Environment and Development and their International and National Implications

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Part One: The International Dimension of the Environmental Question. The main purpose and central objective of this part is to demonstrate the interconnections existant between the economic development process in the global context, and its influence on the environmental problems in developing countries, especially in Latin America. Sustainable Development is a process of change in which the explotation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional changes are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations. Within the concept of Confused Development in the developing countries, the following items can be identified: 1) Development without infrastructure. 2) Development without participation. 3) Development without consideration of women. 4) Development without consideration of the environment. 5) Development without consideration of the poor. 6) Development without dissemination of knowledge. Thus considerations of the international dimension of the environmental macrosystem must consider the following aspects: 1) Environmental problems disregard national, political, or administrative borders. 2) Problems are not solved by an accumulation of various environmental policies ; rather, solutions lie in coordinated environmental policy. 3) The Third World contains 75% of world resources; in many cases these natural resources having been degraded by wrongful strategies related to the development of the First World. Three case studies are presented to illustrate the dynamic linking environmental problems and international interests: 1) The Hamburguer and the Tropical Rain Forest. 2) Exportation of Toxic Chemical Products. 3) Genetic Resources and Their Importance. Part Two: The National Dimension of the Environmental Question. In Argentina, as in all Latin American countries, there is one mode of development seen transnationally. This is feedback loop of "society-economy-nature". Specifically in Argentina the garbage management problem in Buenos Aires City and Greater Buenos Aires. The following general recommendations were developed: -Adoption of a new economic-ecological model, "Ecodevelopment", in which the equilibrium is a tantamount importance. -Promotion of "environmental education". -Modification of environmental legislation to allow for punishment of those who commit crimes against the nature and the environment. -Incorporation of an environmental chapter in the Argentinian Constitution.
1993-03-25

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