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By Alex Smajgl, Silva Larson
September 06, 2016
The way that humans organize both resource access and resource use is vital to the management of natural resources. Within different contexts, institutional arrangements (such as the rules of common and private property rights) become levers by which human behaviours can be modified and steered ...
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By Thomas Sikor
May 13, 2016
�This volume develops the rich conceptual and empirical content of public-private relationships, increasingly acknowledged as the dominant realm of natural resource governance. Ten wonderful studies from around the world illuminate opportunities for advancing the theory, analysis and effective ...
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By Poul Holm, David J. Starkey, Michaela Barnard
January 29, 2016
�[A] fascinating volume, which establishes marine environmental history as a major new discipline for academics as well as an exciting way to bring history and the natural world alive for the public.� ANDREW A. ROSENBERG, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE �The HMAP project is to be congratulated on this...
By John M. Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro, Blake Alcott
June 23, 2009
'The Jevons Paradox', which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This has subsequently been proved to apply not just to fossil ...
By Alessandra Giuliani, Bioversity International
August 12, 2014
�This wonderful book demonstrates how rural livelihoods - as well as diets, health and ways of life - are enhanced by the so-called �neglected and underutilized plant species� which, in the book�s Syrian case study, include such deliciously interesting things as capers, laurel, jujube and figs. ...
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By Mans Nilsson, Katarina Eckerberg
July 16, 2009
Environmental values and concerns are meant to be reflected through environmental policy, which is then integrated into mainstream economic and social policy that serves to govern society and the economy in different sectors. Yet effective environmental policy integration has proved to be very ...
By John M. Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro, Blake Alcott
December 20, 2007
�The Jevons Paradox�, which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This has subsequently been proved to apply not just to fossil ...