Natural Resources category: 648 books
Are We Running Out?
The Sustainability of the World's Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Do we have the resources to produce enough food for an expected world population of over 9 billion in 2050? Are modern agricultural practices sustainable? Do we have enough fresh water? What do we understand about climate change? Can we decarbonize the world economy? Can we save the oceans? Are genetically...
Capturing the Commons
Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first...
Governing International Watercourses
River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all River Basin Organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents. The detailed case studies are...
Sustainable Future for Human Security
Environment and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book focuses on the environmental components of sustainability, including aspects of resourcing and the environmental impacts of human societies. Marine and tropical forest ecosystems, food security and other natural resources, as well as technologies for the environmental control of societal...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "water wars," shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building. Indeed, water management plays a singularly important role in rebuilding trust...
Sharing Power
A Global Guide to Collaborative Management of Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The collaborative or �co�-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective understanding and actions to bring about negotiated agreements on roles, rights and responsibilities for decentralized...
Tapping the Source
Inside UF's Water Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Florida has 51,858 miles of rivers and streams,...
by Dr. John G. Ingersoll
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
The production of biomethane, the renewable version of natural gas, from the biological conversion of organic matter at an industrial scale is fast advancing in several areas of the world. A confluence of factors is fueling the rapid expansion: cost-reducing continuous advances in the technology that...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Students, university faculty, and wildlife professionals now have an indispensable book that provides a full and accurate account of natural resource policy and law as it relates to wildlife in North America and beyond. The comprehensive text begins with an in-depth examination of wildlife policy...
Managing Natural Wealth
Environment and Development in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The remarkably rich natural environment of Malaysia attracts the interest of both industry and the environmental community. Managing Natural Wealth analyzes major natural resource and environmental policy issues in the country during the 1970s and 1980s-a period of profound socioeconomic change, rapid...
Global Resource Scarcity
Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The purpose of this paper is examine the notion of tenure in connection with water resources and to explore whether the concept of water tenure has the potential to make a useful contribution towards resolving the world’s water resources challenges. It seeks to provide answers to the following questions:...
Development Through Bricolage
Rethinking Institutions for Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water User Associations, Irrigation Committees, Forest Management Councils) not work as planners intended?...
Infrastructure
The Social Value of Shared Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future...