The Global 2000 Report to the President--entering the Twenty-first Century: The technical report

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980
 

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Stranica 696 - E. recognize the worldwide and long-range character of environmental problems and, where consistent with the foreign policy of the United States, lend appropriate support to initiatives, resolutions, and programs designed to maximize international cooperation in anticipating and preventing a decline in the quality of mankind's world environment; F.
Stranica 521 - Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The IBRD, established in 1945, has the primary purpose of providing loans to developing countries for productive projects.
Stranica 436 - Causes, Consequences, Correctives, Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1969; Programme on Man and the Biosphere, "Consultative Group on Project 9: Ecological Assessment of Pest Management and Fertilizer Use on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems (Part on Fertilizers),
Stranica 332 - To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided. It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are (as far as we know) essential to its healthy functioning. It assumes, falsely, 1 think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.
Stranica 427 - Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring inside Her (New York: Harper and Row, 1978) and Pornography and Silence (New York: Harper and Row, 1981).
Stranica 454 - To put it more simply, the analysis shows that the executive agencies of the US Government are not now capable of presenting the President with internally consistent projections of world trends in population, resources, and the environment for the next two decades.
Stranica 437 - Conservation of natural areas and of the genetic material they contain 9 Ecological assessment of pest management and fertilizer use on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems...
Stranica 696 - ... current and foreseeable trends in the quality, management and utilization of such environments and the effects of those trends on the social, economic, and other requirements of the Nation...
Stranica 354 - Further support for this point is provided by the forthcoming report of the Demand and Conservation Panel of the National Academy of Sciences...
Stranica 7 - Growth rate The average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country.

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