POPULATION CHANGE-NATURAL RESOURCES-ENVIRONMENT LINKAGES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA


Slightly abridged version.

by Alain Marcoux
FAO Population Programme Service
August 1996

Table of Contents

1. Population and natural resources conditions

2. Population and environment issues

3. Land degradation and its factors

4. Population-environment linkages and population programmes

FOOTNOTES

REFERENCES

ANNEXES

ANNEX 1: List of national reports to UNCED
ANNEX 2: Regional patterns of land degradation

TABLES

Table 1. Some demographic characteristics and natural resources availability in Central and South Asia

Table 2. Environmental issues and their main direct factors in Central and South Asia

Table 3. Some characteristics of land degradation in eight countries of Central and South Asia