Environmental management

This book offers a cutting-edge overview of mobility, mobility justice and social justice, with contributions from a broad range of leading scholars.

This book offers a cutting-edge overview of mobility, mobility justice and social justice, with contributions from a broad range of leading scholars.

First published in 1997, this volume examines the urban environments of Accra (Ghana), Harare (Zimbabwe) and Gaborone (Botswana).

First published in 1997, this volume examines the urban environments of Accra (Ghana), Harare (Zimbabwe) and Gaborone (Botswana).

This Handbook provides an essential guide to the study of resources and their role in socio-environmental change.

This Handbook provides an essential guide to the study of resources and their role in socio-environmental change.

Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality.

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.

Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet.

Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet.

The book is meant to improve our understanding of sustainable development of production and consumption.

This book is designed to show how ecotourism theory can be put into practice by exploring innovation, program applications, and research-supported case studies in ecotourism.

This book is designed to show how ecotourism theory can be put into practice by exploring innovation, program applications, and research-supported case studies in ecotourism.

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.

The aim of the present volume is to review the effects of human activity on physical environment processes, and this is justified not only as a complement to the approach taken by G.

This comprehensive collection of data and theory provides an essential resource base for intelligent ocean-management decisions.

A collection of revisions of papers presented at the conference held June 26-29, 1977, and sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association and the Denver Research Institute.

The Sierra Club's Fourteenth Biennial Wilderness Conference was cosponsored by the National Audubon Society, with over 100 organizations participating.

Eminent economists and development experts focus on a number of concerns that are currently the major preoccupation of development economists, policymakers, and practitioners.

An outgrowth of the recognition that the varieties of impact assessment have much in common and that the common elements are a sound basis for an intellectual framework, this book incorporates contributions from leading practitioners of technology, environmental, and social impact assessment.

In this book, the authors integrate various perspectives on the evaluation of natural resources in arid and semiarid zones, analyze development options, and discuss systems analysis tools that could be important for the management of technology.

Until recently, there has been general agreement that improvement and preservation of water quality, though costly, provided economic and social benefits that outweighed the expense.

Much of the improvement in material living standards in the Third World is attributable to the exploitation of nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels and metallic ores, and to the exploitation of renewable resource systems at rates that cannot be sustained.

Georges Bank, off the coast of New England, has for years been known as one of the most productive of the world's fisheries.

In our critical attempts to solve the pressing current problems of a limited water supply, it is essential that we act always with a global view to the future.

Although there is in the United States a clear national consensus supporting the protection of the environment, advocates often profoundly disagree about the policies best designed to achieve this end.

Among the problems of the modern fisheries industry is the persistent trend toward the severe depletion of fish stocks, resulting in low catch rates and poor economic returns, along with unnecessary accumulations of capital investments.

This book examines the process of policymaking in situations in which the interests, values, and rights of the various actors conflict with one another and suggest contradictory courses of action.

The rapid changes in the former Soviet Union have rendered most pre-1992 works on its environment obsolete.

This book is an outcome of the Visual Values Workshop in 1982.

Based on the proceedings of the First National Wilderness Management Workshop, this book is designed to serve as a guide to understanding and implementing the 1964 Wilderness Act.

As Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) become increasingly important in the policymaking process, it is vital that they be as complete and accurate as possible.

Addressing the problem of the high cost of agricultural development in tropical regions, this book summarizes the environmental concerns associated with tropical agriculture.

Successful natural resource administration demands the well-exercised ability to deal with the interests of many actors--including the public and wildlife--in a balanced, constructive way.

This volume is a collection of seventeen essays, offering in-depth and comparative studies of areas faced with environmental crisis.

An examination of culture, conflict and communication in a rural/urban setting.

This is a reference book on the classification, distribution, ecology and control of poisonous and aggressively invasive plant species on rangeland.

This book examines the U.

This book reports on a study that assessed the effectiveness of irrigation technologies and management practices in the Third World.

First published in 1988.

The 1968-1974 drought in the Sahel was an unprecedented catastrophe for the region, causing extensive crop failures, loss of human and animal populations, political instability, and the destruction of social and cultural structures.

In this book, the authors provides an up-to-date assessment of research on human interactions with natural resource systems.

Volume 111 of AAAS selected symposium, American Association of the Advancement of Science.

This book of selected research papers, originally presented at the "e;Symposium of Fragile Lands of Latin America-The Search for Sustainable Uses,"e; presents some fresh evidence of the viability of a few "e;non-conventional"e; strategies for natural resource development and management.

This book provides descriptive information on fisheries and nutrition, and outlines actions that could be taken to enhance the contribution of fisheries to the alleviation of malnutrition.

This book presents case studies highlighting social, economic, political, and biological dimensions of environmental degradation in the Third World.

The 1987-89 drought was a signal event in the evolving interrelationshipsamong climate, natural resources management, technology,and society in the United States.