パソコンを新規で購入すると学生時代の古いレポートなんかが出てきてしまって作業が滞ってしますこともしばしば。今回も大学院時代のレポートがあったので目を通してたらあっというま数時間経過。そのレポートのイントロダクションを紹介。アメリカの大学院で何を勉強してきたの？と聞かれると環境学とは答えるのですが、具体的には何をやってきたのかすっからかんに近い状態ですが、これを読むとなんとなく解ってもらえるかも。学生の青臭さみたいのがあったり、今の自分では考えられないほどの英語の文章だったりしますが、軽く読み流してください。

Rapid deforestation in developing countries has become one of our major development and environmental concerns over the past decades. Tropical forests which cover about 50% of the world’s forest area and grow mainly in equatorial countries has played important role in our economy and ecosystems. With exponential population growth and cropland expansion, land transformation from forest lands has continued today and its most dramatic changes are occurring mostly in developing countries. According to World Resources Institutes report, one fifth of all tropical forest cover was lost from 1960 to 1990. The purpose of this paper is to review an interesting example of current situation in tropical forests and to present several concepts and criticism of sustainable management of tropical forests in developing countries for approaching environmentally adaptive and economically profitable development.
（過去数十年にわたり開発途上国における森林破壊は主要な開発環境問題の一つとなりつつある。世界の森林の５０％を占め、主に赤道直下の国において育つ熱帯は我々の経済やエコシステムにおいて重要な役割を果たしている。人口爆発や農耕地拡大などとも、森林からの土地の変化は今日も続いており、そのもっとも劇的な変化のほとんどは開発途上国において起きている。世界資源研究所のレポートによると、すべての熱帯雨林の５分の１が１９６０年から１９９０年の間に失われている。このペーパーの目的は、熱帯雨林における現状における興味深い例を論評するとともに、環境面で適応性があり経済的にも有益な開発に取りかかるために、開発途上国における熱帯雨林の持続可能な管理の様々なコンセプトと批判を述べることにある。）

（中略・・・ブルネイのサラワクの熱帯雨林なんかをケースしてました。）
Deforestation is most significant but very complicated development and environmental issues in developing countries. The consequence of deforestation may cause not only our ecological losses and global disasters on the earth but also economic losses and sustainable development deficiency. Many studies from different perspective has been done to solve the complex link between environment and development and to find the best way to achieve so called sustainable development. With desire to meet their life standards as in western countries, most developing countries still continue to pursue their economic growth with little regard to development in distribution, equity, health, education, and environment. On the one hand, monetary-based economic approach is to some extent attractive to policy makers as a practical way of development. On the other hand, environmentalists argue that sustainable development requires fundamental changes in ideological base, and shifts from capitalism in developed world. Also, some organizations under the United Nations who have set up various development programs in developing countries have been criticized as top down approaches based on modern economy. Such ethics in the concept of the green development has been still realized as too ideological or even just utopia idea in general, some senses in the context have gradually arises in organizations, industries, societies, communities, and individuals.

出だし好調の割にはしまりのない結論だったみたい。。。