National Perspectives: How Solid a Line Against Development?
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The future of the Urban Development Boundary is up for grabs in Miami-Dade County as farmers and environmentalists face off about new construction.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: There is a north-south divide in the reaction to floods; only when the rich are hit will prevention be pushed up the agenda.
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While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them
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By the numbers: a snapshot of development's impact on water usage in the basin.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 13 (IPS) - By 2030, 1.2 billion people in developing countries  will belong to a global middle class, up from 400 million today.  The increase in wealth will make income inequality and  environmental pressures more acute, predicts the World Bank in a  report on 'Managing the Next Wave of Globalisation'.
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Fearful that growing pressure for development could cause the loss of vital plants and animals, biologists and conservationists are trying to rally new interest in protecting tropical forests and the keys they may hold for vital medicines.
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Economic development at the expense of the environment is like grabbing a good seat in the cinema of a sinking luxury liner.  Even worse, the more rapid the development, the more damage it does to the environment.  We are heavily indebted to environment.
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WINDHOEK, February 15  (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC)  should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union from  destroying its regional integration efforts.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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What can CAPS tell us about some alluring investments beyond our borders?
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Americans know a good deal when they see it. Today a group of  leading scientists and practitioners from several fields -- agriculture,  medicine, economics, education, engineering -- is making a proposal to  the world. If  rich and poor countries will follow through on the promises  they have made over the past five years  to fight extreme poverty and disease -- and rely on the best science and technology in doing  so -- the world can save millions of lives and extricate hundreds of millions of  its poorest people from the trap of extreme poverty. The cost is a mere 50 cents out of every $100 of rich-world income in the coming decade.
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JOHANNESBURG -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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OSHIKANGO, Namibia  - The other side of the fence  looks no different from this, but in some respects it is a  world away.
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&quot;The issue of climate change respects no border. Its effects cannot be reined in by an army nor advanced by any ideology. Climate change, with its potential to impact every corner
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The future looks bleak in much of the developed world. But it looks bright in the developing world, according to two surveys released in connection with the World Economic Forum.