Traditional and modern approaches to the environment on the Pacific Rim : tensions and values /

"The most vigorously developing economies and largest markets today are located on the Pacific Rim, suggesting that the economic "center of gravity" is shifting from the shores of the North Atlantic. Yet the Pacific Rim is also the location of much of the earth's natural beauty a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coward, Harold G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Temas:
Economic development > Environmental aspects > Pacific Area.
Environmental policy > Pacific Area.
Développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement > Pacifique, Région du.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Pacifique, Région du.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Ecology
Economic development > Environmental aspects
Economic history
Environmental policy
Pacific Area > Economic conditions.
Pacific Area > Environmental conditions.
Pacifique, Région du > Conditions économiques.
Pacifique, Région du > Conditions environnementales.
Pacific Area
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Roots and values inherent in modern development / Ivan Head
  • The Pacific after Rio: population, consumption, and the environment / Arthur Hanson
  • Modern communications and opportunities for pro-environmental networking in East Asia / Jan Walls
  • Traditional and modern institutions and the commons / Elizabeth A. Wilman and R. Douglas Burch
  • Ecofeminism, religion, gender, hierarchy, and environment / Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Pacific North American first peoples and the environment / Nancy Turner and Richard Atleo
  • Mountains, water, wood, and fish: Chinese and Japanese perspectives on nature and ecology / Jan Walls and Masao Kunihiro
  • Immigration, environment, and public policy in Australia / Fazal Rizvi
  • Forest management in British Columbia: the transition to sustainability / Stephen Owen and David Greer
  • Water in the Columbia River Basin: from a source of permanence to an instrument for economic growth / David H. Getches
  • Changed land, changed lives: energy and the Aborigines in the Russian Pacific / Vassily I. Sokolov
  • Social values and development patterns in South China: the case of the Pearl River Delta region in the 1900s / Graham E. Johnson and Yuen-fong Woon.

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