Ecological problems of developing countries / by Oleg Dreyer, Bella Los and Victor Los

The present publication, Ecological Problems of Developing Countries by O.K. Dreyer, B.V.Los and V.A. Los, is con cerned with the ecological problems of today and tomorrow in the newly free countries.

On the threshhold of the 3rd millein nium attention has been increasingly attracted by problems of the future of the world and prospects for civilization. In an effort to predict the shape of things to come, the human mind has been in quisitively striving to discern the con tours of the forseeable future. In this respect reflections about prospects for the relationships between the in dividual, society and nature seem to be of a particular significance.

The authors of the present book have tried to provide an answer to questions to which they attribute particular sig nificance such as what are the specific features of the ecological situation now and what it is likely to change in the future.

First, the book embodies what is per haps one of the maiden attempts in world literature to analyse the par ticularities of the manifestation of socio ecological contradictions in developing countries. the

Second, the ecological situation in the countrics of Asia, Africa and Latin America is discussed within the framework of vital issues facing mankind such as demographic, food and energy problems.

Third and final, the authors outline ways following which the countries in question will be able to count on a posi tive solution of the problem of relation ships between man, society and nature.

The book does not slur over the difficul ties which beset the overcoming of the contradictions between man and en vironment. Nevertheless, the accent is on the possibilities of averting the degradative environmental changes in the developing countries. These pos sibilities are associated with concrete prospects for socio-economic, scien tific-technological and socio-cultural development, for the establishment of a new international economic order and for the preservation of world peace.