Natural assets : democratizing environmental ownership /
Annotation
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.