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Investments Toward Sustainable Development

Investments Toward Sustainable Development(Texto em *.pdf disponível a pedido)
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Walter V. Reid*,†
19 MAY 2006 VOL 312 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org
Enviado por: Marcelo Gustavo Colominas [mailto:mgcolominas@hotmail.com]
domingo, 21 de maio de 2006 00:58
Sustainable development, meaning economic growth that is environmentally sound, is a
practical necessity. Environmental goals cannot be achieved without development. Poor
people will circumvent environmental restrictions in their desperation for land, food, and sustenance.
Nor can development goals be achieved and sustained without sound environmental management.
Environmental catastrophes will undermine economic life, whether in New Orleans or
Nigeria. Therefore, investing in poverty reduction is crucial for environmental policy, while investing in the environment is vital for successful poverty reduction. Yet the world underinvests in both, and richcountry and poor-country governments overlook the policy links between poverty reduction and the
environment./.../

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Investigación en Salud: Bioética

De: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) [mailto:ruglucia@paho.org]
Enviada em: terça-feira, 2 de maio de 2006 17:22
Para: BVS-EQUITY@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG
Assunto: [BVS-EQ] Investigación en Salud - Dimensión Ética

Investigación en Salud. Dimensión Ética
Fernando Lolas, Álvaro Quezada, Eduardo Rodríguez. Editores, 2006
Disponible en Español - website archivo PDF file 391p at: http://www.uchile.cl/bioetica/doc/manual_bioetica%20.pdf

El Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética (CIEB) de la Universidad de Chile, en conjunto con el Programa de Bioética de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), acaba de publicar un manual de ética de la investigación en salud con el título "Investigación en Salud. Dimensión Ética", 2006

El volumen, de 390 páginas, reúne contribuciones de miembros académicos del CIEB y de alumnos del Programa Internacional de Ética de la Investigación Biomédica y Psicosocial auspiciado por el Fogarty Internacional Center de los National Institutes of Health (USA), investigadores y académicos de más de siete países latinoamericanos.

El libro aborda tópicos de ética de la investigación, con capítulos sobre las ciencias sociales, la salud pública, la odontología, el trabajo con animales de laboratorio, los estudios multicéntricos, los conflictos de interés y la ética de la publicación científica, entre otros.
Bibliografía relevante, fuentes de referencia y listado de instituciones y recursos investigativos incrementan su utilidad.

El volumen está dirigido a investigadores, miembros de comités de ética, promotores de políticas públicas y estudiantes universitarios.

Para mayores informaciones sobre cómo adquirir ejemplares contactar:

CIEB, Universidad de Chile
Diagonal Paraguay 265, Oficina 806
Teléfonos 978 2274 / 978 2254
Fax 978 2254
E-mail: c-bio@uchile.cl
Website: http://www.uchile.cl/bioetica

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