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  • Saving Water in a Desert City

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book was stimulated by and sets out to analyse a political battle over water pricing by a municipal system. Originally published in 1984, this title provides improved methods for demand function estimation where block rates are involved, suggests procedures for rational pricing of municipal water, and explains how politics can dominate when real decisions are made. Due to the additional ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Divided Waters

    Bridging the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Among all natural resource and environmental problems between the United States and Mexico, water has been the most troublesome, with ongoing historic contests over water supply becoming superseded by new controversies over water quality. Divided Waters analyzes the politics of water management along the U.S.-Mexico border, using the case of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora as a window on the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • A Policy Approach to Political Representation

    Lessons from the Four Corners States

    Series series RFF Policy and Governance Set
    Analyzes the extent to which the voters of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah are concerned about problems associated with development and the extent to which state senators respond to voters' concerns.Originally published in 1980 ... Read more

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    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

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    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to drop, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable, natural limits. Richard ... Read more

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  • Eco-nomics

    What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment

    It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. This history of environmentalism includes a constant shift from one concern to another, and many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty. However, many of these laws are ineffective and others have had unintended consequences. In this updated edition, Richard ... Read more

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  • Doing Aquaculture as a Business for Small- and Medium-Scale Farmers. Practical Training Manual. Module 2: The Economic Dimension of Commercial Aquaculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The target users of both modules are trainers, educators, extension officers as well as small- and medium-scale fish farmers. The purpose of this module is to enhance their knowledge and capacities in understanding and applying the basic economic and financial principles and concepts of commercial aquaculture in their daily activities. ... Read more

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  • Community Planning

    How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems

    Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems covers the basic theoretical principles of community planning and how planning has evolved in the United States. The book defines the interdisciplinary nature of the field, identifies the forces that shape the planning process, and explains the sub-specialized areas of community planning.Throughout the text, the author draws ... Read more

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  • The Housing Bomb

    Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society

    How our thirst for more and larger houses is undermining society and what we can do about it.Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, ... Read more

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  • A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy

    It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we as a nation need to do to manage our most vital resource. In this book, leading thinkers at world ... Read more

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  • Cotton

    by Adam Sneyd ...
    Series series Resources
    Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion. But behind this ubiquitous fibre prized for its softness lies a darker story of exploitation and hardship. In this penetrating analysis, Adam Sneyd explores the power politics that envelop cotton as major corporate players and countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas compete to control it.In the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Environmental Markets

    A Property Rights Approach

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using governmental management, regulation, taxation, and subsidization with a market-based property rights ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD