TY - ECHAP
KW - biodiversity
KW - agriculture
KW - salinization
KW - desertification
KW - management
KW - sustainability
KW - development
KW - congresses
KW - watersheds
KW - forestry
KW - soil erosion
KW - agricultural conservation
KW - natural resources
KW - irrigation
KW - economics
KW - tropical
KW - agriculture and state
KW - biological diversity
KW - Third World countries
KW - waterlogging
AU - Robert Repetto
AU - Ted J. Davis
AU - Isabelle A. Schirmer
AB - I believe that sustainability with respect to natural resource management has a solid economic underpinning. It implies maintaining the productivity of the resource base. In fact, it implies more. In precisely those countries where populations are rising more rapidly, the poorest, the relative importance of natural resources in total productive capital is greatest. If those larger populations are to be enabled to improve their standards of consumption, the productivity of the asset base must increase. Yet, in these same countries and others, a wide range of natural resources are becoming less productive through depletion and deterioration. There is an issue of intergenerational equity. I do not propose to plunge into the arcane subject of social rates of time discount--one I gladly leave to more sophisticated theorists. But I raise the question: Is it fair to leave for a population that will inevitably be much larger (whatever to be much better off) a natural resource base that has been depleted and rendered significantly less productive than it is today? (author)
AN - 90-00956
BT - Sustainability Issues in Agricultural Development: Proceedings of the Seventh Agriculture Sector Symposium
C3 - 7th Agriculture Sector Symposium
CN - S604.5.A35 1987
CY - Washington, DC
DA - 01/1987
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - I believe that sustainability with respect to natural resource management has a solid economic underpinning. It implies maintaining the productivity of the resource base. In fact, it implies more. In precisely those countries where populations are rising more rapidly, the poorest, the relative importance of natural resources in total productive capital is greatest. If those larger populations are to be enabled to improve their standards of consumption, the productivity of the asset base must increase. Yet, in these same countries and others, a wide range of natural resources are becoming less productive through depletion and deterioration. There is an issue of intergenerational equity. I do not propose to plunge into the arcane subject of social rates of time discount--one I gladly leave to more sophisticated theorists. But I raise the question: Is it fair to leave for a population that will inevitably be much larger (whatever to be much better off) a natural resource base that has been depleted and rendered significantly less productive than it is today? (author)
PB - World Bank
PP - Washington, DC
PY - 1987
RN - <p>Local system: LIAS1348242</p><p>Local system: (OCoLC)15791230</p><p>Bibliography note: Includes bibliographies</p>
SN - 0-8213-0909-9
SP - 167
EP - 181
T2 - Sustainability Issues in Agricultural Development: Proceedings of the Seventh Agriculture Sector Symposium
TI - Managing natural resources for sustainability
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/925356016
ER -