Natural Law category: 200 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for...
Unwelcome Harvest
Agriculture and pollution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces...
by Edward A. Ackerman, George O.G. Loff
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.
Waterlogged Wealth
Why waste the world's wet places?
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Don't drain the swamp! Man's traditional response to swamps, marshes and bogs has been to drain them. But wetlands are not wastelands. Coastal marshes are among the world's most productive ecosystems. They make many commercial fisheries possible and protect coasts from floods and storm surges. Wetlands...
Comparisons in Resource Management
Six Notable Programs in Other Countries and Their Possible U.S. Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Originally presented as public lectures in the 1961 Resources for the Future Forum on Comparative Resources Policy and Administration. Originally published in 1961
Blue Revolution
Integrated Land and Water Resources Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.' Fred Pearce, New Scientist This updated and revised edition of The Blue Revolution provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into...
The Last Oasis
Facing Water Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major...
by Kent A. Price
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.
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services
An Input-Output Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Environmental life cycle assessment is often thought of as cradle to grave and therefore as the most complete accounting of the environmental costs and benefits of a product or service. However, as anyone who has done an environmental life cycle assessment knows, existing tools have many problems:...
by Vanessa Casado-Perez
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
While water is an increasingly scarce resource, most existing methods to allocate it are neither economically nor environmentally efficient. In these circumstances, water markets offer developed countries a form of regulatory response capable of overcoming many of the shortcomings of current water...
by Marion Clawson
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.
The Future of Alaska
Economic Consequences of Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is both a discussion of key decisions Alaskans must make in coming years and a case study of problems of public finance and policy that accompany shifts in power. Originally published in 1962
Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy
Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As external forces increase the demand for land conversion, communities are increasingly open to policies that encourage conservation of farm and forest lands. This interest in conservation notwithstanding, the consequences of land-use policy and the drivers of land conversions are often unclear....
After the Green Revolution
Sustainable Agriculture for Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production...