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  • Bureaucracy vs. Environment

    The Environmental Costs of Bureaucratic Governance

    Edited by John Baden, Richard L. Stroup ...
    Bureaucracy vs. Environment: The Environmental Costs of Bureaucratic Governance explores a provocative and under-examined reality: that the very institutions created to protect and manage America’s natural resources often become the source of environmental harm. Edited by John Baden and Richard L. Stroup and featuring contributions from prominent economists and policy analysts, this volume ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Vanishing Farmland Crisis

    Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land

    Edited by John Baden ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered—and as the direct prelude to a nation-wide shortage of both food and fiber. The NALS report, to which eleven federal agencies contributed, argued that land-use ... Read more

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  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    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

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Price of Oil

    by Roberto F. Aguilera, Marian Radetzki ...
    Drawing on their extensive knowledge of the oil industry, Roberto F. Aguilera and Marian Radetzki provide an in-depth examination of the price of the world's most important commodity. They argue that although oil has experienced an extraordinary price increase over the past few decades, we have now reached a turning point where scarcity, uncertain supply and high prices will be replaced by ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Eco-nomics

    What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment

    by Richard L. Stroup ...
    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

    $6.99 USD

  • The Global Economics of Forestry

    by William F. Hyde ...
    This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of forest development, and then discusses the management and policy implications associated with each, supporting its observations with examples and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Breaking the Logjam

    Environmental Protection That Will Work

    by Professor David Schoenbrod, Richard B. Stewart, Katrina M. Wyman ...
    After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field of environmental law, identify the core problems with existing environmental statutes and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Issues of the Day

    100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy

    by Ian W.H. Parry, Felicia Day ...
    Series series RFF Report
    Issues of the Day provides an easy way for students, academics, journalists, policymakers, and the public to learn about a diverse range of policy issues affecting the environment, energy, transportation, and public health. Each commentary gives a short assessment of a topic, summarizing in a non-technical way the current state of analysis or evidence on the issue, along with selected ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Environmental Policy

    New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Michael E. Kraft, Barry G. Rabe, Norman J. Vig ...
    As environmental issues continue to become more prevalent in society and surrounding policy challenges become more complex, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for current policy. Students will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Tar Sands

    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance -- their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life -- few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom -- shortages of arable land, clashes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Markets and the Environment, Second Edition

    by Nathaniel O. Keohane, Sheila M. Olmstead, Dr. ...
    Series series Foundations Contemporary Environmental
    A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that Markets and the Environment has become a classic text in environmental studies since its first publication in 2007. Now thoroughly revised with updated information on current environmental policy and real-world examples of market-based instruments, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD