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THE ECONOMICS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

JOHN V. KRUTILLA / ANTHONY C. FISHER

In this pioneering study, Krutilla and Fisher put the amenity resources of natural environments into an analytical framework comparable to that for the extractive resources. The models and theoretical background of their techniques are illustrated by case studies which include the controversial Hells Canyon dam, the Mineral King ski resort, and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. The au...

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THE COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY

JOHN V. KRUTILLA

This book applies the principles of cost-benefit analysis, an international program in which an equitable division of costs and gains was an aim, along with economies of coordinated development. Originally published in 1967. ...

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COLLECTIVE ACTION

RUSSELL HARDIN

Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives. Relying heavily on theoretical models of decision making, public choice postulates that people act in their individual interests in making collective decisions. As it happens, however, reality does not mirror t...

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AN ALMOST PRACTICAL STEP TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY

ROBERT M. SOLOW

Nobel Laureate Robert Solow explores how changes in social accounting practice could contribute to more rational debate and action in crafting economic and environmental policy. A thoughtful work about the wise use of society's natural resources, intergenerational equity, and the translation of ideas about sustainability into real policy. ...

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CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY

TALBOT PAGE

In this book, Page addresses the range of issues that need to be considered in establishing a materials policy. They introduce the notion of equity and fairness based on John Rawls' original position, suggesting that representatives of the future would be unlikely to accept today's market allocation of virgin material extraction. This is built upon by addressing the many interr...

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REGIONAL CONFLICT AND NATIONAL POLICY

KENT A. PRICE

First Published in 2011. This is Volume 9 of fourteen in a set of titles on Policy and Governance. Resources for the Future is a non- profit organization for research and education in the development, conservation, and use of natural resources, including the quality of the environment. The issues of conservation, the environment, and energy have enormous implications not only i...

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THE FOREST SERVICE

GLEN O. ROBINSON

First Published in 2011. This book provides a study of the Forest Service, its organization and processes as one of the largest sub departmental bureaus in the federal government; speaking to matters as they stood surrounding 1974. Robinson fits the Forest Service within the larger framework of public land management, analyzing as an administrative institution with emphasis on ...

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SCIENCE & RESOURCES

HENRY JARRETT

First Published in 2011. This title explores the difficult and critical questions of the recent advances in science and technology and their strong influence on the production and use of natural resources. Planners, administrators, and ordinary voters must be aware of the physical and biological possibilities and limitations of their plans and aspirations; and scientists and te...

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AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS AND THEIR KEEPERS

RONALD A. FORESTA

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 t...

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THE FEDERAL LANDS REVISITED

MARION CLAWSON

Public land management and ownership came under increasing scrutiny in the 1980s, partly because of the increased value of federal lands; prized for their timber, minerals, energy, and amenity outputs. The personal touch and wisdom of one of these prolific and thoughtful writers on land use issues ensure that this book is a valuable addition to a literature to which Dr. Clawson...

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STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF A WILDERNESS TRAVEL SIMULATOR

V. KERRY SMITH / JOHN V. KRUTILLA

First Published in 2011. This is Volume 10 of in a set of ten titles on Resources for the Future Library Collection Forests, Lands and Recreation. The research on which this monograph is based was stimulated by some ideas presented in George Stankey's A Strategy for the Definition and Management of Wilderness Quality and the conceptual model presented in a paper by Anthony Fis...

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ECONOMICS AND POLICY ISSUES IN CLIMATE CHANGE

WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS

Although the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol focused world attention on the global climate, it was just one step in the ongoing process of addressing climate change in all its facets. Research by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been ongoing since 1988. An extensive IPCC Working Group report published in 1995 examined the economic and social aspec...

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PUBLIC ECONOMICS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE

LOWDON WINGO JR. / ALAN EVANS

This book argues that, if redistribution was the dominant political theme of the 1960s, that of the 1970s would have been most assuredly quality. Furthermore, this seeks to poorly articulated normative concerns of physical and environmental planners to the intellectual tools, old and new, with which economists were addressing policy issues. This will be of particular interest a...

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RURAL WOMEN AT WORK

RUTH B. DIXON-MUELLER

First Published in 2011. This study is Volume I of the Global Environment and Development 7 volume set. One of the most promising areas identified in the initial study was female labor-force participation. If good jobs at decent wages were offered to women, particularly those living in rural areas, would such employment have an effect on family size? Would their jobs compete f...

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WATER MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

KENNETH D. FREDERICK

First Published in 2011. Water is a scarce resource in the arid zones of Latin America and is sure to become more so. Population growth and rising income, coupled with rapid urbanization, assure continued steep increases in demand for water for irrigation and for industrial and municipal uses. This monograph offers an overall methodology and systematic analysis of a region’s wa...

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ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

KARL-GORAN MALER

First Published in 2011. This is Volume VII out a series of eight on Environmental and Resource Economics and looks at Environmental Economics and in particular the problems connected with environmental quality. ...

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TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICAN WATER DEVELOPMENT

EDWARD A. ACKERMAN / GEORGE O.G. LOFF

Technology in American Water Development is an exploratory study. This book addresses the proven technology which has influenced water development in the past, those still effective in shaping its course and the emerging technology of today. The heart of this study is in the thirty-one case descriptions selected from both the emerging and proven technology. Each case descriptio...

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

RONALD G. RIDKER

First Published in 2011. This book grew out of a project initiated by Resources for the Future to search for selective interventions into the development process that in turn might speed the course of fertility decline in developing countries. The result is a volume the authors hope will find wide use, not only by researchers and serious students of population problems, but als...

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PUBLIC LANDS POLITICS

PAUL J. CULHANE

First Published in 2011. During the 1970s, land managers in the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) often must have felt they lived in interesting times. The decade began with the first Earth Day, an event that revealed the increasing strength and militancy of the environmental movement; as it ended, western commercial users of the public lands, disaffected ...

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THE ECONOMICS OF REGIONAL WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT

ALLEN V. KNEESE

First Published in 2011. How clean should a stream be? And what represents an efficient way of bringing about desired conditions? These are the basic issues that confront those who are concerned with the husbandry of water resources through pollution control. This book offers form and substance to the concept of water quality management. It is unique in that it provides specifi...

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COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING

CLIFFORD S. RUSSELL

First Published in 2011.This is Volume 11 of fourteen in the library collection of Policy and Government and looks at the applications from public choice theory on decision making. It brings together proceedings that look seek to answer the question for the forum, which was whether public choice theory offers promise of providing a firmer foundation for applied institutional r...

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METROPOLIS AND REGION

OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN / WILLIAM RICHARD SCOTT / STANLEY LIEBERSON / BEVERLY DAVIS DUNCAN / HAL H. WINSBOROU

This is Volume II of a series of six on Urban and Regional Economics originally published in 1960. This study discusses the future of urban developments in America. Has they already have megapolitan belts, sprawling regions of quasi-urban settlement stretching along coast lines or major transportation routes, current concepts of the community stand to be challenged. What will ...

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SIMULATION OF RECREATIONAL USE FOR PARK AND WILDERNESS MANAGEMENT

MORDECHAI SCHECHTER / ROBERT C. LUCAS

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 manage...

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LIMITING OIL IMPORTS

DOUGLAS R. BOHI / MILTON RUSSELL

First Published in 2011. This book presents the results of the third phase of our analysis of U.S. oil imports in relation to U.S. energy policy. It presents a definitive history and analysis of the United States' experiment with formal oil import controls and addresses three questions: The first is how the U.S. energy situation, especially energy security, was affected by what...

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ANALYZING DEMAND BEHAVIOR

DOUGLAS R. BOHI

First Published in 2011. This title takes econometric studies as data; it examines their assumptions, investigates their methodologies, contrasts the data sets they use, and compares their results. By informing users what they can and cannot expect from researchers, it can sharpen the criteria that are used to commission such studies and judge their results. By examining an arr...

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THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE

LUTHER J. CARTER

First Published in 2011. The early 1970s will be recorded as the years when Florida's environmental crisis, or, more specifically, its land crisis, was proclaimed. Ever since intensive settlement of Florida began a century ago, people have been trying to remake, with increasingly troubling results, a delicate, low-lying peninsula wrought by natural forces over the geological ag...

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REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

EDWIN T. HAEFELE

First Published in 2011. Mr. Haefele is a thoroughly modern eighteenth-century man in that he brings to bear new techniques of political analysis with an undisguised preference for making the government of the American Republic as contemplated by the founding fathers really work for the benefit of the people. Focusing on the question of environmental management, Haefele careful...

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NEW DEAL PLANNING

MARION CLAWSON

First Published in 2011. The purposes of this book are to analyze and describe the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB) and its direct predecessor agencies in the setting of their times, and to draw any lessons their experience offers us today. Resources for the Future (RFF) has a long tradition of conducting studies of government agencies that administer natural resource p...

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF TROPICAL LANDS

MICHAEL NELSON

First Published in 2011. Latin America today is similar to Canada in the early 1900s-a sleeping giant, basically underpopulated, whose potential rests on the exploitation of enormous land, forest, mineral, and water reserves. This study, carried out over the period 1967-69, has involved travel throughout much of Latin America north of the Tropic of Capricorn and discussions wit...

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THE WORLD COPPER INDUSTRY

RAYMOND F. MIKESELL

First Published in 2011.This is Volume 6 of the library collection of seven on Natural Resource Management and gives an analysis of the structure, physical characteristics, economics and a survey of the world copper industry and of the problems with which policy makers and students of the industry are currently concerned. There is heavy emphasis on foreign investment in mining,...

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