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  • Technology in American Water Development

    by Edward A. Ackerman, George O.G. Loff ...
    Series series RFF Water Policy Set
    Technology in American Water Development is an exploratory study. This book addresses the proven technology which has influenced water development in the past, those still effective in shaping its course and the emerging technology of today. The heart of this study is in the thirty-one case descriptions selected from both the emerging and proven technology. Each case description has been treated ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Challenge of Rural Electrification

    Strategies for Developing Countries

    by Douglas F. Barnes ...
    Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities result in high capital and operating costs. Consumers are often poor, and their electricity ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Law of Energy Underground

    Understanding New Developments in Subsurface Production, Transmission, and Storage

    Edited by Donald N. Zillman, Aileen McHarg, Adrian Bradbrook, Lila Barrera-Hernandez ...
    While energy has been extracted from the ground for two centuries, recent years have seen transformative changes to how easy it is to access underground energy resources. This book investigates the key challenges and legal consequences of recent developments in the use of the subsurface as a source of energy. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the new technologies that have made this possible ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Global Environmental Governance

    Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies

    by James Gustave Speth, Peter Haas ...
    Series series Foundations Contemporary Environmental
    Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy

    Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe

    Edited by Robert J. Johnston, Stephen K. Swallow ...
    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. One of the first books to deal exclusively with the economics of rural-urban sprawl, Economics and ... Read more

    Was $64.99 USD Now $55.99 USD

  • Public and Private in Natural Resource Governance

    A False Dichotomy?

    Edited by Thomas Sikor ...
    Series series Earthscan Research Editions
    �This volume develops the rich conceptual and empirical content of public-private relationships, increasingly acknowledged as the dominant realm of natural resource governance. Ten wonderful studies from around the world illuminate opportunities for advancing the theory, analysis and effective formation of sustainable systems of resource use. The book is excellent for courses in governance and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Genes from the Wild

    Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials

    by Robert Prescott-Allen, Christine Prescott-Allen ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp production further into the north.Wild genetic resources - the heritable characteristics of wild plants and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Multiple Purpose River Development

    Studies in Applied Economic Analysis

    by John V. Krutilla, Otto Eckstein ...
    Series series RFF Water Policy Set
    This book sketches out a framework for analyzing the economic efficiency of particular river basin programs. It provides a useful cross-disciplinary perspective for economists and water resource developers-especially designed to provide working material for students in applied economics for conservation curricula. Originally published in 1958. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Allocation of Regulatory Competence in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

    by Josephine van Zeben ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
    The European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the world's largest carbon trading market. This book offers a new perspective on the EU ETS as a multi-level governance regime, in which the regulatory process is composed of three distinct 'competences' - norm setting, implementation, and enforcement. Are these competences best combined in a single regulator at one level of government or ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator

    An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area

    by V. Kerry Smith, John V. Krutilla ...
    Series series RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set
    First Published in 2011. This is Volume 10 of in a set of ten titles on Resources for the Future Library Collection Forests, Lands and Recreation. The research on which this monograph is based was stimulated by some ideas presented in George Stankey's A Strategy for the Definition and Management of Wilderness Quality and the conceptual model presented in a paper by Anthony Fisher and John Krutilla ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Energy Networks and the Law

    Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets

    Edited by Martha M. Roggenkamp, Donald N. Zillman, Lila Barrera-Hernández, Iñigo del Guayo ...
    Networks like cables and pipelines are essential for a functioning energy market. This book provides a clear and insightful overview of the legal challenges this poses in the modern world. The construction and use of these networks depends on developments in technology, policies, and legal regulation. Recently, the energy sector has been faced with considerable challenges and changes. Energy ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Managing Natural Wealth

    Environment and Development in Malaysia

    by Jeffrey R. Vincent, Rozali Mohamed Ali ...
    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 depletion of natural resources, and the emergence of serious problems with pollution. Managing ... Read more

    $32.99 USD