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Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future (9th Edition) Daniel D. Chiras , John P. Reganold , and Oliver S. Owen Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Sustainable Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books General | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Geology | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Science | Subjects | Books Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Geology | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Outdoors & Nature | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: Map Use & Analysis Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) The Elusive Eden: A New History of California The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century Wildlife Ecology and Management (5th Edition) ASIN: 0131458329

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Average customer rating: The Economic Approach to Environmental and Natural Resources

Economic Approach to Environment and Natural Resources (with Printed Access Card) James R. Kahn Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Natural Resources | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books General | Business & Finance | New & Used Textbooks | Stores | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books General | Books on CD | Audiobooks | Formats | Books Similar Items: Environmental Economics: Theory, Application, and Policy Economics and the Environment Environmental Policy And Politics Forest Ecology, Third Edition Environmental Economics ASIN: 0030314542

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The Economic Approach to Environmental and Natural Resources.......2000-11-27

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Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Frank Ward Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books | Conservation | Desertification | Ecology | Environmental Science | Natural Disasters | Recycling | Water Supply | Weather General | Natural Resources | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books General | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Public Policy | Political Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Arts & Photography | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Nonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Outdoors & Nature | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books ASIN: 013113163X

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Average customer rating: A great guide for people who want to roll up their sleeves

A Field Guide to Conservation Finance Story Clark Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Sustainable Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books | Banks & Banking | Corporate Finance | Foreign Exchange | Inflation | Interest General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books Living on the Land | Ecology | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books | Architecture | Hunting & Fishing General | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Finance | Accounting & Finance | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Chemistry | Environmental | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business The New Economy of Nature: The Quest To Make Conservation Profitable Buying Nature: The Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy, 1780-2004 (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) Land Conservation Financing ASIN: 1597260606

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A great guide for people who want to roll up their sleeves.......2007-04-05

Average customer rating: Essential Edition to the Literature It's a great start.... Not Just Capitalism -- Natural Capitalism Mixed bag of stories The Best New Approach to Conservation

The New Economy of Nature Gretchen Daily , and Katherine Ellison Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Sustainable Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books Living on the Land | Ecology | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books | Architecture | Hunting & Fishing General | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Natural Resources | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books Similar Items: Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services Nature's Services: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, second edition (Yale Nota Bene) ASIN: 1559639458

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Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay, and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just that question, as the increasing scarcity of natural resources becomes a tangible threat to our own lives and our hopes for our children. The New Economy of Nature brings together Gretchen Daily, one of the world's leading ecologists, with Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, to offer an engaging and informative look at a new "new economy" - a system recognizing the economic value of natural systems and the potential profits in protecting them.

Through engaging stories from around the world, the authors introduce readers to a diverse group of people who are pioneering new approaches to conservation. We meet Adam Davis, an American business executive who dreams of establishing a market for buying and selling "ecosystem service units;" John Wamsley, a former math professor in Australia who has found a way to play the stock market and protect native species at the same time; and Dan Janzen, a biologist working in Costa Rica who devised a controversial plan to sell a conservation area's natural waste-disposal services to a local orange juice producer. Readers also visit the Catskill Mountains, where the City of New York purchased undeveloped land instead of building an expensive new water treatment facility; and King County, Washington, where county executive Ron Sims has dedicated himself to finding ways of "making the market move" to protect the county's remaining open space.

Daily and Ellison describe the dynamic interplay of science, economics, business, and politics that is involved in establishing these new approaches and examine what will be needed to create successful models and lasting institutions for conservation. The New Economy of Nature presents a fundamentally new way of thinking about the environment and about the economy, and with its fascinating portraits of charismatic pioneers, it is as entertaining as it is informative.

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Essential Edition to the Literature.......2003-07-30

It's a great start...........2003-01-30

I liked the piece on Napa California west of us which has for decades suffered when the massive winter rains come thru and I wanted to read of there move toward restricting building on what is known as a flood plain, without hurting the economy.

Likewise in Chapter six, page 125 King County Washington and how people from distinctly different business backgrounds, blue colour to white collar corporate (Weyerhaeuser) worked together to protect the Snoqualmie Falls area, which having been there in person, is a majestic place that would have been ruined had big business been allowed to build there.

But it is the way the authors have made such an effort to think outside the American box, and have shown success stories from all over the world, where businesses have or are becoming enlightened and are discovering that being environmentally sound means money and success.

But as they note on page 232 "There is no single answer to the worlds environmental dilemmas, and the progress to date toward capturing the economic value of environmental services has been so limited as to be almost symbolic. Still, what has happened so far illustrates an approach with great scope for improving the world."

Not Just Capitalism -- Natural Capitalism.......2002-11-05

The idea is not simply that capitalism can save the world, but that well-directed, well-informed market forces will finally come to understand that beneath the bottom line of capitalism as currently practiced, there's a much more critical bottom line -- a primordial capitalism -- the living sytems of the planet. The economy of nature provides real wealth and natural wisdom without dysfunctional spinoffs like pollution, cancer, habitat destruction... If we take care of that living economy, it will take care of us.

This is an important book, because it gives us real-world examples of how nature underlies the market economy. We need this book to be used in college and high school classrooms, discussion groups,corporate retreats, and solitary late-night soul searches. Its message is critical to the continued prosperity of life as we know it.

Mixed bag of stories.......2002-10-07

But even among what I count as the more hopeful stories, precious little of the projects' success could be attributable to capital. Probably the best among them concerned the organic farming movement, which includes related efforts to preserve biodiveristy and substitute natural predatory insects for pesticides. As everyone knows, this is a movement that has been defined by its explicit rejection of standard corporate practices, yet the authors sheepishly do little to point this out. Another excellent chapter focused on the efforts of a dedicated scientist to preserve rainforest in Costa Rica. But while the scientist helped broker a deal from an orange juice manufacturer to dump its waste in the rainforest to promote regrowth in damaged areas, it seemed clear that the Costa Rican government played a much larger role in the cause of preservation that the manufacturer ever did. And of course the watershed protection project for the New York City area was spearheaded by sometimes belligerent public interest groups and the local government over significant opposition from private-property forces.

Among the less dubious stories: an Australian who is building Jurassic Park-style nature enclaves in hopes of attracting tourist dollars; an ex-Internet entrepreneur who hopes to cash in big by creating an overnight market for the buying and selling of the carbon-storing capacity of forests; and a political "deal maker" skilled in both obtaining and extracting concessions from developers in the hopes of merely slowing development. The market solutions highlighted in these and other stories point to the self-evident fragility of these projects to sustain themselves in the long run.

In an unitentionally humorous part of the book, the authors recount a think-tank exercise in which EVERYONE participating in the pretend game of land stewardship clear-cut their forest assets in the final round of play in order to maximize their returns. My criticism is not that there isn't some merit in what the protagonists of these stories are doing -- they appear to be remarkable individuals who may simply be making the best of their bad situations -- but if the world's future is dependent on the success of these individuals in coming up with market solutions to the world's environmental problems, then may God help us all.

In the end, this book fails to make a persuasive argument that capitalism can save the environment. There is some value to the case studies presented by the authors, especially where victories were achieved through democratic actions -- but this latter point was unfortunately down-played through much of the book in favor of the capitalist theme. But I think that contrary to the author's opinion, it seems obvious that the environment will continue to be exploited as long as for-profit capitalism rules the day. Therefore, I think that readers who want real answers to today's burgeoning environmental crisis will not find them in this book.

The Best New Approach to Conservation.......2002-10-05

Average customer rating: Highly Recommended for Understanding Environmental Issues Letters from Students Highly Recommended for Students of Environmental Issues

Economics and the Environment Eban S. Goodstein Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Sustainable Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Natural Resources | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Outdoors & Nature | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: The Economic Approach to Environmental and Natural Resources (Dryden Press Series in Economics) Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Fifth Edition Environmental Economics The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest Leading Issues in Economic Development ASIN: 0471470546

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Highly Recommended for Understanding Environmental Issues.......2004-05-19

To help readers understand the far-reaching implications of environmental and resource economics, this text examines a broad range of topics in environmental economics. It presents "standard analysis," as well as in-depth treatment of important issues at the cutting edge of environmental policy debates.

The focus is on equipping readers with the tools necessary to analyze current environmental issues as an economist would.

In keeping with the philosophy of incorporating examples directly in the text, this book begins with a detailed case study of a "big issue" with which many students are familiar-global warming.

Other issues covered in a rigorous and comprehensive manner include the property-rights basis of environmental problems, benefit estimation techniques and benefit-cost analysis, incentive-based regulation, and sustainable resource use.

The Second Edition retains the three interrelated advantages of its predecessor-(1) broad content, (2) pedagogical clarity, and (3) timely, well-integrated examples-while incorporating major reorganizations, additions and updates aimed at enhancing learning and reflecting the most up-to-date information available.

Following the Introduction, this text centres around four focussed questions:

Part I: How Much Pollution is Enough? Part II: Is Government Up to the Job? Part III: How Can We Do Better? Part IV: Can We Resolve Global Issues?

Using these questions as guidelines, author Eban S. Goodstein develops the economic tools students need to explore solutions to environmental problems. In the process, the book covers a wealth of current examples, from global warming, to population growth, to urban air pollution and energy policy, to chemical regulation and landfill siting.

Part V covers four advanced topics: The Importance of Being Convex, Imperfect Regulation in an Uncertain World, Input-Output Models and Life-Cycle Analysis and Incentive-Compatible Regulation.

As this text addresses important questions raised in contemporary (and future) society and introduces readers to the economist's view of some solutions, it is highly recommended for students taking courses in environment management, environmental and resource economics, and environmental studies. Ideally, students would have undertaken a course in microeconomics or intermediate microeconomics as a prerequisite.

Reviewed by Azlan Adnan. Formerly a Research Officer with the Malaysian Timber Council's London office and Business Development Manager with KPMG's Kuala Lumpur office, Azlan holds a Master's degree in International Business and Management from the Westminster Business School.

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Letters from Students.......2000-06-01

To: eban@lclark.edu Subject: student evaluations of your text Eban, I'm the fellow who asked you about the double dividend issue last spring, when I was using your text in my class on environmental economics. As we both gear up for next semester, I thought I'd send you the results of my request, during that course last spring, for (anonymous) evaluation of the text on the part of my students. (I survey most of my classes this way, though never with this kind of result; on the contrary, students are often rather cutting.) I'm including every word from every student. (1) I like this book. I think it has good chapter layouts and is great with examples. The examples also make the text more interesting to read. (2) I like the text. I think it is very straightforward and clear. It does a very good job of organizing what is important and what is needed to understand some of the issues. (3) Goodstein's text, in my opinion, is valuable. It moves away from the strict "Friedman approach." It shows different sides of the arguments presented and is fairly detailed. (4) Goodstein's book is excellent, one of the best textbooks I used in college. Its best attribute is the many examples given, they also help in the learning process. (5) Excellent book. Well written and uses great examples. He ties in human with the well descriptive topics. [This sentence was hard to read.]

(6) Goodstein's text has been very well written and easy to use. (7) Goodstein does a good job of writing this text. Sometimes it is a bit dry and the chapters take a long time to read. Overall, though, this is a good text for this class and a good learning tool. (8) I think the Goodstein text does a pretty good job of writing at a level that we can interpret. I also like his summaries of the chapters, and pointing out of important topics in each section. (9) Good book. Interesting to read. (10) Goodstein is good at getting his point across. It seems to me that much in his book is repetitive, though. It is difficult though to talk about this subject without being repetitive. Overall Goodstein does [a] good job, especially with examples. (11) Goodstein as such has been a good selection for the text. He explains a lot of new material in a manner geared towards his primary audience, the students. I think he has done a good job. (12) The Goodstein book is excellent, in my opinion. It seems very unbiased, especially considering the possibilities of either being slanted toward the environment or the other way [sic]. It presents a lot of information without being too technical and overwhelming those of us who haven't had much economics with graphs and other "economic tools." And yes, I liked it too. (signed) Nick Gomersall

_________________________________________________________ C.N.Gomersall gomersni@luther.edu Associate Professor of Economics Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, U.S.A.

Highly Recommended for Students of Environmental Issues.......2000-01-12

How much pollution is too much? What role should government play in regulating the environment? Will "clean technology" lay the foundation for a sustainable future? To help students understand the far-reaching implications of environmental and resource economics, this text examines a broad range of topics in environmental economics. It presents "standard analysis," as well as in-depth treatment of important issues at the cutting edge of environmental policy debates. The focus is on equipping students with the tools necessary to analyze current environmental issues as an economist would.

In keeping with the philosophy of incorporating examples directly in the text, this book begins with a detailed case study of a "big issue" with which many students are familiar-global warming. Other issues covered in a rigorous and comprehensive manner include the property-rights basis of environmental problems, benefit estimation techniques and benefit-cost analysis, incentive-based regulation, and sustainable resource use.

The Second Edition retains the three interrelated advantages of its predecessor-(1) broad content, (2) pedagogical clarity, and (3) timely, well-integrated examples-while incorporating major reorganizations, additions and updates aimed at enhancing learning and reflecting the most up-to-date information available. Following the Introduction, this text centres around four focussed questions:

Part I: How Much Pollution is Enough? Part II: Is Government Up to the Job? Part III: How Can We Do Better? Part IV: Can We Resolve Global Issues?

Using these questions as guidelines, the author develops the economic tools students need to explore solutions to environmental problems. In the process, the book covers a wealth of current examples, from global warming, to population growth, to urban air pollution and energy policy, to chemical regulation and landfill siting.

Part V covers four advanced topics: The Importance of Being Convex, Imperfect Regulation in an Uncertain World, Input-Output Models and Life-Cycle Analysis and Incentive-Compatible Regulation.

As this text addresses important questions raised in contemporary (and future) society and introduces readers to the economist's view of some solutions, it is highly recommended for students taking courses in environment management, environmental and resource economics, and environmental studies. Ideally, students would have undertaken a course in microeconomics or intermediate microeconomics as a prerequisite.

Formerly a Research Officer with the Malaysian Timber Council's London office and Business Development Manager with KPMG's Kuala Lumpur office, Azlan Adnan is currently Managing Partner of Azlan & Koh Knowledge and Professional Management Group, an education and management consulting practice based in Kota Kinabalu. He holds a Master's degree in International Business and Management from the Westminster Business School.

Average customer rating: Not quite enough ground gained here The rebirth of conservation

Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground Eric T. Freyfogle Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Sustainable Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Ethics & Morality | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books All Deals | Blowout Books | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Blowout Books | Stores | Books Nonfiction | Blowout Books | Stores | Books Outdoors & Nature | Blowout Books | Stores | Books Science | Blowout Books | Stores | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Nonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Outdoors & Nature | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: The Land We Share: Private Property And The Common Good The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope (Culture of the Land) Bounded People, Boundless Lands: Envisioning A New Land Ethic ASIN: 0300110405

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Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists and environmentalists haven’t done their intellectual homework, he contends, and they have failed to offer an understandable, compelling vision of healthy lands and healthy human communities.
Freyfogle explores why the conservation movement has responded ineffectually to the many cultural and economic criticisms leveled against it. He addresses the meaning of good land use, describes the many shortcomings of “sustainability,” and outlines six key tasks that the cause must address. Among these is the crafting of an overall goal and a vision of responsible private ownership. The book concludes with a stirring message that situates conservation within America’s story of itself and with an extensive annotated bibliography of conservation’s most valuable voices and texts—important information for readers prepared to take conservation more seriously.

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Not quite enough ground gained here.......2006-12-11

If you have been following Eric Freyfogle's work, then you should probably get this book. It builds on his ongoing conversation about "land health" and our own responsibility. But it is not nearly as finely crafted as some of his earlier work--particularly "The Land We Share". Get that book first if you haven't read Freyfogle yet. In this book, Freyfogle continues to build on Leopold and Berry in searching for a coherent story for conservation and land health. Two weak chapters in my opinion mar this otherwise fine work. Chapter 2 is a critique of what Freyfogle calls the "tend the garden" mentality, which he appears to link to the "wise-use" and property rights movements. There are some merits to his arguments, but he takes it a bit too far. Leopold's work very much recognized the critical and unavoidable role of humans for building healthy land. See "Gardeners of Eden", by Dan Dagget, for what I would consider a Leopoldian use of the garden metaphor about using nature to heal the earth. Freyfogle's other mistep is an attack on the concept of sustainability. He considers the idea to be too broad to be useful, and too amenable to being corrupted by a "whatever works" kind of ethic. At one point he even criticizes the powerful "triple bottom line" of economy, ecology, and community. What could be closer to a real land health ethic than integration of those three areas?
These two digressions aside, the book is a stimulating read, and if you are part of this conversation or are following it, then you need to read this book. I don't think it is quite the full expression of the land ethic, but it moves us in that direction.
A section of "Conservations Central Readings" at the end is almost worth the price of the book (well--maybe the price when it comes out in paperback, anyway!).

The rebirth of conservation.......2006-05-17

This book takes us to the fundamentals of conservation and what we need to get good land use that promotes healthy lands and people. Freyfogle tells us that conservation needs an overall goal, it needs new ideas of private property, it needs new mechanisms for making collective decisions. Those are the top three tasks he outlines. And, he argues persuasively, it will take changes at the level of cultural attitudes and values to bring them about. Without fulfilling these three top tasks, society will not be able to solve environmental and land use problems, including agricultural desertification, suburban sprawl, biodiversity loss, air and water pollution and lots of other conservation challenges. This book is a must read for anyone calling himself or herself a conservationist or who is interested in learning more about becoming one. It points the way to the opening of a new chapter in American land use and a new more positive vision for conservation. And it's nicely written to boot.

Average customer rating: Quick review Superb reference

World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide To Impacts And Practices Jason Clay Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Agricultural | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books Sustainable Agriculture | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books Living on the Land | Ecology | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books | Architecture | Hunting & Fishing General | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Sustainable Agriculture | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis Outgrowing The Earth Ecoagriculture: Strategies To Feed The World And Save Wild Biodiversity The Fatal Harvest Reader The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World ASIN: 1559633700

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World Agriculture and the Environment presents a unique assessment of agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with prescriptions for increasing efficiency and reducing damage to natural systems. Drawing on his extensive travel and research in agricultural regions around the world, and employing statistics from a range of authoritative sources including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the author examines twenty of the world’s major crops, including beef, coffee, corn, rice, rubber, shrimp, sorghum, tea, and tobacco. For each crop, he offers comparative information including:

• a “fast facts” overview section that summarizes key data for the crop
• main producing and consuming countries
• main types of production
• market trend information and market chain analyses
• major environmental impacts
• management strategies and best practices
• key contacts and references

With maps of major commodity production areas worldwide, the book represents the first truly global portrait of agricultural production patterns and environmental impacts.

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Quick review.......2006-03-01

World Agriculture and Environment in my opinion is a very interestig book, in which you can find, besides the basic information of agricultural production, techniques that help to reduce damage to natural systems, and also this book gives important evaluations of modern agriculture and its failure.

Superb reference.......2004-05-18

This is a superb and unique reference. It provides an incredible amount of detail on crops that enter world trade, and their impact on the environment.
The very best thing about this book is that it is not strident and does not blatantly advocate a particular political agenda. It is written in a scientific, objective tone that makes it far more convincing than the rhetorical works. Only when he comes to tobacco (a crop that ruins the environment AND then ruins the consumers) does he use a few value-laden words!
The reader is struck by what a mess the world is in, and how easily we could fix a lot of that. The book provides enormous detail on soil erosion, chemical use, biodiversity reduction, and the rest of our woes, but it presents equal detail on how to prevent those problems. Only a few crops (notably cotton, salmon, chocolate) would be hard to manage well.
Two social themes stand out: first, the very rapid concentration of commodity trade in the hands of a very few firms; second, the degree to which governments subsidize production-at-any-cost as opposed to production-with-environmental-protection. (Subsidizing includes nonlegal subsidies, such as letting the rich get away with breaking environmental laws and dumping huge costs on poorer neighbors.) One cannot escape the conclusion that changing this subsidy structure would fix most of the damage, worldwide.
Environmentalists should think more about subsidies!
Meanwhile, what can a concerned reader do? The book tells how to seek out shade-grown coffee, responsibly raised beef and paper, and so on. It is much harder, at least in the US, to find decently-produced soybeans or corn or wheat, but you can do it. Cotton is a special problem, and the alternatives to it are mostly worse. The hemp advocates will be vocal!
We are in such a mess, and it would be so easy to do so much.... This is not a time to lose hope or give up. By providing the big picture, this book should make every concerned citizen stop and think. The few errors I could spot in the book are trivial ones.
This is an absolute must-read and must-have for anyone who works on problems of production and environment or on problems of world food supply and health.

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Mediated Modeling: A System Dynamics Approach To Environmental Consensus Building Marjan van den Belt Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Manager's Guides to Computing | Business & Culture | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Modeling & Simulation | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Regional Planning | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Public Policy | Political Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Natural Resources | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books Planning & Management | Environmental | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Computers & Internet | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Nonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Outdoors & Nature | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: Landscape Simulation Modeling:: A Spatially Explicit, Dynamic Approach (Modeling Dynamic Systems) Earth System Analysis for Sustainability (Dahlem Workshop Reports) Modeling the Environment: An Introduction To System Dynamics Modeling Of Environmental Systems Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach (RFF Press) Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update ASIN: 155963961X

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Natural Resources: Ecology, Economics, and Policy (2nd Edition) Jerry L. Holechek , Richard A. Cole , James T. Fisher , and Raul Valdez Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Public Policy | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Ecology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books General | Natural Resources | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books General | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books General | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Ecology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Nonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Outdoors & Nature | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy (RFF Press) Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict With a New Introduction by the Author ASIN: 0130933880

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Unlike other natural resource management volumes that focus solely on the ecological aspects of resources—and with an overly pessimistic view of the future—this volume explores natural resource management in context in a functional, applied framework by integrating ecology, history, planning, economics, and policy into coverage of each natural resource, and by providing a balanced, guarded optimistic view of the most current research and technology's capability to overcome natural resource problems. Exceptionally straightforward and readable, it is easily accessible to readers with limited background in ecology, biology, and economics. The volume provides an overview of natural resources, and a complete analysis of management foundations, air, water, and land resources, the land-based renewable resources, the wild living resources, the mineral and energy resources, plus an integration of natural resources management. For foresters, wildlife biologists, geologists, range managers, and environmental scientists.

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1. No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
2. No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
3. Organization Theory and Design
4. Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation (Human Dimensions of Global Change series)
5. Practical Business Ethics
6. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (The University Center for Human Values Series)
7. Principles of Corporate Finance + Student CD + Ethics in Finance PowerWeb + Standard and Poor's (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Est)
8. Professionalism in Health Care: A Primer for Career Success (2nd Edition) (PROFESSIONALISM IN HEALTH CARE)
9. Proven Strategies in Competitive Intelligence: Lessons from the Trenches
10. Rich Dad's Advisors®: The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins: The Invisible Code of Honor That Takes Ordinary People and Turns Them Into a Championship Team (Rich Dad's Advisors)

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