ENVİRONMENTAL SCARCITIES AND NORTHSOUTH RELATIONS

Authors : Ayşe Gülgün Tuna

Pages : 39-56

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000148

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Publication Date : 1994-05-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Throughout history, poverty has bccn the lot of most members of the human race.1 As we approach the 21 st century, the world is stili sharply polarized betwecn the rich and the poor - on the one hand, the developed industrialized Northern countries vvith affluent lifestyles; on the other the less developed, impoverished Southern countries vvhich aspire to the same model and level of economic development. The emcrgence of ecological scarcitics has added a new controversy to the longstandirıg debate över the strueture of relationships betvveen the North and the South, for, according to one view, environmental issues are just another means for the developed countries to continue to control and exploit the economies of less developed countries, vvhile, from a more optimistic perspeetive, environmental threats could be utilized as an opportunity for global coopcration.  
Keywords : ENVİRONMENTAL SCARCITIES, NORTHSOUTH, RELATIONS