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Environment and Development: The Case of the Developing Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Joao Augusto de Araujo Castro
Affiliation:
Joao Augusto de Araujo Castro is the ambassador of Brazil to the United States. A career foreign service officer, he earlier was his country's permanent representative to the United Nations. The author wishes to stress that this article reflects a personal contribution to the understanding of an ecological policy as envisaged by developing countries. It should not be interpreted as necessarily reflecting the position of the government of Brazil.
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Interest in the field of ecology, which is centered in the developed countries, has recently increased due to the sudden discovery of a possible imbalance between man and earth. Resulting from the population explosion and the misuse of existing and newly developed technologies, this potential imbalance could bring about an environmental crisis menacing the future of mankind. In several countries the emergence of an interest in ecological problems has not been confined to the realm of the scientific community. It has aroused public concern which has expressed itself, although sometimes vaguely, in such initiatives as Earth Week, celebrated in the United States in April 1970, and the mushrooming of a specialized literature.

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Part 3. International Institutions: Their Present and Potential Roles
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1972

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