Environment & Resources

Originally published in 1974, Technical Change, Relative Prices, and Environmental Resource Evaluation explores the relationship between natural environmental resources and the differential implications of technological change and relative price appreciation. Smith claims that price is linked to tec..

This book draws on case studies from rural communities across the Global South to understand how previous experiences with the Green Revolution can be used to inform new agricultural developments. Its aim is to enable socially just and environmentally sustainable futures for rural communities in a r..

_x005F_x000D_ This study deals with land-based resources and the role they play in the global socio-ecological metabolic regime, both now and in the future. In particular, the controversial use of agrofuels as a solution to coming scarcity is subjected to close scrutiny...

Following the disaster at the , the public is showing increased interest in nuclear safety. This important book is based on an independent report on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disater in Japan in March 2011. The overall goal is to provide a factual assessment of the nuclear power indu..

This book advances understanding of the challenges facing public and private water supply and wastewater management by drawing on experience from around the world._x005F_x000D_ This book was based on the special issue of Water International...

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. This book shows, this creates ..

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creat..

The implications for justice and injustice have rarely been explored in reference to ecosystem services. This book argues that environmental management can neither be separated from justice concerns, as conservationists like to believe, nor is it in fundamental opposition to justice, as critics like..

The implications for justice and injustice have rarely been explored in reference to ecosystem services. This book argues that environmental management can neither be separated from justice concerns, as conservationists like to believe, nor is it in fundamental opposition to justice, as critics like..

Projecting modest future growth for both prices and harvest levels, this study, first published in 1990, provides theoretical and empirical justification for challenging the conventional wisdom that real timber prices will rise for the indefinite future. The study presents fifty-year projections of ..

The new edition of this powerful and challenging book explores these iglobal issues surrounding the production and consumption of meat and dairy animals and products, including cultural and health factors, and the implications of the likely intensification of farming for producers, consumers, animal..

Originally published in 1987, John D. Leshy presents this scholarly study of the 1872 Mining Law as a legal treatise and history of mining in the West from the point of view of mineral exploration and production. . This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and policy makers..