Sustainable Development

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directly from
the land clearing forests. In the IVth region of Chile, forest regions are
being depleted at an amazing rate. This depletion of the forest in this region
results in two main things, one, people must spend increasing amounts of energy
traveling to the site of present cutting and two, the removal of the trees over
time has lead to soil erosion and rapid desertification of the area. This soil
erosion also removes many nutrients from the soil making the land poor for
agriculture. The third division, social, is not met here either. The lack of
organizations to relieve the negative effects of poverty on the environment have
only contributed to the problem.
In the Philippines the environmental degradation is similar in nature
but more catastrophic in result. There in the province of Leyte 6000 people
were killed when flash flood ripped through Ormoc City in 1991. The floods
were a result of logging of a forest in that region and conversion of that area
into ...

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the forests will not be lost now. And economically some
cutting is still down however it is sustainable cutting. New jobs were also
created in this program. In order to persuade villagers that this was the best
route to take, half of all fees paid by tourists to enter the parks within which
the forests are, go directly to development projects for the community. They go
to the community because of the "positive correlation between prosperity and
environmental quality. This means that the more prosperous you are the more
you can afford to clean up the environment. A poor country like Madagascar
could not possibly invest as much capital as Canada could into the reduction of
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