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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.

Natural Resources: Bureaucratic Myths and Environmental Management, Richard L. Stroup and John A. Baden, (Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1983), 137 pp.

Natural Resources: Bureaucratic Myths and Environmental Management is an examination of environmental management from the perspective that property rights are the underlying value and the main issue to be addressed in the exploitation of natural resources.

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.

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).

Conflicts over Resource Ownership: The Use of Public Policy by Private Interests, Albert M. Church, (Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1982), 221pp.

Conflicts over Resource Ownership: The Use of Public Policy by Private Interests concerns the competition between private parties for the ownership and control of natural resources and the profits derived therefrom.

For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Herman E. Daly & John B. Cobb Jr., with contributions by Clifford W. Cobb, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), 476pp.

For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future is an examination of the possibility of using contemporary economic theory to structure an economy which is supportive of community, the environment and a sustainable future.

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.

Greening Business: Managing for Sustainable Development, John Davis, (Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 1991), 208 pp.

Greening Business: Managing for Sustainable Development is an examination of the response of business to the environmental movement. Specifically, this work examines the ways in which business has become more sensitive to the environmental concerns of consumers.

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.

Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, R. Dorfman & N. S. Dorfman (eds.), (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1972), 426pp.

Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings is a selection of readings which focus on the general topics of: formal analysis of the applicability of economic theory to environmental problems, policies for environmental protection grounded in an economic approach, support for the assertion that the roots of environmental degradation lie in the conflict between environmental protection and economic growth, and finally measuring costs and benefits of environmental goods.

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.

The Benefits of Environmental Improvement: Theory and Practice, A. Myrick Freeman III, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 272pp.

The Benefits of Environmental Improvement: Theory and Practice is primarily a market approach to the resolution of the problem of environmental degradation. That is, the author offers economic reasons and justifications for improving the natural environment.

The Economics of Hope: Essays on Technical Change, Economic Growth and the Environment, Christopher Freeman, (New York: Pinter Publishers, 1992), 243 pp.

The Economics of Hope: Essays on Technical Change, Economic Growth and the Environment is an examination of the theory that technical change drives economic growth. Further, the author acknowledges that it is economic growth and technological change that have, historically, negatively impacted the environment, and he proposes that non-economic values be included in considerations of economic growth.

Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development: Building on Brundtland, Robert Goodland, Herman Daly, Salah El Serafy, Bernd von Droste, (eds), (New York: UNESCO, 1991), 98 pp.

Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development: Building on Brundtland is an examination of the concept of, and the planning for, sustainable economic growth since the Brundtland Commission Report of 1987, Our Common Future.

Decisions by the Numbers, Dipak K. Gupta, (Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994), 525pp.

Decisions by the Numbers is a thorough examination of the methods, justification and application of quantitative analysis as a basis for public policy decision-making. The assumptions underlying Dipak Gupta's work are: quantitative analysis is objective analysis, and objective analysis is what is needed to make the best decisions in public policy administration. This work is useful for decision-makers who rely on quantitative analysis to make decisions or must understand administrative procedures which rely upon such analysis.

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.

Natural Resource and Environmental Information for Decisionmaking, Hassan M. Hassan and Charles Hutchinson (eds), (Washington DC: The World Bank, 1992), 164 pp.

Natural Resource and Environmental Information for Decisionmaking is a publication of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The World Bank). It addresses the its use of information in the decision-making process.

The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future, Michael Jacobs, Massachusetts: Pluto Press, 1991), 304pp.

The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future is an examination of the objectives of Sustainable Development, a program to achieve these objectives and a method for measuring its effectiveness.

Environomics: The Economics of Environmentally Safe Prosperity, Farid A. Khavari, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993), 189 pp.

Environomics: The Economics of Environmentally Safe Prosperity explores ways of attaining general economic prosperity while improving or at least sustaining environmental conditions. The author argues that present forms of economic growth degrade the environment, and are not sustainable in the long term.

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.

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.

Environmental Law and Policy, Peter S. Menell and Richard B. Stewart, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994), 1213 pp.

Environmental Law and Policy is a comprehensive examination of themultiplicity of legal and policy issues surrounding environmental degradation. It explores the economic and common law foundations for statutory and policyapproaches to environmental degradation mitigation efforts.

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.

Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-Being and the Natural World, John O'Neill, (New York: Routledge, 1993), 219pp.

Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-Being and the Natural World is a philosophical examination of what the author proposes to be an adequate foundation for policy- making and political decisions about environmental issues. The author argues for a relationship between the intrinsic value of the natural world and human well-being.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wetlands Protection: The Role of Economics, Paul F. Scodari, (Washington D.C.: Environmental Law Institute, 1990), 89 pp.

Wetlands Protection: The Role of Economics is an examination of the science of wetland valuation, its implementation and use in natural resource damage assessment.

The Social Response to Environmental Risk: Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty, Daniel W. Bromley & Kathleen Segerson (eds), (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992), 206pp.

The Social Response to Environmental Risk: Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty is an overview of the perceptions and valuation of environmental risk. This work is heavily influenced by economic theory.

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."

A Primer for Policy Analysis, E. Stokey and R. Zeckhauser, (New York: W. W. Norton and Company Inc., 1978), 356 pp.

A Primer for Policy Analysis is built on the implicit assumption that policy-making decisions are economic decisions. Thus, it is an exposition of economic theory applied to policy-making.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity, and Economic Efficiency, Volume 9 in Man and the Biosphere Series, M. D. Young, (Paris: UNESCO, 1992) 171pp.

Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity, and Economic Efficiency is an examination of three overall topics. The author considers investing for a future, concepts, conditions and principles affecting that investment, and opportunities for change.

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