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  • Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

    by Mordechai Schechter, Robert C. Lucas ...
    Series series RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set
    First Published in 2011. This book describes the application of an advanced analytical technique, simulation modeling, (WUSM) to a significant problem in resources management. It includes ideas which have grown out of practical resource management problems that have progressed through conceptual models to operational tools and finally to application in actual public land management settings. It is ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services

    An Input-Output Approach

    by Chris T. Hendrickson, Lester B. Lave, H. Scott Matthews ...
    Environmental life cycle assessment is often thought of as cradle to grave and therefore as the most complete accounting of the environmental costs and benefits of a product or service. However, as anyone who has done an environmental life cycle assessment knows, existing tools have many problems: data is difficult to assemble and life cycle studies take months of effort. A truly comprehensive ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World

    Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law

    by Lorenzo Cotula ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Economic Law
    In the world’s developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power – from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment.The growing integration of the world economy has been accompanied by rapid and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Oil in the Environment

    Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Edited by John A. Wiens ...
    What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen years, scientists directly involved in studying the spill provide a comprehensive perspective on ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Economic Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Management

    Applications to Marine and Coastal Environments

    by Daniel Holland, James Sanchirico, Robert Johnston, Deepak Jogleka ...
    Ocean and coastal management regimes are increasingly subject to competing demands from stakeholders. Regulations must not only address fishing, recreation, and shipping, but also sand and gravel mining, gas pipelines, harbor/port development, offshore wind and tidal energy facilities, liquefied natural gas terminals, offshore aquaculture, and desalinization plants. The growing variety and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Privatisation of Biodiversity?

    New Approaches to Conservation Law

    by Colin T. Reid, Walters Nsoh ...
    Series series New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series
    In the face of the failure of the traditional 'command and control' model of environmental regulation to curb the devastating losses of biodiversity around the world, policymakers are increasingly seeking new approaches to deal with this complex interdisciplinary issue. The Privatisation of Biodiversity? provides a timely contribution to this debate by exploring the legal aspects and the scope to ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Balancing Water for Humans and Nature

    The New Approach in Ecohydrology

    by Johan Rockstrom, Malin Falkenmark ...
    Balancing Water for Humans and Nature, authored by two of the world's leading experts on water management, examines water flows - the 'blood stream' of both nature and society - in terms of the crucial links, balances, conflicts and trade-offs between human and environmental needs. The authors argue that a sustainable future depends fundamentally on our ability to manage these trade-offs and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Exploiting Turkana

    Robbing the cradle of mankind

    by Jessica Hatcher ...
    “Almost everything in Turkana is an emergency” Peter Lokoel, Deputy Govenor Turkana Modernity versus tradition; pressure on people and cultures; the potential for environmental catastrophe and private enterprises laying claim to the planet’s natural resources all challenge Turkana. This is one of the world’s “poorest” places, which just happens to sit atop what is believed to be one of the richest ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Joint Operating Agreements

    Risk Control for the Non-Operator, Second Edition

    by Eduardo G Pereira ...
    Joint operating agreements (JOAs) are well-accepted standard agreements in the oil and gas industry which regulate the relationship between the parties to a joint venture: the operator and the non-operator. Traditionally, the operator is responsible for performing operations on behalf of the consortium, while the non-operator is responsible for contributing to the financial commitments of the ... Read more

    $269.99 CAD

  • The Legal Dimensions of Oil and Gas in Iraq

    Current Reality and Future Prospects

    by Rex J. Zedalis ...
    This book is the first and only comprehensive examination of current and future legal principles designed to govern oil and gas activity in Iraq. This study provides a thorough-going review of every conceivable angle on Iraqi oil and gas law, from relevant provisions of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005; to legislative measures comprising the oil and gas framework law, the revenue sharing law, and ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD