by Alain Marcoux
FAO Population Programme Service
August 1996
1. Population and natural resources conditions
2. Population and environment issues
3. Land degradation and its factors
4. Population-environment linkages and population programmes
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