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Environmental management: readings and case studies/ edited by Lewis Owen and Tim Unwin

Contributor(s): Owen, Lewis, ed | Unwin, Tim, edMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: (Blackwell readers on the natural environment)Publication details: Oxford: Blackwell, 1997Description: xii, 492 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN: 9780631201168Subject(s): Environmental management | Environmental degradation | Environmental ScienceDDC classification: 363.705

Contents:

Managing the biosphere. the future of biodiversity / Stuart L. Pimm, Gareth J. Russell, John J. Gittleman, and Thomas M. Brooks ; catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef / Terence P. Hughes ; the world's imperiled fish / Carl Safina ; valuation of an Amazonian rainforest / Charles M. Peters, Alwyn H. Gentry, and Robert O. Mendelsohn ; making biodiversity conservation profitable: a case study of the Merk/INBio agreement / Elissa Blum -- predicting and managing atmospheric change. evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record / W. Dansgaard, S.J. Johnsen, H.B. Clausen, D. Dahl-Jensen, N.S. Gundestrup, C.u. Hammer, C.S. Hvidberg, J.P. Steffensen, A.E. Sveninbrjonsdotter, J. Jouzel, and G. Bond ; atmospheric effects of the Mt Pinatubo eruption / M. Patrick McCormick, Larry W. Thompson, and Charles R. Trepte ; air pollution in the world's megacities / United Nations environment Programme and the World health Organization ; on-road vehicle emissions: regulations, costs, and benefits / Stuart P. Beaton, Gary A. Bishop, Yi Zhang, Lowell L. Ashbaugh, Douglas R. Lawson, and Donald H. Stedman ; climate change (a) the intergovernmental panel on climate chang scientific assessment -- policymaker's summary / J.T. Houghton, G.J. Jenkins, and J.J. Ephiraums (b) radiative forcing of climate -- executive summary / J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, J. Bruce, Lee Hoesung, B.A. Callander, E. Haites, N. Harris, and K. Maskell ; future sea level rise: environmental and socio-political considerations / Richard A. Warrick and Atiq A. Rahman ; responding to the El Nino souther oscillation / Maryam Golnaraghi and Rajiv Kaul -- reducing land degradation. environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits / David Pimentel, C. Harvey, P. Resoudarmo, K. Sinclair, D. Kurz, M. Mcnair, D. Crist, L. Shpritz, L Fitton, R. Saffouri, and R. Blair ; tropical deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon: satellite data from 1978-1988 / David Skole and Compton Tucker ; exploring the links between desertification and climate change / Mike Hulme and Mick Kelly ; rush for rock in the highlands / Fred Pearce ; restoring value to the world's degraded lands / Gretche C. Daily -- managing water resources. water, war and peace in the Middle East / Peter H. Gleick ; red tides / Donald M. Anderson ; lessons from intentional oil pollution / Ronald B. Mitchell ; dead in the water / Fred Pearce ; quaternary deposits and groundwater pollution / Donald Daly ; acid rain since 1985-times are changing / T.G. Brydges and R.B. Wilson ; the challenge of the Mississippi floods / Mary Fran Myers and Gilbert F. White ; the biggest dam in the world / Fred Pearce -- environmental economics. the historical development of environmental economics / D.W. Pearce and R.K. Turner ; towards and environmental macroeconomics / Herman E. Daly ; economic instruments for environmental problems: how the patient followed the doctor's orders / Robert W. Hahn ; sustainability: principles and practice R.K. Turner -- political and social agendas. sustainable development: needs, values, rights / Michael Redclift ; the solution to a global crisis / Gro Harlem Brundtland ; agenda 21 / Matthias Koch and Michael Grubb ; equity and environmental policy / Judith Rees ; one world, two cultures: sociology and the environment / Howard Newby ; the third revolution: population, environment and a sustainable world -- executive summary / P. Harrison.

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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	363.7 OWE/E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P08210

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Managing the biosphere. the future of biodiversity / Stuart L. Pimm, Gareth J. Russell, John J. Gittleman, and Thomas M. Brooks ; catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef / Terence P. Hughes ; the world's imperiled fish / Carl Safina ; valuation of an Amazonian rainforest / Charles M. Peters, Alwyn H. Gentry, and Robert O. Mendelsohn ; making biodiversity conservation profitable: a case study of the Merk/INBio agreement / Elissa Blum --
predicting and managing atmospheric change. evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record / W. Dansgaard, S.J. Johnsen, H.B. Clausen, D. Dahl-Jensen, N.S. Gundestrup, C.u. Hammer, C.S. Hvidberg, J.P. Steffensen, A.E. Sveninbrjonsdotter, J. Jouzel, and G. Bond ; atmospheric effects of the Mt Pinatubo eruption / M. Patrick McCormick, Larry W. Thompson, and Charles R. Trepte ; air pollution in the world's megacities / United Nations environment Programme and the World health Organization ; on-road vehicle emissions: regulations, costs, and benefits / Stuart P. Beaton, Gary A. Bishop, Yi Zhang, Lowell L. Ashbaugh, Douglas R. Lawson, and Donald H. Stedman ; climate change (a) the intergovernmental panel on climate chang scientific assessment --
policymaker's summary / J.T. Houghton, G.J. Jenkins, and J.J. Ephiraums (b) radiative forcing of climate --
executive summary / J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, J. Bruce, Lee Hoesung, B.A. Callander, E. Haites, N. Harris, and K. Maskell ; future sea level rise: environmental and socio-political considerations / Richard A. Warrick and Atiq A. Rahman ; responding to the El Nino souther oscillation / Maryam Golnaraghi and Rajiv Kaul --
reducing land degradation. environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits / David Pimentel, C. Harvey, P. Resoudarmo, K. Sinclair, D. Kurz, M. Mcnair, D. Crist, L. Shpritz, L Fitton, R. Saffouri, and R. Blair ; tropical deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon: satellite data from 1978-1988 / David Skole and Compton Tucker ; exploring the links between desertification and climate change / Mike Hulme and Mick Kelly ; rush for rock in the highlands / Fred Pearce ; restoring value to the world's degraded lands / Gretche C. Daily --
managing water resources. water, war and peace in the Middle East / Peter H. Gleick ; red tides / Donald M. Anderson ; lessons from intentional oil pollution / Ronald B. Mitchell ; dead in the water / Fred Pearce ; quaternary deposits and groundwater pollution / Donald Daly ; acid rain since 1985-times are changing / T.G. Brydges and R.B. Wilson ; the challenge of the Mississippi floods / Mary Fran Myers and Gilbert F. White ; the biggest dam in the world / Fred Pearce --
environmental economics. the historical development of environmental economics / D.W. Pearce and R.K. Turner ; towards and environmental macroeconomics / Herman E. Daly ; economic instruments for environmental problems: how the patient followed the doctor's orders / Robert W. Hahn ; sustainability: principles and practice R.K. Turner --
political and social agendas. sustainable development: needs, values, rights / Michael Redclift ; the solution to a global crisis / Gro Harlem Brundtland ; agenda 21 / Matthias Koch and Michael Grubb ; equity and environmental policy / Judith Rees ; one world, two cultures: sociology and the environment / Howard Newby ; the third revolution: population, environment and a sustainable world --
executive summary / P. Harrison.

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