Rff Press imprint: 89 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Environmental conflict resolution (ECR) is a process of negotiation that allows stakeholders in a dispute to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement on their own terms. The tools of ECR, such as facilitation, mediation, and conflict assessment, suggest that it fits well with other ideas for reforming...
Water Policy, Tourism, and Recreation
Lessons from Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book explores the complicated interrelationships between freshwater resources and tourism and recreation. The focus is on Australia, but comparisons with the experience of other countries are also made throughout. Yet Australia has been at the forefront of conflicts over drought and water use,...
The Common Wealth in Ocean Fisheries
Some Problems of Growth and Economic Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
By examining international fishery resources from a primarily economic and political viewpoint, this book highlights the common property aspects of fisheries, physical productivity of the ocean, supply and demand, and the legal and institutional framework within which the fisheries industry operates. Originally published in 1966
Environmental Quality Analysis
Theory & Method in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book brings together state-of-the-art papers describing comprehensive approaches to residuals management and emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental problems. Originally published in 1972
Fuel Taxes and the Poor
The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve...
Governing Soil Conservation
Thirty Years of the New Decentralization
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This study reviews and evaluates the political and administrative aspects of the nationwide soil conservation effort in the United States. Originally published in 1966
by Russell Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives. Relying heavily on theoretical models of decision making, public choice postulates that people act in their individual interests...
by Ronald A. Foresta
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Theodore S. Glickman, Michael Gough
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Developed for use as a reference work in graduate and undergraduate courses as well as for researchers, policymakers, and interested laypersons, the book is a unique collection of authoritative yet accessible journal articles about risk. Drawn from a variety of disciplines including the physical and...
by R. Burnell Held, Marion Clawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book reviews and evaluates the nationwide soil conservation effort in the United States and suggests broad outlines of a future conservation program. Originally published in 1965
by Harvey S. Perloff, Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Classic economic considerations applied to the crucial urban problems of poverty, racial segregation, urban renewal, transportation, and education. Originally published in 1968
Rural Women at Work
Strategies for Development in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mining and the Environment
International Perspectives on Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
For centuries, denuded landscapes, fouled streams, and dirty air were accepted by society as part of the price that had to be paid for mineral production. Even initial environmental legislation devised by industrialized countries in the 1960s and 1970s was largely designed without mining in mind....
The Invisible Resource
Use and Regulation of the Radio Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book both describes and criticizes the regulatory policies of the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.). If accepted, these criticisms would result in a comprehensive alteration of current F.C.C. policies. Originally published in 1971