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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...

    $999.00

  • 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. ...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $799.00

  • 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 ...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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. ...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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 r...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,999.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • 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,...

    $4,600.00

  • TIMBER SUPPLY, LAND ALLOCATION, AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY
    WILLIAM F. HYDE
    First Published in 2011. This is the sixth volume in the Forests, Lands, and Recreation set of ten volumes. This text is one of many on the topic of timber supply, a perpetually central issue in forest economics and policy. But it is also something else: It is an attempt to examine the economic efficiency of investments in timber production. Special attention is directed to the...

    $1,299.00

  • THE SEVENTH CONTINENT
    DEBORAH SHAPLEY
    First Published in 2011. Part of the resources for the future library collection on Global Environment and Development, this is the final Volume of seven. This book presents a broad-ranging study of Antarctica's history, politics, and development prospects with a command of issues in geography, science policy, technology, and international law, which is addressed with authority...

    $859.00

  • THE PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES
    JAMES A. CRUTCHFIELD / GIULIO PONTECORVO
    This study attributes the chronic economic distress of the valuable Pacific salmon industry not only to decline in catch but also to the economic problems of open access ocean fisheries. It analyzes salmon public management programs and proposes alternatives. Originally published in 1969 ...

    $1,299.00

  • THE LEASING OF FEDERAL LANDS FOR FOSSIL FUELS PRODUCTION
    STEPHEN MACDONALD
    Stephen McDonald offers a basic understanding of the goals and practices by which the federal government leases its fossil fuel resources and how these practices affect the economy. Originally published in 1979 ...

    $1,999.00

  • MINING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    RODERICK G. EGGERT
    For centuries, denuded landscapes, fouled streams, and dirty air were accepted by society as part of the price that had to be paid for mineral production. Even initial environmental legislation devised by industrialized countries in the 1960s and 1970s was largely designed without mining in mind. And developing countries had little in the way of environmental policy. With the a...

    $1,399.00

  • PETROLEUM CONSERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
    STEPHEN MACDONALD
    The author develops an economic framework for analyzing state regulation of oil and gas and concludes that existing regulations fall short of assuring optimum well spacing, production rates, use of associated gas, and exploration. Originally published in 1971. ...

    $1,299.00

  • ENERGY IN AMERICA'S FUTURE
    SAM H. SCHURR / JOEL DARMSTADTER / HARRY PERRY / WILLIAM C. RAMSAY / MILTON RUSSELL
    Results of a comprehensive two-year study analyzing the facts and policy alternatives.  Originally published in 1979. ...

    $1,299.00


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