Protecting Cuba's Environment: Efforts to Design and Implement Effective Environmental Laws and Policies in Cuba

From: Cuban Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Whittle, Daniel; Santos, Orlando Rey | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

In the early 1990s, when Cuba was in the thick of its severe economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cuban government indicated that protection of the environment and natural resources would henceforth be top policy priority. The stage was set at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 when President Fidel Castro delivered a high-profile speech embracing the concepts of environmental protection and sustainable development. As a consequence, the governme...

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