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  • America's National Parks and Their Keepers

    by Ronald A. Foresta ...
    Series series RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set
    First Published in 2011. This book is a study of an expanding National Park System; it is also a study of the bureaucracy that shaped it, how it grew, and the stresses it faces. As Dr. Foresta shows, the Park Service is no stranger to controversy and change. One of the Service's strengths has been its pragmatism and adaptability, but current guidelines are hard to come by and the decisions of the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Blue Gold

    The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

    by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ...
    "Probably the most eloquent call to arms we're likely to hear about the politics of water" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto).In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis," Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy ( In These Times). Our ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Challenge of Rural Electrification

    Strategies for Developing Countries

    by Douglas F. Barnes ...
    Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities result in high capital and operating costs. Consumers are often poor, and their electricity ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure

    by Peter Z. Grossman ...
    US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure is an analytic history of American energy policy. For the past forty years, the US government has tried to develop comprehensive policies on energy, yet these efforts have failed repeatedly. These failures have not resulted from a lack of will or funds but rather from an inability to differentiate between what could be undertaken and what could actually ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Law of Energy Underground

    Understanding New Developments in Subsurface Production, Transmission, and Storage

    Edited by Donald N. Zillman, Aileen McHarg, Adrian Bradbrook, Lila Barrera-Hernandez ...
    While energy has been extracted from the ground for two centuries, recent years have seen transformative changes to how easy it is to access underground energy resources. This book investigates the key challenges and legal consequences of recent developments in the use of the subsurface as a source of energy. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the new technologies that have made this possible ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy

    Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe

    Edited by Robert J. Johnston, Stephen K. Swallow ...
    As external forces increase the demand for land conversion, communities are increasingly open to policies that encourage conservation of farm and forest lands. This interest in conservation notwithstanding, the consequences of land-use policy and the drivers of land conversions are often unclear. One of the first books to deal exclusively with the economics of rural-urban sprawl, Economics and ... Read more

    $81.06 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

  • Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

    Edited by Helen Young, Lisa Goldman ...
    Series series Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
    Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Controlling Tropical Deforestation

    by Alan Grainger ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for over twenty years, only limited progress has been made in controlling deforestation and improving ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD