Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Real Estate - General

During the last three decades, corporations allied with scientists and universities, national and regional governments, and international financial institutions have, through a variety of mechanisms associated with neo-liberal globalization, acted to dispossess large proportions of the world's population of their commons' resources and enclose them for profit making. In response, throughout the global South and in the cities of the global North, large numbers of people have formed movements to defend the commons in all their variety. The idea of the commons has thus emerged as a global...

Sponsored by the Task Committee on State Water Resources Planning Assessment of the Water Resources Planning Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE.

This report explores features and trends in state water planning since 1986. Historically, the federal government was the planner for large-scale water resource development, but now the states are the major players in this process. This shift is a result of several events, such as: devolution of federal water programs, emergence of a sustained focus on environmental protection and restoration, elimination of...

Proceedings of Coastlines of Western Africa, part of Coastal Zone '93, the Eighth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management. held in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19-23, 1993. Part of the Coastlines of the World series.

This collection of 30 papers reviews multidisciplinary aspects of coastal management in western Africa. Topics include environmental considerations, engineering, and science; data gathering and monitoring; legal, regulatory, and political aspects; planning, conservation, and development; and public information and citizen participation.

This volume provides...

Report from America's Wetland Technical Summit, held New Orleans, Louisiana, October 16-17, 2003.

Louisiana's coastal wetlands represent a significant natural and economic resource for the state and the nation but have been disappearing at a rate of 25 to 35 square miles each year. In the past 50 years, more than 1,500 square miles have been lost. The wetlands contain 95% of all marine species in the Gulf of Mexico, 30% of the nation's fisheries, and one of the largest habitats in the world for migratory waterfowl. More than 25% of all oil and gas used in the United States...