The ecological handicap of the tropics
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Intereconomics
- Vol. 19 (3), 137-142
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02928308
Abstract
The long-forgotten subject of the ecological disadvantages of the tropics has been brought to the fore once again by the catastrophic droughts in the Sahel and in southern Africa. The naive belief that economic development is simply a matter of finding the right technology and of spreading scientific knowledge must give way to the acknowledgement that the “development threshold” of the tropical countries is very substantial and complex, and that surpassing it will be a long and wearisome business.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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