Beyond shifting sands : the environment in India and Pakistan

An essential reference for environmental and natural resource policy makers and managers. This guide contains for the SADC region and each country: an overview of the environmental institutions in the region and in each country; a directory of key environmental institutions and organizations and an annotated bibliography of major environmental assessments, strategies and policies.
This report analyses the factors which motivate land use by rural populations and provides a context for any policy or strategy which addresses natural resource conservation in the Sahel. The author suggests that production systems in the Sahel have reached or even exceeded their capacity to respond to the needs of a growing population and further that development aid has only had a negligible impact on the trend to over exploit.