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Science, Technology, Development, and Environment: The Emerging Synthesis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Affiliation:
Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, P.O. Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya; sometime Professor of Botany in the University of Baghdad and of Microbiology in Cairo University; formerly Secretary-General of the National Science Council of Egypt, Minister of Youth, and President of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt.
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Technology is an essential instrument for the achievement of sustainable and environmentally sound development. But it is also through the application of such technology that Man has most impact on the environment.

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , Winter 1979 , pp. 253 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1979

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