek their own paths—as many as are needed to match their varying environmental, social, economic, and cultural, endowments—are open to advice as to what to do in the general scientific, and most particularly in the ecological, context in which all continuing life must operate.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , Winter 1978 , pp. 241 - 245
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1978

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