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The Cooperation Challenge of Economics and the Protection of Water Supplies : a Case Study of the New York City Watershed Collaboration.
Examines the watershed collaboration from an economic perspective as well as the possibility of alternative means of water protection such as regulation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge explorations in environmental economics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface: The Tan t'ien of collaboration; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Introduction: The problem and the questions; 1 New York City's case, needed cooperation, and collaboration needs; 2 The vision; 3 Watershed collaborations: Green milieus for sustainable development?; 4 Rural economies and the drama of farming and forestry; 5 Implementation: The collaboration as a learning machine; 6 Conflict; 7 Evaluation; 8 Lessons learned: The art of paying for nature's services.
- Appendix A List of reservoirs (construction years) (capacity in billions of gallons)Appendix B Timeline for the watershed; Appendix C Watershed Protection and Partnership Council members August 2008; Appendix D National farm programs; Appendix E State farm programs; Appendix F National forestry programs; Appendix G State Forestry programs; Appendix H Census block groups used for the study of watershed residents; Appendix I Zip codes used for watershed and WTOW in employer study; Bibliography.