The novel also illustrates the insidious consequences of "development".
But these efforts should be joined by an awareness of the unintended consequences of development and by efforts, aimed at parents, to weaken the cultural preference for sons.
What we do know is that little attention was paid in the boom years to the social or environmental consequences of development.
The indigenista groups insist that they are acting only in their own interests and on their own initiative, and accuse the left governments of acting like the conservative governments of old, without real regard for the ecological consequences of development.
In both Europe and the United States, the surge of industry during the mid- and late 19th century was accompanied by rapid population growth, unfettered business enterprise, great speculative profits, and public failures in managing the unwanted physical consequences of development.
This association is due, in part, to a historic lack of regard for the ecological consequences of development.
Many widely-used impact evaluation designs, including randomized control trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental designs (QEDs), frequently fail to detect what are often quite serious unintended consequences of development programs.
The potential is seen as high for use of quantitative ecological methods to generate baseline environmental information as well as coarse predictions on likely consequences of development options, useful for environmental assessment.
In mid-September, 400 Ph.D.-level scientists signed a letter to President Obama calling for a "time out from offshore industrial activity [in the U.S. Arctic Ocean] to allow for a precautionary, science-based approach that better assesses the consequences of development in a rapidly changing ecosystem".
Secondly, our paper does not attempt to unravel the complicated social consequences of development and livelihood diversification.
