Country report for UNCED : Vanuatu

Description:

Human needs and desires demand economic development. Natural resources provide the physical basis for that development. But ever more evidence accumulates to show that human actions, whether through carelessness or through the necessity for development, are causing environmental degradation and resource depletion. This deterioration makes continued economic development more difficult both because damage to resources makes them less productive of economic goods and because funding and human effort must be diverted from development toward coping with environmental deterioration. In this situation there has come to be worldwide recognition that more attention must be given to keeping the environment healthy over the long term and to building safeguards into the development process to protect natural resources.

Display date:

1992

Collections:

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Publisher:

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Content partner:

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Availability:

Not specified