Country report for UNCED : Vanuatu

Human needs and desires demand economic development.
Natural resources provide the physical basis for that
development. But ever more evidence accumulates to show that
human actions, whether through carelessness or through the
necessity for development, are causing environmental
degradation and resource depletion. This deterioration makes
continued economic development more difficult both because
damage to resources makes them less productive of economic
goods and because funding and human effort must be diverted
from development toward coping with environmental
deterioration. In this situation there has come to be
worldwide recognition that more attention must be given to
keeping the environment healthy over the long term and to
building safeguards into the development process to protect
natural resources.

"National Reports to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Developmend (UNCED) were prepared under the direction of the National Task Forces in 12 Pacific island countries with the fiancial and technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank and United Nations Development Programme..."|2 copies

Call Number: COU,333.719623 SOU [EL],VAN [EL]

Physical Description: vii, 70 p. ; 30 cm