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17/ J. Urquhart and K. Heilmnn, Risk Watch: The Odds of Life (Bicester. UK: Facts on File, 1984).
18/ 'Risk Assessment and Risk Control' Issue Report. Conservation Foundation. Washington. DC. 19S5: . Schweigman etal.. '"Agrisk". Appraisal of Risks in Agriculture in Developing Countries'. University of Groningen. The Netherlands, 1981.
19/ A. Wijkman and L. Timberlake. Natural Disasters: Acts of God and Acts of Man? (London: Earthscan for the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Swedish Red Cross, 1984).
20/ WMO, A Report Of the International Conference on the Assesment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and of Other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impacts. Villach, Austria, 9–15 October 1 , WMO No. 661 (Geneva: WMO/ICSU/UNEP, 1986).
21/ For an overview of the current technological capabilities and possibility. es, see A. Khosla, Development Alternatives, New Delhi, 'Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development', prepared for WCED. 1986.
22/ See M.C. McHale etal., 'Ominous Trends and Valid Hopes: A Comparison of Five World Reports (Minneapolis, Minn.: Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, (year)) for a comparison of North-South: A Programme for Survival (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1980): World Bank, World Development Report 1980 (Washington, DC: 1980); U.S. Department of Sate and Council on E.vironmental Quality, Global 2000 Report to the president: Entering the Twenty-First Century (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980): IUCN/WIIF/UNEP, World Conservation Strategy (Gland, Switzerland: 1980); and OECD, Interfutures: Facing the Future , Mastering the Probable and Managing the Unpredictable (Paris: 1979). See also D. Meadows et al Groping in the Dark – The First Decade of Global Modelling (Chicheser, UK: John Wiley G Sons, 1982 for an analysis of various models.
23/ See C.O. Barney, Sudy Director, Global 2000 epo, op. cit.
24/ See OECD, Econmic and Ecological Interdependence, (Part: 1982).
25/ The importance of involving youth in nature conservation and environmental protection and improvement activities emphasized in many presentations at WCED Public Hearings. See, for example the report 'Youth Nature Conservation Movement in the Socialist Countries' to he Public Hearing at Moscow, December 1986.
26/ For an overview of the role and contribution of NGOs to environment and development action at the national and international levels, see 'NGO and Evironment-Development Issues', report to NCE by the Environment Liaison Centre, Nairobi, 1986. It includes a selection of 20 case studies of successful NGO environmental action around the world.
