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• catalog abstract "A few years ago, Roger Stone undertook a formidable challenge: to travel to representative villages in the tropical corners of the developing world to see how and whether economic development plans had improved the quality of the people's lives while also preserving each region's rich plant and animal life. In The Nature of Development, Stone reports on his findings and offers a lively prescription for sustainable economic growth that is environmentally sane and economically sound. By commercial and missionary airplane, bus, off-road vehicle, and dugout canoe--and of course by means of wearying foot journeys--Roger Stone reached his far-flung destinations all over Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Once there, he lived, walked, and talked at length with many diverse peoples: the Awa of Ecuador and Colombia; the Oku, who live near Kilum Mountain in Cameroon; the Hatam of the Arfak Mountains in Indonesia's Irian Jaya province; the resourceful, if underequipped, wardens of Zambia's national park service; the fishermen and farmers of a St. Lucia that Caribbean tourists seldom discover. While in the Amazon basin, he found sad tales of people without a future and of relentless environmental losses. More often, though, he returned with stories of hope and encouragement. For, as The Nature of Development shows, conservation and economic-development agencies can work together, and the governments of poor and rich countries alike can cooperate to improve human lives and stop disastrous ecological losses in the world's richest habitats. As new imperatives replace the global preoccupation with warfare and reckless modes of development, Stone's book carries a resonant and important message about how we have mistreated our habitats in the past and how we can achieve a new environmental world order.".
• catalog alternative "Peter S. Thacher Environment Collection env".
• catalog contributor b3613208.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "A few years ago, Roger Stone undertook a formidable challenge: to travel to representative villages in the tropical corners of the developing world to see how and whether economic development plans had improved the quality of the people's lives while also preserving each region's rich plant and animal life. In The Nature of Development, Stone reports on his findings and offers a lively prescription for sustainable economic growth that is environmentally sane and economically sound. By commercial and missionary airplane, bus, off-road vehicle, and dugout canoe--and of course by means of wearying foot journeys--Roger Stone reached his far-flung destinations all over Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Once there, he lived, walked, and talked at length with many diverse peoples: the Awa of Ecuador and Colombia; the Oku, who live near Kilum Mountain in Cameroon; the Hatam of the Arfak Mountains in Indonesia's Irian Jaya province; the resourceful, if underequipped, wardens of Zambia's national park service; the fishermen and farmers of a St. Lucia that Caribbean tourists seldom discover. While in the Amazon basin, he found sad tales of people without a future and of relentless environmental losses. More often, though, he returned with stories of hope and encouragement. For, as The Nature of Development shows, conservation and economic-development agencies can work together, and the governments of poor and rich countries alike can cooperate to improve human lives and stop disastrous ecological losses in the world's richest habitats. As new imperatives replace the global preoccupation with warfare and reckless modes of development, Stone's book carries a resonant and important message about how we have mistreated our habitats in the past and how we can achieve a new environmental world order.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Toward Convergence. 1. The Meaning of the Difference. 2. Stages of Development. 3. The Changing Conservation Ethic. 4. The Delayed Connection -- pt. II. At Work in the Field. 5. The Asian Miracle. 6. Latin America: The Lost Continent. 7. Africa: Tendrils of Hope -- pt. III. Making a Difference. 8. The Perils of Percolation. 9. New and Old Voices from the South. 10. Distant Thunder. 11. The View from the Kitchen.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 286 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Nature of development.".
• catalog identifier "0394583582 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Nature of development.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
• catalog relation "Nature of development.".
• catalog spatial "Developing countries.".
• catalog subject "338.9/00913 20".
• catalog subject "Economic development Environmental aspects.".
• catalog subject "Economic development projects Developing countries.".
• catalog subject "Environmental policy Developing countries.".
• catalog subject "HC59.72.E44 S76 1992".
• catalog subject "Sustainable development Developing countries.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Toward Convergence. 1. The Meaning of the Difference. 2. Stages of Development. 3. The Changing Conservation Ethic. 4. The Delayed Connection -- pt. II. At Work in the Field. 5. The Asian Miracle. 6. Latin America: The Lost Continent. 7. Africa: Tendrils of Hope -- pt. III. Making a Difference. 8. The Perils of Percolation. 9. New and Old Voices from the South. 10. Distant Thunder. 11. The View from the Kitchen.".
• catalog title "The nature of development : a report from the rural tropics on the quest for sustainable economic growth / Roger D. Stone.".
• catalog type "text".