1st Edition

Environmental Resources

By A.S. Mather, K. Chapman Copyright 1995
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    Environmental Resources provides a comprehensive text for undergraduate resource management courses. It begins with an introduction to natural and environmental resources and then considers them in the context of politics, time and space.

    1. Introductory Concepts
    2. The Political Economy of Environmental Resources
    3. Environmental Resources in Space and Time
    4. The Land Resource: Food Production
    5. The Land Resource: Forests
    6. The Land Resource: Biodiversity, Protected Areas and Environmental Conservation
    7. Energy Resources
    8. Mineral Resources
    9. Water Resources
    10. Ocean Resources
    11. Environmental Wealth and Limits to Growth
    12. Transition to Sustainability?
    13. Index

    Biography

    A.S. Mather, K. Chapman