Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 126 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 1156 Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement Global Resources found in tropical forests the developing states demanded access to Western environmental technology in return. At Founex and again at Stockholm the developing countries of the south charged the north with using environmental issues to restrict their economic growth. A term coined at Founex ecodevelopment or development conducted in an ecologically sound manner became the theme for the Stockholm Conference. Another dispute that surfaced at Stockholm was a result of the Cold War. The Western countries adopted the Vienna formula which gave the Federal Republic of Germany West Germany a seat at Stockholm and refused to seat the German Democratic Republic East Germany . As a result the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact bloc of countries refused to attend the conference. Provisions The Stockholm Conference was attended by 114 countries representing the larger part of the world s population. Representaives adopted the Declaration of Twenty-six Principles on managing the global environment which stated that to defend and improve the human environment for present and future generations has become an imperative goal for mankind. Representatives also adopted a Declaration on the Human Environment which asserted the responsibility of humanity to preserve the Earth s environment and an Action Plan for the Human Environment which took the form of recommendations for cooperation in environmental matters. The 109-point Stockholm Action Plan was written to define the parameters for future work and to mobilize a common effort for the preser vation and improvement of the human environment. At the request of the conference the United Nations was to carry out the recommendations. Thus in December 1972 the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP was created by the . General Assembly as a focus and a coordinator for future environmental activities. Impact on Resource Use The Stockholm Conference .
