Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul b sherman

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  • DRYLAND MANAGEMENT: ECONOMIC CASE STUDIES
    JOHN A. DIXON / DAVID E. JAMES / PAUL B. SHERMAN
    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation. Following their successful and innovative work The Economics of Dryland Management the editors have a...

    $1,320.00

  • ECONOMICS OF DRYLAND MANAGEMENT
    JOHN A. DIXON / DAVID E. JAMES / PAUL B. SHERMAN
    We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20 per cent of the world's population lives in dryland areas, and unless action is taken drylands will increase dramaticall...

    $1,480.00

  • ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
    JOHN A. DIXON / RICHARD A. CARPENTER / LOUISE A. FALLON / PAUL B. SHERMAN / SUPACHIT MANIPOMOKE
    It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose a means of constructing useful economic evaluations of the impacts of development...

    $1,320.00