Environmental resources : the crisis of development

The aim of this volume is to present a syste matic account of the various aspects of resource development in their geographical perspectives. With the unprecedented growth in population and its consequential effects on the exploitation of natural resources, man is at cross-roads today to reconsider the economic and social developmental processes to be in harmony with natural environment.

The edited research papers, all commissioned especially for this book, from a galaxy of eminent professors and researchers in the field of environmental geography provide the diversified aspects of resource development. The field of environmental studies integrates the natural sciences with environmental ethics, environmental economics and planning in the broad spectrum of relationships between people and environment.

The book expounds upon the central theme whether the positive benefits of technology and resource development outweigh the nega tive ones of degradation of environment. Certainly the human race can move forward to a future to live in harmony with nature without further impoverishment of the land scape and the earth's resources because we have only one world to live in.