ABSTRACT
Deterioration of renewable natural resources in the Third World has attracted increasing attention during the past few years. Stated explicity or inferred implicitly is the need to design environmental policy and resource development projects in ways that take into account local, human realities. The efforts of representatives of both worlds, particularly in situations where they have worked together and thus have learned from one another have led to encouraging results in the Third World. Much has been learned about specific, sometimes unique, local physical environments, dramatically increasing the possibility of technology transfer had learned to select and adapt technologies within the contexts of given institutional situations. They offer something also to the planner, the researcher, the academic, the student-all of whom seek to identify, perhaps to formulate, paradigms to more effectively guide future efforts focused on the sustainable development of natural resources.
