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America's Renewable Resources Historical Trends and Current Challenges
316 Pages
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RFF Press
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RFF Press
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By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on renewable resources--water, forests, rangeland, cropland and soils, and wildlife--which possess the... Read more
1: Overview: Renewable Resource Trends; 2: Water Resources: Increasing Demand and Scarce Supplies; 3: Forest Resources: Resilient and Serviceable; 4: Rangeland Resources: Changing Uses and Productivity; 5: Cropland and Soils: Past Performance and Policy Challenges; 6: Wildlife: Severe Decline and Partial Recovery; 7: The Growing Role of Outdoor Recreation
Biography
Kenneth D. Frederick, Roger A. Sedjo
'Filled with high-quality information and thoughtful analysis, this book is a good antidote to orthodox environmental doomsdaying.' Reason 'The whole panorama of renewable resources is so engagingly displayed that the unwary reader will be lured unresistingly into taking the broader view.... This book has much to contribute to the environmental debate. Its unbiased, well-argued assessment will, given the chance, improve the ability of all factions intelligibly to weigh the issues.' Forestry Chronicle 'It was great to find a scholarly public policy book that provides facts rather than provoking a riot...gives a sense of perspective missing from many volumes.' Bloomsbury Review 'Should be required reading for legislators and administrators who deal with America's resources... Through this study, one can clearly see past policies and attitudes and can appreciate that sometimes the condition and use of resources was and is really in the eye of the beholder.' Forest and Conservation History
