Environmental and Social Studies: Towards sustainability and socially equitable development

This book, one in a series on Environmental and Social Studies, is inter-disciplinary. Designed for use in southern Africa, it is nonetheless full of factual information relevant worldwide. The series is based on understanding that life emerged from the substance of the earth itself and evolved in a close, interdependent, and constant relationship with it, and that the development of human societes and peoples' transformation of their physical environment are mutually interlinked and interactive. This volume addresses the major environmental issues of our time, supplying a background to many peritent issues.