"This reader is envisioned as a resource for policy-makers and project planners, providing an overview of Environmental Communication as a management tool for initiatives geared towards environmen
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tal sustainability. The authors hope that their articles will convincingly show why and how Environmental Communication should become an integral component of policies and projects, and thereby help ensure that adequate human and financial resources are allocated to this end. The idea for this book was born at an international workshop on "Communicating the Environment" organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in Bonn, Germany in late 1996." (Preface, page 5)
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"As the level of economic expansion of the under-developed regions of the world rises, they will come to need a better and more extensive telecommunications network — The part which communications satellites could play in this necessary improveme
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nt of inter-regional links — Satellites constitute one of the telecommunications media — This medium will be used only for specific tasks and in specific circumstances — Description of the present techniques in the field studied — Possibilities offered by these systems in the future — Economic aspects — Comparison with other systems likely to be used in the field of telecommunications. [Working Paper. Contribution to: The United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Geneva, 4 to 20 February 1963. E/Conf. 39/L/65. Agenda Item: L.5.2]" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1125, topic code 09)
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