<p>The main principle for the sustainable development of water resources is that the rate of extraction both from ground and surface water sources should not exceed the rate at which the resource is renewed and its extraction ...

The construction of polders was recognized as a potential method of developing coastal lowlands, river valleys, marshes and swamp ground, as well as tidal embayments and gulf areas. In as much as the largest populations ...

<p>The impacts of economic reforms on rural poverty are still not adequately known. While the developing countries of the region have embarked on the reforms path to increase economic growth rates and integrate national ...

<p>The Symposium on Tourism Promotion in the Asian Region was organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) at Hangzhou, China, from 12 to 15 November 1990 in collaboration with the China ...

<p>This study was prepared by the ESCAP/UNDP project Economic Restructuring and International Trade in the Mineral Commodities Sector (RAS/089/027) by a team from the Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy ofthe ...

<p>This monograph presents a study of the development of the backward linkages in the electronics industry in six countries in the Asian and Pacific region. Much of the information about backward linkages between local ...

The main part ofthis four-volume series comprises a set of papers commissioned for two seminars: the Seminar on Issues Associated with Offshore Installations and Structures in the Exclusive Economic Zone held at Bangkok ...

Notes that the distinctive feature of the Jakarta Plan of Action is its integrated-thematic approach where the major issues associated with the development of human resources development are classified under the three major ...

The twenty-fifth session of the Committee for Co-ordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP) and twenty-fourth session of its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) were held in Baguio City, ...