Ecological Problems of developing countries

The present publication, Ecological Problems of Developing Countries by O.K. Dreyer, B.V.Los and V.A. Los, is concerned with the ecological problems of today and tomorrow in the newly free countries. On the threshold of the 3rd millennium 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 inquisitively striving to discern the con tours of the foreseeable future. In this respect reflections about prospects for the relationships between the individual, 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 significance 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 perhaps one of the maiden attempts in world literature to analyze the particularities of the manifestation of socioecological contradictions in the developing countries. Second, the ecological situation in the countries 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 positive solution of the problem of relation ships between man, society and nature. The book does not slur over the difficulties which beset the overcoming of the contradictions between man and environment. 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.