How To Save The World: Strategy For World Conservation (1980)

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Current attempts by a quarter of the world's people to carry on consuming two-thirds of the world's resources and by half of the people simply to stay alive are destroying the very means by which all people can survive and prosper. How to save the world describes the most urgent of the threats to human survival and well-being: soil erosion, loss of cropland, expansion of deserts, deforestation, marine pollution and overfishing, and extinction of species and varieties. More important, it shows what should be done about them, setting out a strategy for action in the 1980s. Based on the World Conservation Strategy, prepared by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources for the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Wildlife Fund, this book explains what needs to be done to tackle immediate problems, and how conservation and development can be integrated so that such problems are avoided in the future. ISBN:9780850383157