Natural Resources category: 648 books

Cover of Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly...
Cover of High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources – including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber –the stakes are unusually high and peacebuilding is especially challenging. Resource-rich post-conflict countries face...
Cover of Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires...
Cover of Justice and Natural Resources

Justice and Natural Resources

Concepts, Strategies, and Applications

by Kathryn Mutz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of...
Cover of Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn...
Cover of European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2018
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019

Volume 9 of the EYIEL focusses on natural resources law understood as a special area of international economic law. In light of increasing conflicts over access to and the use of natural resources and of their impact on political, social and environmental aspects, the contributions of this volume...
Cover of Natural Resources Management

Natural Resources Management

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

The perseveration of our natural environment has become a critical objective of environmental scientists, business owners, and citizens alike. Because we depend on natural resources to survive, uncovering methods for preserving and maintaining these resources has become a focal point to ensure a high...
Cover of Nationalization, Natural Resources and International Investment Law

Nationalization, Natural Resources and International Investment Law

Contractual Relationship as a Dynamic Bargaining Process

by Junji Nakagawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

Nationalization disputes in natural resources development are among the most disputed issues of international investment law. This book offers a fresh insight into the nature of nationalization disputes in natural resources development and the rules of international investment law governing them by...
Cover of Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010

The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richness of the nation‘s natural heritage and the complexities involved in managing its resources. A follow-up to RFF‘s popular America‘s Renewable...
Cover of Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics

Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics

Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies

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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010

Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics...
Cover of Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development

Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development

An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans

by Marco Colazingari
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population. Colazingari...
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Resource and Environmental Economics

Modern Issues and Applications

by Clement A Tisdell
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009

This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources. Covering specific contemporary...
Cover of Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural Policies
by Tim Josling, David Blandford, Katharine Hassapoyannes
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019

This book examines the current and future challenges facing the food and agricultural system and their implications for policymaking at the national and international level. The growth in global population and income is expected to result in increasing demand for food and agricultural raw materials,...
Cover of Natural Resources for the 21st Century
by R. Neil Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1989

Natural Resources for the 21st Century is an in-depth assessmby natural resource experts that offers a reliable status report on water, croplands, soil, forests, wetlands, rangelands, fisheries, wildlife, and wilderness.
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