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The Challenge of Global warming, Dean Edward Abrahamson, (ed). (Washington DC: Island Press, 1989), 339pp.

The Challenge of Global warming is a careful examination of the causes, effects and political responses to global warming. It is a collection of free-standing works by multiple authors.

Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues, Donald D. Adams and Walter P. Page (eds.), (New York: Plenum Press, 1985), 521 pp.

Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues is a comprehensive, if not exhaustive, examination of acid deposition and its effects on endangered species and habitat preservation, and water resources. This work constitutes an expanded version of the proceedings of the Conference on Acid Deposition: Environmental and Economic Impact, held in Plattsburgh, New York in 1983.

The Clean Water Act: 20 Years Later, Robert W. Adler, Jessica C. Landman, Diane M Cameron, (Washington DC: Island Press, 1993), 309pp.

The Clean Water Act: 20 Years Later is an evaluation of "...how well the Clean Water Act has achieved its primary goal of restoring and protecting the integrity of the nation's surface waters." The work was published in conjunction with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Toward Pollution-free Manufacturing, (Washington, D.C.: The Institute for Local Self- Reliance, 1986), 120 pp.

Toward Pollution-free Manufacturing is a practical examination of the Standard Industrial Codes which apply to manufacturing wastes.

Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought, Terry L. Anderson, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), 121pp.

Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought is an examination of what is asserted to be an imminent water crisis in light of a new resource economics framework. Appropriation doctrine and privatization is examined.

Sustaining Earth: Response to the Environmental Threat, D. J. R. Angell, J. D. Comer, and M. L. N. Wilkinson, (eds), (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 220 pp.

Sustaining Earth: Response to the Environmental Threat is an examination of some of the threats to the environment, and the necessity of contributions from individuals, societies, governments and the international community for the success of sustainable development.

Halting the Degradation of Natural Resources: Is there a Role for Rural Communities?, Jean- Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau, (Oxford: Clarencon Press, 1996), 407 pp.

Halting the Degradation of Natural Resources: Is there a Role for Rural Communities? is an examination of the guidelines and principles which would make the local-level management of natural resources efficient, equitable and preferable to global management.

The Colorado River: Instability and Basin Management, William L. Graf, (Washington, DC: The Association of American Geographers, 1985), 86pp.

The Colorado River: Instability and Basin Management is an examination of the management of the Colorado River Basin in the presence of multiples instabilities. The work contains an evaluation of significant trends and suggestions for future management.

Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet, Richard Elliot Benedick, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 1991), 293pp. This work was published in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund; The Conservation Foundation; and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University.

Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet is an examination of the history, scientific description and moves toward solution of ozone depletion.

Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California, William Blomquist, (California: ICS Press, 1992), 402 pp.

Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California is an examination of the governance of groundwater in California. The issues addressed are common to all watersheds in the Western United States.

Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future, ed. Peter Borrelli, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 324 pp.

Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an examination of the trends in environmentalism, environmental activism, environmental litigation and eco-philosophy with the perspective of each of these areas.

Economic-Ecological Modeling, Leon C. Braat & Wal F. J. Van Lierop, (eds)(New York: Elsevier Science Publishers B V, 1987), 329.

Economic-Ecological Modeling is an examination of the theory, methods and practice of environmental modeling. The work is concluded with a discussion of the use of modeling in policy-making. This work is volume sixteen of Studies in Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Land Degradation and Society, Piers Blaikie & Harold Brookfield, (London: Methuen & Co Inc., 1987), 284pp.

Land Degradation and Society is an examination of the land degradation problem and approaches to mitigation, and the cost involved in such mitigation. Blaikie and Brookfield acknowledge the significant contributions made by multiple authors to whom they attribute several chapters.

Corporate Environmentalism in a Global Economy: Societal Values in International Technology Transfer, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Patrick Derr, Ortwin Renn, Allen L. White, (Connecticut: Quorum Books, 1993), 245 pp.

Corporate Environmentalism in a Global Economy: Societal Values in International Technology Transfer is an examination of the roles of two sets of values in the decision-making process. Those values are: those related to environment, health and safety (EH&S), and those related to development, equity, and independence (DE&I).

New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century, Gary D. Weatherford & F. Lee Brown, (eds), (New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 244pp.

New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century is forwarded by Governor Bruce Babbitt of Arizona. This work is an examination of the history and persistent issues surrounding the Colorado River which have erupted periodically in litigation and worse. The authors offer an assessment of the issues that those managing the Colorado River will likely be presented with in the coming century.

Beyond the Fray: Reshaping America's Environmental Response, Daniel D. Chiras, (Colorado: Johnson Books, 1990), 206 pp.

Beyond the Fray: Reshaping America's Environmental Response is an examination of the philosophical change which must take place in order for environmentalism to become the mainstream ethic.

The Earth as Transformed by Human Action, W. C. Clark, R. W. Kates, J. F. Richards, J. T. Matthews, W. B. Meyer, B. L. Turner II (ed. ), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 713pp.

The Earth as Transformed by Human Action examines the changes inhuman population and society and the resultant anthropomorphic changes to the earth and its atmosphere. This work features the work of many authors who are experts in their own fields of endeavor.

Public Interest in the Use of Private Lands, ed. Benjamin C. Dysart III and Marion Clawson, (New York: Praeger, 1989), 187pp.

Public Interest in the Use of Private Lands is an examination of the justification for public control over the use of private lands when that use exceeds the purely self-regarding category.

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience, Committee on Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems, Water Science and Technology Board and Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources National Research Council, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1989), 147pp.

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience is an examination of the problem of irrigation-induced water quality problems using the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge and its build-up of toxic levels of selenium as an example. This work examines the scientific and institutional dimensions of the problem and offers methods for resolution.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law, Carl F. Cranor, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 241 pp.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law is an examination of the need for, and methods of, assessment of toxic substances. The author addresses the legal, legislative, administrative, and tort issues surrounding toxic substances.

Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability, Joel Darmstadter, (ed), (Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1992), 91pp.

Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability is a collection of essays on topics which concern themes considered at, or relevant to, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development(UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, 1992. Thus, the focus of the book is the relationship between economic development and the condition of the environment.

Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations, Avner de-Shalit, (London: Routledge, 1995) 155pp.

Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations is a philosophical examination of how future generations must be considered in the formulation of contemporary environmental policy. de-Shalit offers one approach for structuring an obligation to future generations.

Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, William deBuys, (New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1985), 378 pp.

Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range is an examination of the historical competition for: water, game, wood, and grazing in northern New Mexico, and the continuing contemporary competition which adds employment to the historical list. The work is also an examination of how the differences in the Anglo and Hispanic cultures affect the choices made by peoples in this region.

Challenges in the Conservation of Biological Resources: A Practitioner's Guide, Daniel J. Decker, Marianne E. Krasney, Gary R. Goff, Charles R. Smith, David W. Gross, (eds), (Colorado: Westview Press, 1991), 380 pp.

Challenges in the Conservation of Biological Resources: A Practitioner's Guide is an examination of: the basic considerations, the conceptual foundations, and the tools and techniques for conservation of biological resources. This work also presents case studies in support of the theories advanced and suggests implications for management, education and policy which will promote the conservation of biological resources.

Pollution and Public Policy: A Book of Readings, ed. David F. Paulsen and Robert B. Denhardt, (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973), 251pp.

Pollution and Public Policy: A Book of Readings is an examination of the relationship between environmental policy-making and the public policy process with specific consideration of both air and water pollution.

Environmental Law and American Business: Dilemmas of Compliance, Joseph F DiMento, (New York: Plenum Press, 1986), 219 pp.

Environmental Law and American Business: Dilemmas of Compliance is an examination of: what constitutes compliance to environmental laws, how businesses accomplish this, and how agencies can assist in achieving compliance.

Forging New Rights in Western Waters, Robert G. Dunbar, (Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), 270pp.

Forging New Rights in Western Waters is an examination of the history and evolution of Western water rights as a modification of a property right. It begins with the history of the first irrigations in the West and concludes with an examination of the not uncontested right to appropriation.

Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach, Robyn Eckersley, (New York: State University of New York Press, 1992), 261 pp.

Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach is an examination of the development and nature of ecopolitical thought and an evaluation of where it might be classified with regard to other political thought.

Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma, Mary R. English, (New York: Quorum Books, 1992), 267pp.

Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma is an examination of the components of authority, trust, risk, justice and legitimacy in the siting of low- level radioactive waste facilities. It offers a brief history of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (LLWPA) and an in-depth examination of the act itself.

Choosing a Sustainable Future, The Report of the National Commission on the Environment, (Washington DC: Island Press, 1993), 169 pp.

Choosing a Sustainable Future is an examination of the goals and tools of sustainable development. Additionally, the Commission catalogues the priority problems facing those advocating sustainable development.

Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma, Harold C. Barnett, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 334 pp.

Toxic Debts is a political economy of the Superfund, created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980. It argues that Superfund has failed due to conflict over who will pay the"toxic debt, " that is, the cost of cleaning up hazardous waste sites, and conflict between environmental and economic interests.

Application of Biotechnology: Environmental and Policy Issues, John R. Fowle III, (ed), (Colorado: Westview Press, 1987), 224 pp.

Application of Biotechnology: Environmental and Policy Issues examines: the historical context of the development of biotechnology , ecological/environmental release issues and the future of biotechnology. Many of the papers contained in the book were presented at the 1985 symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats, John C. Freemuth, (Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1991), 178 pp.

Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats is an examination of external threats to the health and integrity of the ecosystems represented in, and to the whole of individual National Parks. The author examines: the historical view, and the continuing process of legislative and regulatory efforts to protect National parks from these threats.

Western Public Lands: The Management of Natural Resources in a Time of Declining Federalism, John G. Francis and Richard Ganzel, (eds), (New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1984), 306 pp.

Western Public Lands: The Management of Natural Resources in a Time of Declining Federalism is an examination of the current policies for the management of public lands in the Western United States. This is followed by consideration of selected natural resource issues.

Controlling Water Use: The Unfinished Business of Water Quality protection, David H. Getches, Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Teresa A. Rice, (Colorado: Natural Resources Law Center, 1991, 134 pp.

Controlling Water Use: The Unfinished Business of Water Quality protection is an examination of the protection of water quality within the western water allocation systems. The authors examine present regulations and laws and recommend approaches for the future.

Modeling for Population and Sustainable Development, A. J. Gilbert and L. C. Braat (eds), (New York: Routledge, 1991), 253 pp.

Modeling for Population and Sustainable Development is an examination of the Enhancement of population Carrying Capacity Options (ECCO) approach to planning sustainable development. This work examines ECCO pilot studies and considers other modeling approaches. The collected works serve as the proceedings of the seminar/workshop on Modeling for the Population and Sustainable Development, held in the Netherlands in 1987.

Environmental Risk, Environmental Values, and Political Choices: Beyond Efficiency Trade- offs in Public Policy Analysis, ed. John Martin Gillroy, (Colorado: Westview Press, 1993), 180 pp.

Environmental Risk, Environmental Values, and Political Choices: Beyond Efficiency Trade- offs in Public Policy Analysis is an examination of the effects of values on public policy.

Desertification: Environmental Degradation in and Around Arid Lands, Michael H. Glantz (ed), (Colorado: Westview Press, 1977), 337 pp.

Desertification: Environmental Degradation in and Around Arid Lands is a careful examination of the global problem of desertification. This work addresses the nature and causes of desertification and examines attempts at mitigation.

Water in Crisis, PH Gleick (ed), (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 473pp.

Water in Crisis is an exhaustive examination of global fresh water issues. It is a collection of readings making the work offered on each topic free-standing.

Computer Models in Environmental Planning, Steven I. Gordon, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985), 217 pp.

Computer Models in Environmental Planning is an examination of: Water Quality models, storm runoff models, and air pollution models. The author also addresses the evaluation of land uses and hazardous waste management.

World of Waste: Dilemmas of Industrial Development, K. A. Gourlay, (London: Zed Books, 1992), 242 pp.

World of Waste: Dilemmas of Industrial Development is an examination of: human produced waste, its storage, and suggestions for its elimination.

Wilderness Preservation and the Sagebrush Rebellions, William L. Graf, (Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1990) 329 pp.

Wilderness Preservation and the Sagebrush Rebellions explores the history of conflicts between wilderness preservation and commodity users over the use of federal lands in the West. This history touches on a number of environmental issues, including wildlife and habitat preservation, development and growth pressures, and water rights.

Atlas of Satellite Observations Related to Global Change, RJ Gurney, J. L. Foster, CL Parkinson, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 470pp.

The Atlas of Satellite Observations Related to Global Change is an atlas of satellite images from and of different distances from the earth's surface. The images are accompanied by explanatory text.

The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics, Hazel Henderson, (New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981), 411pp.

The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics, is a criticism of economic theory as a basis for policy-making and calls for a re-conceptualization of environmental problems.

Rocky Times in Rocky Mountain National Park: An Unnatural History, Karl Hess, Jr. (Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1993), 156 pp.

Rocky Times in Rocky Mountain National Park: An Unnatural History is an examination of the effects of managing this National Park for the promotion of the elk herd which attracts visitors to the Park. The author asserts that an unnatural state, for both the park and the elk herd, exists under the present management direction.

Down by the River: The Impact of Federal Water Projects and Policies on Biological Diversity, Constance Elizabeth Hunt, with Verne Huser, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 250 pp.

Down by the River: The Impact of Federal Water Projects and Policies on Biological Diversity is a careful study of the effects of federal projects on biodiversity in multiple riparian systems which have been the subject of federal projects and policies.

Water and Poverty in the Southwest, F. Lee Brown and Helen M. Ingram, (Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1987), 217 pp.

Water and Poverty in the Southwest is an examination of the effects that water allocation and distribution has upon the rural poor in the Southwestern United States. It addresses issues affecting Native American and Hispanic peoples.

Wilderness Economics and Policy, Lloyd C. Irland, (Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1979), 218 pp.

Wilderness Economics and Policy is a brief examination of the public mandate for preservation and governmental attempts at implementation. It is a more comprehensive examination of the economics of preservation.

Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy, Lori Gruen &Dale Jamieson, (eds), (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 362 pp.

Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy is an examination of environmental philosophy. The editors combine the writings of prominent moral philosophers from Aristotle and John Locke to Bernard Williams and Jonathan Glover with contemporary environmental philosophers in an attempt to "... illuminate some of the connections between environmental philosophy and the philosophical tradition."

Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley, William L. Kahrl, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 574pp.

Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley while ostensibly concerning California water issues inapplicable to water issues in the Western United States in general. This work is an examination of both the politics and causes of the problems surrounding water resource allocation.

Saving the Hidden Treasure: The Evolution of Ground Water Policy, Henry C. Kenski, (California: Regina Books, 1990), 156 pp.

Saving the Hidden Treasure: The Evolution of Ground Water Policy is an examination of the development of groundwater into a political issue and the subsequent Federal, State and local attempts to protect this resource.

People Centered Development: Contributions toward Theory and Planning Frameworks, ed. David C. Korten and Rudi Klauss, (Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 1984), 333pp.

People Centered Development: Contributions toward Theory and Planning Frameworks is an examination of the gradual shift from production centered development to human-centered development, with particular attention paid to the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of human-centered development.

Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis, T. R. Lakshmanan & P. Nijkamp, (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1980), 198 pp.

Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis is, as the title suggests, an examination to interactions. More specifically, the authors examine the role of modeling in the formulation of environmental policy.

The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future, Richard D. Lamm and Michael McCarthy, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982), 33 pp.

The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future is an examination of the change to the American West which has resulted from the economic imperative which has been administrated by the federal government which has, the authors assert, used the West as a colonial possession to be exploited. Richard D. Lamm, one of the authors, is a former governor of Colorado.

Colorado's Water Resources, League of Women Voters of Colorado, Inc., (Colorado: 1958), 48pp.

Colorado's Water Resources is an examination on Colorado's water supply, the legal bases for its use, the prospect of increasing the supply through engineering and conservative use, and the administration of water and water policy.

Reinventing Nature? Response to Postmodern Deconstructionism, Michel E. Soule & Gary Lease (eds), (Washington DC: Island Press, 1995), 173pp.

Reinventing Nature? Response to Postmodern Deconstructionism is a philosophical response to postmodern deconstructionism which questions the concepts of nature and wilderness in a way that potentially threatens their existence. The collection of nine freestanding essays each addresses as separate criticism of postmodern deconstructionism.

Environment and the Poor: Development Strategies for a Common Agenda, H. Jeffrey Leonard, (New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1989), 215 pp.

Environment and the Poor: Development Strategies for a Common Agenda asserts that poverty and environmental preservation are often at loggerheads. Where this is the case one must develop a strategy whereby the associated problems of poverty and environmental destruction are tackled jointly.

Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation, Karen T. Litfin, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 245pp.

Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation is an examination of the role of scientific knowledge in both world politics and the role of power in scientific knowledge. This work also explores the role of such knowledge in the Montreal Protocol and in efforts to mitigate the ozone problem.

Reopening the Western Frontier, ed. Ed Marston, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1989), 311 pp.

Reopening the Western Frontier is a collection of the work of multiple authors who are regular contributors to High Country News a newspaper published in western Colorado with its focus on the land use and environmental issues facing the Western United States.

For the Conservation of the Earth, Vance Martin, (ed), (Colorado: Fulcrum, Inc., 1988), 418 pp.

For the Conservation of the Earth is the edited form of the proceedings of the 4th World Wilderness Congress of 1987. This work contains the work of multiple authors who address the degradation of the world's natural resource base, as evidenced by diminishing wilderness areas and increasing air and water pollution.

Handbook for Environmental Planning: The Social Consequences for Environmental Change, James McEvoy III and Thomas Dietz (eds), (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1977), 316 pp.

Handbook for Environmental Planning: The Social Consequences for Environmental Change is an examination of the social consequences caused by environmental changes. Specifically, the authors address the social impacts in the fields of: law, demography, land use, economics, and transportation.

Terrestrial Ecosystems, John D. Aber & Jerry M. Melillo, (Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing, 1991).

Terrestrial Ecosystems is the text chosen by Dr. Tim Seastedt for the EPO Biology course Ecosystem Ecology (EPOB 4170/5170). Aber and Melillo present the overview of ecosystems necessary to understand environmental problems affecting those ecosystems.

Mediation of Environmental Disputes: A Source Book, Scott Mernitz, (NewYork: Praeger Publishers, 1980), 202 pp.

Mediation of Environmental Disputes: A Source Book is an examination ofthe use of mediation of environmental disputes and offers advice to themediator as well as environmental conflict analysis methods.

The Salty Colorado, Taylor O. Miller, Gary D. Weatherford, John E. Thorson, (Washington DC: The Conservation Foundation Press, 1986), 93pp.

The Salty Colorado, is an in depth examination of the salinity problem inthe Colorado River Basin. It addresses: the problem itself, a catalog ofmitigation efforts already attempted, and future possibilities.

Sustainable Development of the Biosphere, William C. Clark and R. E. Munn, (eds), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 475 pp.

Sustainable Development of the Biosphere is an examination of human development and the world environment, and the social response to that interaction. The work was published under the auspices of the International Institutes for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.

Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Nash, (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1967), 288pp.

Wilderness and the American Mind is an examination, both cultural and philosophical, of the evolution of the American concept of wilderness. Nash employs the work of historical and contemporary figures who wrote from a Western perspective about the American concept of wilderness.

The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, Roderick FrazierNash, (Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), 278pp.

The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, according to theauthor, is "... concerned with the history and implications of the idea that morality ought to include the relationship of humans to nature." This work focuses upon the intellectual history of this idea and thus presents the philosophical foundations of environmental ethics.

Public lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management, Robert H. Nelson, (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1995), 364pp.

Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management is an examination of scientific management as it has, or more accurately has not, been applied to public lands. It offers a history of the changing conceptions of public lands and offers a re- conceptualization for future use.

Reforming the Forest Service, Randal O'Toole, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 237 pp.

Reforming the Forest Service is an examination of the need for reform in the Forest Service through consideration of the failures of the Forest Service and remedies for those failures.

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Elinor Ostrom, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 270 pp.

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action is an examination of the nature of the commons, and the evolution and development of self- organization and self-governance of those commons.

Conflicts and Cooperation in Managing Environmental Resources, ed. Rdiger Pethig, (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992), 332 pp.

Conflicts and Cooperation in Managing Environmental Resources is an examination of the international dimensions of environmental resources and the monitoring and enforcement of agreements regarding same.

Agriculture and the Environment, Tim T. Phipps, Peirre R. Crosson, and Kent A. Price, (eds), (Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1986), 295 pp.

Agriculture and the Environment is a collection of papers which were presented at the Conference on Agriculture and the Environment in 1986, sponsored by the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy at Resources for the Future. This work addresses environmental problems confronting agriculture and environmental policy analysis as it relates to agriculture.

The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance and the End of American Technological Optimism, Charles Piller, (U. S. : Basic Books, 1991), 277pp.

The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance and the End of American Technological Optimism is an examination of the growing concern about modern science and industry including: new biological capabilities, biomedical research and the prospect for democratic decision-making about science and technology.

Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities: The NIMBY Syndrome, (New York: Auburn House, 1991), 172 pp.

Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities: The NIMBY Syndrome is a careful examination of the political, social, cultural and psychological components of siting hazardous waste treatment facilities.

Reform and Democratic Development, Roy L. Prosterman and Jeffrey M. Riedinger, (Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 303 pp.

Land Reform and Democratic Development is an argument for the programs and policies proposed by the authors which, they assert, would reduce both world hunger and world population within a generation.

Physical Principles of Remote Sensing, W. G. Rees, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 237pp.

Physical Principles of Remote Sensing is a technical examination and explanation of remote sensing of the environment. Each chapter is followed by problems upon which to test one's understanding of the chapter's focus.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner, (New York: Viking, 1986), 564 pp.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water is a history and an examination of the importance of water to the Western United States. The author addresses water use issues from the earliest settlement of the West by Europeans to the contemporary problem of increasing salinity in the Colorado River Basin.

To Choose a Future: Resource and Environmental Consequences of Alternative Growth Paths, Ronald G. Ridker and William D. Watson, (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1908), 459 pp.

To Choose a Future: Resource and Environmental Consequences of Alternative Growth Paths is and examination "... of alternative population and economic growth rates, technological change, and trade, environmental, and nuclear policies ... using large-scale, computer-based models, as well as more conventional methods".

The Forest and the Trees, Gordon Robinson, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 248 pp.

The Forest and the Trees is an examination of the history of forestry in the United States and the goal of multiple use, with suggestions for improving forest management.

The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change, Ian H. Rowlands, (New York: Manchester University Press, 1995), 267 pp.

The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change is an examination of the political nature of the theoretical and scientific bases for the concept of atmospheric change. It offers a chronology of the politics of ozone layer depletion and climate change. It also examines the equity of these two issues in a comparison of the contributions to both climate change and ozone layer depletion made by Northern and Southern nations.

U. S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History, William D. Rowley, (Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1985), 260 pp.

U. S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History is, as its title succinctly states, a history of the U. S. Forest Services' grazing and range-land management.

Holistic Resource Management, Allan Savory, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 545 pp.

Holistic Resource Management is an examination of an alternative to traditional resource management which, the author asserts will be more beneficial for the ecosystems affected by such management.

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, William H. Schlesinger, (California: Academic Press Inc., 1991), 351pp.

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, is an in depth examination of the processes, reactions and global cycles of energy, chemicals and nutrients on the planet. It offers a secure foundation from which to pursue particular global change topics with greater specificity.

Public Control of Environmental Health Hazards, E. Cuyler Hammond &Irving J. Selikoff, (New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1979), 405pp.

Public Control of Environmental Health Hazards is an examination of the consequences of environmental hazards to human health and approaches to public control of these hazards. This work also addresses the constraints on this control and the media's responsibilities toward mitigation of these constraints.

Models of Man: Social and Rational, Herbert A. Simon, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1957), 279 pp.

Models of Man: Social and Rational is, according to the author, a collection of mathematical essays on rational human behavior in a social setting. The work employs mathematical formulae in support of the author's assertions regarding human behavior.

Energy Development in the Southwest: Problems of Water, Fish and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Walter O. Spofford, Jr., Alfred L. Parker, and Allen V. Kneese, (eds), (Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1980), 541 pp.

Energy Development in the Southwest: Problems of Water, Fish and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin is a comprehensive examination of the effects on the species and habitat of the Colorado River Basin of the development of energy sources, both hydroelectric power development and surface coal mining. The text is supported by numerous tables, graphs, maps and charts.

Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment, W. Edward Stead, Jean Garner Stead, (California: Sage Publications, 1992), 201 pp.

Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment is an examination of the social, scientific, psychological and economic components of making environmentally sensitive business decisions. In addition, the work offers a "... new strategic decision-making frame-work that will aid in achieving long-term economic success within the limits of the ecosystem."

Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions, Paul C. Stern, Oran R. Young and Daniel Druckman, (eds), (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1992, 292 pp.

Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions is an examination of the human sources, consequences and responses to the hydrological, climatological and biological global scale change.

The Gnat is Older than Man: Global Environment and Human Agenda, Christopher D. Stone, (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993), 330 pp.

The Gnat is Older than Man: Global Environment and Human Agenda will be of interest to those who seek an understanding of human effects on the global environment. The author asserts, in the first chapter, that "The earth has a cancer, and the cancer is man". Herein is contained an examination of the findings of the Rio conference (UNCED) and the prognosis for social change in the face of uncertainty. The second chapter examines the condition of the earth from a legal perspective with consideration of a nation's abuse of its own environment.

Economics for the Wilds, Timothy M. Swanson and Edward B. Barbier, (eds), (Washington DC: Island Press, 1992), 226 pp.

Economics for the Wilds attempts to reconcile economic development with conservation of natural resources. That is, the editors assert that if properly constructed, economics can account for the value, and assure the conservation of, natural resources.

Climatic Change and World Affairs, Crispin Tickell, (Maryland: University Press of America Inc., 1986), 76 pp.

Climatic Change and World Affairs is an examination of human response to climate change with a call for action by the author.

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, T. Tietenberg, (Illinois: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1984), 482pp.

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is a comprehensive examination of the application of economics to environmental problems. It addresses basic theoretical economics and its application to: the population problem, depletable and renewable resources, water and air pollution.

Sustainable Environmental Management: Principles and Practice, ed. R. Kerry Turner, (Colorado: Westview Press, 1988), 289 pp.

Sustainable Environmental Management: Principles and Practice will be of interest to those who seek an understanding of the relationship between sustainable growth and development principles, and the practice of same.

Climate Change and US Water Resources, Paul E. Waggoner (ed), (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990), 477pp.

Climate Change and US Water Resources is a careful examination of the effect of the greenhouse effect (global warming as a result of increases in CO2 and ozone depletion) on the supply of and demand for water resources. The work is comprised of multiple free-standing essays.

Wildlife Policies in the U S National Parks, Frederic H. Wagner, Ronald Foresta, R. Bruce Gill, Dale R. McCullough, Michael R. Pelton, William F. Porter, Hal Salwasser, (Washington DC: Island Press, 1995), 228 pp.

Wildlife Policies in the U S National Parks is "... the result of a five-year review of management policies for biological resources in the System, with special attention to the wildlife." This work addresses the natural resources values, goals and policies of the system.

Hazardous Waste Site Management: Water Quality Issues, Water Science and Technology Board, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1988), 201pp.

Hazardous Waste Site Management: Water Quality Issues is a collection of papers which were presented at a 1985 Water Sciences and Technology Board colloquium series which focused on emerging issues in water science and technology.

Conflict and Crisis in Rural America, Larry W. Waterfield, (New York: Praeger, 1986), 232 pp.

Conflict and Crisis in Rural America is an examination of the nature of rural America and its relationship to urban America. This work discusses the conflicts which increasingly arise between the two regions over land use and growth issues.

The Reporter's Environmental Handbook, Bernadette West, Peter M. Sandman, Michael R. Greenberg, (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995), 328 pp.

The Reporter's Environmental Handbook is, as the title implies, a handbook style-text for use by journalists who are responsible for reporting on environmental issues. It offers a very basic background in multiple environmental issues.

International Banks and the Environment - From Growth to Sustainability: An Unfinished Agenda, Raymond F. Mikesell and Larry Williams, (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1992), 292 pp.

International Banks and the Environment - From Growth to Sustainability: An Unfinished Agenda is an examination and evaluation of the projects undertaken in the world's poorest countries with funds from Multilateral Development Banks (primarily The World Bank) for the degree to which the projects promote sustainable development.

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