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1. Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies

   By John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
2. Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development

   By David Reed

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of '...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
3. Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures

   Four case studies

   By Kerry Turner, Tom Jones

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and recycling nutrients, as well as for their...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
4. Forests: Market and Intervention Failures

   Five case studies

   By Soren Wibe, Tom Jones

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   The economic value of forest. has long been recognized, but the ways in which that value is calculated and the management policies adopted in consequence have all too often resulted in overuse and irreversible destruction. This is spectacularly obvious around the Mediterranean basin, but it is also...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
5. Guests of the Nation

   People of Ireland versus the multinationals

   By Robert Allen, Tara Jones

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   The Ireland of the romantic past with it. thatched cottage., rural traditions and literary grace has changed beyond all recognition in the last twenty-five years. It is still one of the least polluted countries in the northern hemisphere, but only just. That, too, could change dramatically in the...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
6. Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects

   By John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter, Louise A. Fallon, Paul B. Sherman, Supachit Manipomoke

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
7. Elephants, Economics and Ivory

   By Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson, David W. Pearce

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
8. Economics of Dryland Management

   By John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge