Natural Resources category: 648 books

Cover of Public and Private in Natural Resource Governance
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

�This volume develops the rich conceptual and empirical content of public-private relationships, increasingly acknowledged as the dominant realm of natural resource governance. Ten wonderful studies from around the world illuminate opportunities for advancing the theory, analysis and effective formation...
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Register of International Rivers

Prepared by the Centre for Natural Resources, Energy and Transport of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations

by Sam Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

Register of International Rivers comprises international river and lake basins that form a substantial portion of the earth’s water resources, available for human use and consumption. This Register is prepared by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs for sessions of the Economic...
Cover of Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018

This edited volume introduces dynamic approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental diversity from different disciplinary perspectives at the interface between the natural and social sciences. It brings together research on the region’s environmental resource use and shared ecological...
Cover of Progressive Engineering Practices in Marine Resource Management
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

There is overwhelming evidence that marine resources are being overexploited throughout the world. In an effort to conserve the natural resources of the world’s oceans, new methods, technologies, and practices in fishery and marine resource management must be implemented. Progressive Engineering...
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Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries

Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution

by William L. Ascher, Robert Healy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Drawing on case studies developed over a two-year period, 1987–1989, by Fellows in the Program in International Development Policy at Duke University, including experienced representatives from developing countries, the World Bank, and scholars, the authors integrate the growing interest in environmental...
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America's Renewable Resources

Historical Trends and Current Challenges

by Kenneth D. Frederick, Roger A. Sedjo
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on...
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Social Networks and Natural Resource Management

Uncovering the Social Fabric of Environmental Governance

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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011

Social Network Analysis (SNA), a quantitative approach to the study of social relations, has recently emerged as a key tool for understanding the governance of natural resources. Bringing together contributions from a range of researchers in the field, this is the first book to fully explore the potential...
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Shale Gas

A Practitioner's Guide to Shale Gas and & Unconventional Resources, Second Edition

by Mr Vivek Bakshi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

With shale gas continuing to have a dominant impact on North American natural gas markets, unconventional natural gas now appears to be causing change in the global supply mix. The extent of this change requires the examination of a unique set of challenges that extend far beyond North America. Complex...
Cover of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Encyclopedia
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

Given the number and scope of environmental problems we face today, everyone from high school students to policy makers to concerned citizens should understand how the economy works and grasp how meltdowns—both economic and environmental in nature—can be avoided. Environmental and Natural Resource...
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Water Resources

An Integrated Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The world faces huge challenges for water as population continues to grow, as emerging economies develop and as climate change alters the global and local water cycle. There are major questions to be answered about how we supply water in a sustainable and safe manner to fulfil our needs, while at...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet

The New Geopolitics of Energy

by Michael Klare
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress...
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Natural Environments

Studies in Theoretical & Applied Analysis

by John V. Krutilla
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment. Originally published in 1973
Cover of Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015

For fifteen years, the Texas Master Naturalist program has been hugely successful, training more than 9,600 volunteers who have given almost 2.8 million hours to nature education. This dedicated corps of naturalists provides teaching, outreach, and service in their communities, promoting the appreciation...
Cover of Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017

This book is the result of a team of approximately 100 scientists and resource managers who worked together for two years to understand the effects of climatic variability and change on water resources, fisheries, forest vegetation, non-forest vegetation, wildlife, recreation, cultural resources and...
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