Rff Press imprint: 89 books
Rules in the Making
A Statistical Analysis of Regulatory Agency Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Rules in the Making represents an attempt to revolutionize ways of thinking about regulatory decision-making. The book tries to show that statistical methodologies can be used to determine what factors are important in the establishment of government regulation by developing a mathematical model of...
Valuing Natural Assets
The Economics of Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Assessing natural resource damages often requires the use of nonmarket valuation techniques that were developed for use in benefit-cost analyses. Natural resource damage assessment dramatically changes the context for applying them. Two aspects of this context are especially important. First, damages...
NEPA in the Courts
A Legal Analysis of the National Environmental Policy Act
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book examines the courts' interpretation of NEPA in its first three years, defeats and successes of citizens' actions in key cases, and implication of court rulings for the act's future effectiveness. Originally published in 1973
Markets for Federal Water
Subsidies, Property Rights, and the Bureau of Reclamation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book clearly and authoritatively addresses significant issues of water policy in the western United States at a time when the growing scarcity of western water and the role of the Bureau of Reclamation in the allocation of that resource are becoming increasingly urgent issues. In this scholarly...
The World Copper Industry
Structure and Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cities and Space
The Future Use of Urban Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living. Originally published in 1963
Public Lands Politics
Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Petroleum Conservation in the United States
An Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The author develops an economic framework for analyzing state regulation of oil and gas and concludes that existing regulations fall short of assuring optimum well spacing, production rates, use of associated gas, and exploration. Originally published in 1971.
Suburban Land Conversion in the United States
An Economic and Governmental Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This comprehensive study of land use on the suburban fringe analyzes the complex relationships that underlie land conversion in the United States. It contains a detailed examination of the northwestern urban complex; some nationwide projections for the future; and a list of measures that, singularly...
Conservation and Economic Efficiency
An Approach To Materials Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Allen V. Kneese
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 Robert Repetto
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book briefly reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility in developed and developing countries. He presents a conceptual framework to examine how fertility responds to changes in the distribution of household income. The...
Water Management and Agricultural Development
A Case Study of the Cuyo Region of Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Lester B. Lave, Eugene P. Seskin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Upon competition of a ten year research project which analyzes the effect of air pollution and death rates in US cities, Lester B. Lave and Eugene P. Seskin conclude that the mortality rate in the US could shrink by seven percent with a similar if not greater decline in disease incidence if industries...