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...World to % embrace the goal of sustainable development -- economic growth that relies only on renewable resources and does not permanently damage the environment. But the debt-burdened developing nations cannot be expected to do so without an enormous influx of funds and technology from the North. According to Kenneth Piddington, director of the World Bank's Environment Department, the crucial question is, "Are the rich countries of a mind to organize the transfer of resources in such a way that the Thailands and Indonesias of this world are actually going to benefit materially from the way they have dealt with...
...Alexandria participants were: Lester Brown, Worldwatch Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes, Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of People's Deputies, U.S.S.R...
...have to devise comprehensive national zoning plans so that their countries can achieve the right mix of preservation and economic growth. Local residents can be encouraged to earn a livelihood in the more robust areas, while habitats that are fragile can be protected. Sustainable development can proceed, noted Kenneth Piddington, director of the environmental department of the World Bank, "right up to a park's boundary...
Promptly the new Premier of New South Wales, Conservative B. S. B. Stevens, tried to spike the Piddington protest by saying that "the opinion of the best constitutional lawyers is opposed to Justice Piddington's view...
...back up his opinion Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington resigned last week in protest against the action of the crown, resumed his scholarly researches as president of the Australian Modern Languages Association. Friends of Mr. Justice Piddington recalled that he was not appointed to the Industrial Court during the Lang régime but previously. They prophesied that his stand will enable ex-Premier Lang to stump New South Wales in the coming election on the issue of Royal meddling in the affairs of a sovereign Australian state...