The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues
Author: Partha Dasgupta
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780199240708

Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet "official" development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources, the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation, and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries. In this volume, part of the WIDER Program on the Economics of the Environment, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented, and reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers.

Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold
Author: Curt D. Meine
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299249034

This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States. This edition includes a new preface by author Curt Meine and an appreciation by acclaimed Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry.

American Fish and Wildlife Policy

American Fish and Wildlife Policy
Author: William Russell Mangun
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1992
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780809318216

These eleven original essays by leading wildlife management and public policy scholars deal with policy issues, management perspectives, and the public attitudes about wildlife that shape the world of the wildlife manager. Part 1 contains William R. Mangun's introductory essay "Fish and Wildlife Policy Issues" and Daniel J. Decker et al.'s "Toward a Comprehensive Paradigm of Wildlife." Ann H. Harvey's "Interagency Conflict and Coordination in Wildlife Management," Philip S. Cook and Ted T. Cable's "Developing Policy for Public Access to Private Land," and Debra A. Rose's "Implementing Endangered Species Policy" make up part 2. Part 3 consists of Cliff Hamilton's "Pursuing a New Paradigm in Funding State Fish and Wildlife Programs" and Trellis G. Green's "Use of Economics in Federal and State Fishery Allocation Decisions." The fourth part includes James J. Kennedy and Jack Ward Thomas's "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty of Wildlife Biologists in Public Natural Resource/Environmental Agencies"; Jean C. Mangun et al.'s "Nonconsumptive Wildlife-Associated Recreation in the United States"; and Barbara A. Knuth's "Natural Resource Hazards: Managing to Protect People from the Resource." In part 5, Joseph F. Coates looks to the future in "Public Policy Actors and Futures."

Habitat Ecology and Analysis

Habitat Ecology and Analysis
Author: Joseph A. Veech
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0198829280

Provides the first concise, authoritative resource that clearly presents emerging methods together and demonstrates how they can be applied to data using statistical methodology, whilst putting the decades-old pursuit of analyzing habitat into historical context.