
This book examines major issues in the four main renewable resource sectors in developing countries--fisheries, forestry, agriculture, and water--with emphasis on the problems and benefits attendant to various use patterns and management practices.

Much of the improvement in material living standards in the Third World is attributable to the exploitation of nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels and metallic ores, and to the exploitation of renewable resource systems at rates that cannot be sustained. This state of...