Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The Wealth of Nature 5
  • 1. From Natural Resources to Natural Assets / James K. Boyce 7
  • 2. "A Question of Degree": The Sanctity of Property in American Economic History / Gerald Friedman 29
  • Part II. Reclaiming Environmental Sinks 55
  • 3. Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability to Community Asset / K.A. Dixon 57
  • 4. Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice / Manuel Pastor 77
  • 5. Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies, and Poverty / Paul Templet 99
  • 6. Information for Empowerment: The EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project / Nicolaas W. Bouwes, Steven M. Hassur, Marc D. Shapiro 117
  • 7. The Sky Trust: The Battle for Atmospheric Scarcity Rent / Peter Barnes, Marc Breslow 135
  • Part III. Cultivating Natural Capital 151
  • 8. White Earth: Recovering a Homeland / Winona LaDuke 153
  • 9. The Watershed Commonwealth of the Upper Rio Grande / Devon G. Pena 169
  • 10. The Lighthouse and the Potato: Internalizing the Value of Crop Genetic Diversity / Stephen B. Brush 187
  • Part IV. Out of the Woods 207
  • 11. Values, Markets, and Rights: Rebuilding Forest Ecosystem Assets / Constance Best 209
  • 12. Land and Livelihoods in the Northern Forest / Deborah Brighton 227
  • 13. Community-Based Stewardship: Reinvesting in Public Forests and Forest Communities / Cecilia Danks 243
  • Part V. Greening the Cities 261
  • 14. Can Natural Assets Help Address Urban Poverty? / Greg Watson 263
  • 15. The Chelsea River: Democratizing Access to Nature in a World of Cities / H. Patricia Hynes 277
  • 16. Poverty and the Environment: The Urban Agriculture Connection / Raquel Pinderhughes 299.