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Environmental Abstracts

Pesticides in World Agriculture: The Politics of International Regulation, Robert Boardman, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 213pp.

Pesticides in World Agriculture: The Politics of International Regulation is an examination of the problem of pesticide use in agriculture and the difficulties of achieving international regulation of same.

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.

Federal Public Land and Resources Law, Third edition, G. C. Coggins, C. F. Wilkinson, J. D. Leshy, (Westbury New York: The Foundation Press Inc., 1993), 1092pp.

Federal Public Land and Resources Law offers a succinct, yet comprehensive history of public lands prefatory to an in depth examination of authority on public lands and legal precedent concerning natural resources.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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