1st Edition
Renewable Natural Resources A Management Handbook For The Eighties
332 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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Enormous in scope, this book presents in comprehensive and logical form the sum of our national knowledge about renewable energy resources. It deals with these resources in terms of opportunities and dangers, in terms of current availability and possible expansion, in terms of how natural resources relate to human resources and needs, and in terms of their replacement potential for nonrenewable... Read more
Also of Interest -- Preface -- Renewable Natural Resources: Our Next Crisis or Our Next Opportunity -- Forces Shaping the Future of Renewable Natural Resources -- Why Effective Decision making is Currently Impossible -- Changing Values and the Environment -- Looking at Resource Trends Through a Population Lens -- A Perspective on Future Science and Technology and the Challenge of Renewable Resources -- Economic Forces -- Environmental Education -- Strategic Issues in Renewable Resources -- What Is an Emerging Issue? -- Forestlands and Rangelands -- Recreation, Fish, and Wildlife -- Environment, Land Use, and Land Management -- Air, Water, Weather, and Climate -- Energy -- Research, Technology, and Education -- Other Issues -- Turning Theory into Action -- A Futures Information and Monitoring System for Renewable Natural Resources -- An Integrated Perspective on Some Alternative Future Directions -- Implications for Legislative and Executive Branch Actions
Biography
Dennis L. Little, Robert E. Dils, John Gray
