text WashingtonUS PAHO 1996 monographic xvii, 229 p. + 1 diskette Focuses on scientific and technological alternatives; economic prospects; and environmnetal, legal, political, sociocultural, and institutional consequences and implications for countries at different stages of scientific and economic development and that have different potentials and natural resource endowments. Explores whether biodiversity will become, in fact, Latin America and the Caribbean's competitive advantage. DC 3/7/00 M2LMGR 15.01.03 P187