Natural Resource and Environmental Economics: Links
Chapter 2
The origins of the sustainability problem
Biodiversity
Population
- UNFPA
- The United Nations Population Fund is the site of the United Nations
Population Fund, which channels population programme aid from donor to developing
countries, where there is access to publications on population programmes.
- United Nations Population Division
The site of the United Nations Population Division, where up to date
information on population projections can be found
Environmental "life support" services
- UNFPA
- The United Nations Population Fund
- Biospheres
Interest in the extent to which reproducible capital can substitute for the
life support services provided by the natural environment was stimulated by
space exploration. In 1991 a self-contained life-support system for humans
was built in Arizona at a cost of some $200 million. It was intended that
this would, using only energy from outside, support 8 people for 2 years.
It failed to do this. The facility still exists and has been used for further
experiments. For more information visit this web link.
United Nations and other official international agencies
Governments
NGOs and other non-governmental organisations
Universities
Climate change
Food and agriculture
Fisheries
Forestry
Ecology
