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

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC : , : Island Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetto topico: Environmental justice; Environmental protection; Conservation of natural resources
• Altri autori: BoyceJames K ShelleyBarry G
• 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Natural assets
• ISBN: 1-59726-278-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825415503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II