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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786477403321

Titolo

Natural assets : democratizing environmental ownership / / edited by James K. Boyce and Barry G. Shelley ; foreword by Melvin Oliver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Island Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-59726-278-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

BoyceJames K

ShelleyBarry G

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Environmental justice

Environmental protection

Conservation of natural resources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover Page""; ""Copyrights Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: The Wealth of Nature""; ""Ch. 1: From Natural Resources to Natural Assets""; ""Ch. 2: ""A Question of Degree"": The Sanctity of Property in American Economic History""; ""Part II: Reclaiming Environmental Sinks""; ""Ch. 3: Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability to Community Asset""; ""Ch. 4: Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice""

""Ch. 5: Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies, and Poverty"" ""Ch. 6: Information for Empowerment: The EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project""; ""Ch. 7: The Sky Trust: The Battle for Atmospheric Scarcity Rent""; ""Part III: Cultivating Natural Capital""; ""Ch. 8: White Earth: Recovering a Homeland""; ""Ch. 9: The Watershed Commonwealth of the Upper Rio Grande""; ""Ch. 10: The Lighthouse and the Potato: Internalizing the Value of Crop Genetic Diversity""; ""Part IV: Out of the Woods""; ""Ch. 11: Values, Markets, and Rights: Rebuilding Forest Ecosystem Assets""

""Ch. 12: Land and Livelihoods in the Northern Forest"" ""Ch. 13: Community-Based Stewardship: Reinvesting in Public Forests and



Forest Communities""; ""Part V: Greening the Cities""; ""Ch. 14: Can Natural Assets Help Address Urban Poverty?""; ""Ch. 15: The Chelsea River: Democratizing Access to Nature in a World of Cities""; ""Ch. 16: Poverty and the Environment: The Urban Agriculture Connection""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""