This edited work offers the first systematic, multidisciplinary assessment of the challenges involved in managing the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE), an area of the Rocky Mountains that includes northwestern Montana, southwestern Alberta, and southeastern British Columbia.
This edited work offers the first systematic, multidisciplinary assessment of the challenges involved in managing the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem...
Nearly one in six Americans lives in Megalopolis, an area of the northeastern United States along the I-95 corridor that includes the cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Liquid City is the first book to examine the major changes that have taken place in this Main Street of the Nation over the last half century. Boston-to-Washington corridor. His seminal book, Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States, described the social, economic, and demographic characteristics of one of the largest city regions in the world. John Rennie Short...
Nearly one in six Americans lives in Megalopolis, an area of the northeastern United States along the I-95 corridor that includes the cities of Washin...
The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider safety as a factor in design and engineering. Through more than a dozen practical examples from the author�s experience in nuclear power, aerospace, and other potentially hazardous facilities, Choosing Safety is the first book to bring together probabilistic risk assessment and decision analysis using real case studies. For managers, project leaders, engineers, scientists, and interested students, Michael V. Frank focuses on methods for...
The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider sa...
As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada for nearly 20 years. Dubbed the 'Softwood Lumber War, ' the conflict enveloped politicians and business leaders on both sides of the border and placed strains on the historically close economic and political relations between the two countries. This book is an unprecedentedly detailed evaluation of how the conflict began and how it was sustained for such a long period of time. The book considers the implications that may follow from the 2006 agreement between the...
As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada for nearly 20 years. D...
Extending the Cure provides an objective evaluation of a number of policies to encourage patients, health care providers, and managed care organizations to make better use of existing antibiotics and to give pharmaceutical firms greater incentives to both develop new antibiotics and care about resistance to existing drugs.
Extending the Cure provides an objective evaluation of a number of policies to encourage patients, health care providers, and managed care organizatio...
Addresses the issues of water policy in the western United States at a time when the growing scarcity of western water and the role of the Bureau of Reclamation in the allocation of that resource are becoming increasingly urgent issues. This title traces the origins of the reclamation idea and the expansion of subsidies in the program since 1902.
Addresses the issues of water policy in the western United States at a time when the growing scarcity of western water and the role of the Bureau of R...
In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. Taming the Anarchy is about the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control. It is about both the massive...
In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest c...
The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richness of the nation�s natural heritage and the complexities involved in managing its resources. A follow-up to RFF�s popular America�s Renewable Resources (1990), Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America updates readers about the current challenges involved in managing America�s natural resources, especially in light of the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ecosystem approaches to management. Written to...
The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richn...
The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richness of the nation�s natural heritage and the complexities involved in managing its resources. A follow-up to RFF�s popular America�s Renewable Resources (1990), Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America updates readers about the current challenges involved in managing America�s natural resources, especially in light of the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ecosystem approaches to management. Written to...
The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richn...
Integrates the work of 18 leading scholars to focus on two complex interdependencies - one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the other to urban and rural communities and their economies. This book explores the politics of place spatial economics, and prospects for linking rural and environmental governance.
Integrates the work of 18 leading scholars to focus on two complex interdependencies - one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the othe...
