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Hanna, Rema; Oliva, Paulina – Future of Children, 2016
Climate change may be particularly dangerous for children in developing countries. Even today, many developing countries experience a disproportionate share of extreme weather, and they are predicted to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change in the future. Moreover, developing countries often have limited social safety nets,…
Descriptors: Climate, Children, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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Rice, James – Social Forces, 2007
We evaluate the argument that international trade influences disproportionate cross-national utilization of global renewable natural resources. Such uneven dynamics are relevant to the consideration of inequitable appropriation of environmental space in particular and processes of ecological unequal exchange more generally. Using OLS regression…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Income, International Trade, Developing Nations
Sedere, Upali M. – Online Submission, 2008
School based general education aught to be a future oriented subject. However, over the years, due to parental and grand-parental generations setting policies of education for the younger generation, education is always more past oriented than future oriented. This trend did not cause much of a problem when the change over time was moderate. As…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Marine Sciences. – 1980
Beginning in the late 1970's, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) increased their efforts to formulate and implement African development programs. Reported in this document is a meeting on marine resource technology which was jointly convened by…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, International Programs, International Relations
de Man, W. H. Erik, Ed. – 1984
This preliminary conceptual framework and the 23 related guidelines have been prepared by specialists drawn from both developed and developing nations as a joint project of the International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC). The project was designed to analyze linkages between natural resource based data and certain types of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Databases, Developing Nations, Geographic Distribution