The concept of carrying capacity and land-use.

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-347
Author(s):  
C. Geerling ◽  
S. de Bie
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Third World ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
The Third ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Potential Land

Land use is far from sustained in large parts of the Third World. Ecosystems and sociological systems are degraded as a result of resource depletion. Restoring the equilibrium between exploitation and the availability of resources is a matter of economic and ecological survival for both man and nature in these systems. The concept of carrying capacity lends itself to analysis of actual and potential land use which in turn makes it possible to identify the development potential and the limiting factors which may be alleviated by inputs in order to reduce degradation and raise productivity. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

Environmental Influences on the Development of Traditional Conservation in the South Pacific Region

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Relative Equilibrium ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
The South ◽  
Island Populations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Third World

There is an urgent need for improved understanding of conservation attitudes in the Third World because of the increasing rate of resource depletion that is now occurring in the countries involved. Although conservation practices by traditional societies in the Third World have received much attention from research workers, the fact that some practices are intentional and others inadvertent has been largely ignored. However, it is the motivation for these intentional conservation measures and the environmental influences on the people who apply them, which is crucial to understanding variations in conservation behaviour among traditional societies.Traditional conservation in the South Pacific was based on a complex system of resource-use taboos which prevented overexploitation in the limited island environment. These taboos contributed to the achievement during pre- European times of what appears from historical accounts to have been a state of relative equilibrium between island populations and their resources.Predictability and extremeness are two environmental factors which are thought to affect the development of conservational behaviour. Both these factors were examined in the light of traditional conservation in the South Pacific. Droughts and hurricanes are the two main sources of environmental unpredictability in the South Pacific, although the islands vary considerably in the degree to which they are affected by them. It was concluded that a distinction between real and perceived environmental predictability was necessary before one could fully understand the influence of predictability upon the development of conservational behaviour in the South Pacific.

scholarly journals The Dichotomy in between Ecocentrism & Anthropocentrism: An Ecocritical Rendering of Two Indian English Poets

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Goutam Karmakar ◽  
Shri Krishan Rai ◽  
Sanjukta Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Native People ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Indian English ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Third World

One of the plebeian environmental moral dilemmas that are noticed in third world nations are the dialectical assimilation in between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. Owing to some devout and semipolitical prejudices some people are taking the whip hand over nature snubbing the nature, flora and fauna. But concurrently some of the great unwashed gestate in nature centered ecological system and yielding values to all non-human entities unheeding of their usefulness to human civilization. In the third world Asian countries this situation is even more abominable and eminent eco-socialists assay to exhibit this delineated envision in various ways for it becomes necessitate for them. While it is in the case of literary eminent some Indian English poets conjure up their apotheosis and cerebration through their penned composition. Poets from Indiaon one hand depict the anthropocentric attitude of their native people and simultaneously they assume ecocentric attitude. Exalted bookmen like Keki N.Daruwalla and Shiv K.Kumar evince the world with its acculturation, sights and sounds, predilection, disillusionment, bewilderment and discombobulation ensuing from modern way of living and mentation. So from this vantage point their eco-poems arbitrate in between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. A construe brooding of some of their oeuvre excogitate light on environmental awareness along with the enactment of human and non-human relation which is often laissez faire and patriarchal. Concurrently their perdurable compositions splay socio-ecologic discouse through which readers can ensnarl with the demography, urbanization, modernization and development of environmental activism. Their abiding oeuvre works like a mirror where the congenial understanding between man and nature along with the scope of verdict is contrived. Working within the peripheries of environmentalism their aeonian verse paves a way through which a solution within this third world environmentalism can be made possible.

Power for development. Electricity in the Third World

IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Mohan Munasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Health Informatics Education in the Third World

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 270-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Rienhoff
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Third World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Abstract:The state of the art is summarized showing many efforts but only few results which can serve as demonstration examples for developing countries. Education in health informatics in developing countries is still mainly dealing with the type of health informatics known from the industrialized world. Educational tools or curricula geared to the matter of development are rarely to be found. Some WHO activities suggest that it is time for a collaboration network to derive tools and curricula within the next decade.

Alkohol im Tank – Bio-Kraftstoffe und die Grenzen moderner Mobilität

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (136) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Hartwig Berger
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The article discusses the future of mobility in the light of energy resources. Fossil fuel will not be available for a long time - not to mention its growing environmental and political conflicts. In analysing the potential of biofuel it is argued that the high demands of modern mobility can hardly be fulfilled in the future. Furthermore, the change into using biofuel will probably lead to increasing conflicts between the fuel market and the food market, as well as to conflicts with regional agricultural networks in the third world. Petrol imperialism might be replaced by bio imperialism. Therefore, mobility on a solar base pursues a double strategy of raising efficiency on the one hand and strongly reducing mobility itself on the other.

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