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Environmental Abstracts

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.

Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development, Dharam Gjai and Jessica M. Vivian, (eds), (New York: Routledge, 1992), 347 pp.

Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development is an examination of grassroots action toward Sustainable Development from an historical perspective which offers suggestions for future action.

Public Representation in Environmental Policy-making: The Case of Water Quality Management, Sheldon Kamieniecki, (Colorado: Westview Press, 1980), 126 pp.

Public Representation in Environmental Policy-making: The Case of Water Quality Management is the text of a research project undertaken to assess public participation in environmental policy-making and political leaders' predictions of citizens' views.

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.

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.

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.

Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action, Joseph L. Sax, (New York: Borzoi Books, 1970), 252 pp.

Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action examines the implications for the democratic state of a representative government which delegates authority for the management of natural resources to agencies. Further, it is a proposal for political and environmental activism which will mitigate the problems caused by agency management of these resources.

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.

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