Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering congress program and abstracts
Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineers congress program and abstracts
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How to Realize "Sustainable Development" of Asian Developing Countries
Masayoshi Sadakata
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In Asian countries, environmental destructions are progressing rapidly. For example, in Indonesia, forest of 1mil.ha is disappearing every year.1) In India, agricultural land of 5 mil.ha. has been salinized in the past2). In China, , the desert area is increasing by 0.34 mil.ha/year3). In this lecture, the main cause of environmental destruction in Asian countries is discussed at first and the way to the sustainable development of Asian countries is next. Sustainability here is defined as follows. "The present generation should hand over artificial and natural capitals those were succeeded from the former generation, where natural capitals mean rich soil, beautiful forest, wild creatures, clean air and waters, fossil fuels etc. those are non-renewable natural resources". Hence, Sustainable Development of Asian countries means "Economic growth of Asian countries keeping sustainability".
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