Author: Southgate, Douglas & Whitaker, Morris
Title: Economic Progress & the Environment. One Developing Country's Policy Crisis
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, ix, 150 pp. Textual maps,graphs & tables. Slight corner bump, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Causes of Renewable Resource Degradation: Environmental Crisis in the Latin American Countryside; Causes of Increasing Resource Scarcity; Policy Crisis & Environmental Degradation; Case Studies: Tropical Deforestation; Farmland Degradation; Waste & Misallocation of Water Resources; Oil Industry Pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon; Shrimp Mariculture & Coastal Ecosystems; Tourism & Species Preservation in the Galapagos; Conclusions & Recommendations: Development & the Environment: Some Common Fallacies; Resolving the Policy Crisis.

Keywords: Environmental Policy, Ecuador, South America, Environment, Economic, Development, Resource Management, Pollution, Deforestation