Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile

Carl J Bauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 14
• In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening priva... Lees meer

Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture: Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 12
• Today the goal of designing highly productive, sustainable agricultural produc- tion systems is at the forefront of the agricultural research agenda a... Lees meer

Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding:

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 16
• Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice responds to concerns about the loss of valuable geneti... Lees meer

Economics of Unconventional Shale Gas Development

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 45
• This book examines the economics and related impacts of unconventional shale gas development. While focusing on the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the ... Lees meer

New Frontiers in Natural Resources Management in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 53
• This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations' Sustainabl... Lees meer

Biotechnology Regulation and Trade

Stuart J Smyth, William A Kerr, Peter W B Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 51
• This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming t... Lees meer

Braving the Currents

Tamra Pearson D'Estree, Bonnie B G Colby

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 26
• Braving the Currents systematically identifies, applies, and evaluates criteria to define success in complex multi-party natural resource disputes. Th... Lees meer

Frontiers in Water Resource Economics

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 29
• Most of the books published previously in the field of water resource eco- nomics focus on particular aspects of water economics such as institutions,... Lees meer

Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 28
• Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia: An Overview of Issues and Challenges.- Economic Reform and Performance in Central Asia.- A... Lees meer

Handbook of Merger Control and Environmental Policy

Luis Gautier, Mahelet G Fikru

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 59
• This book presents an integrated theory of firms' strategies and two types of policies, namely environmental policies, and merger control policies. It... Lees meer

The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 49
• Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by farmers around the world at impressive rates. In 201... Lees meer

Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 50
• This book assesses recent developments in the analysis of agricultural policy and water resource management, and highlights the utility and theoretica... Lees meer

A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 23
• After all the research on agricultural risk to date, the treatment of risk in agricultural research is far from harmonious. Many competing risk models... Lees meer

Knowledge Generation and Technical Change

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 19
• Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has inc... Lees meer

Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund

Ole Bjørn Røste

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 54
• This book elaborates on how Norway has managed to convert a large fraction of its endowment of hydrocarbons below the seabed of Norwegian waters into ... Lees meer

Climate Smart Agriculture

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 52
• This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license. The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agricultur... Lees meer

Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil

Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, David Zilberman

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 43
• The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in ad... Lees meer

Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy: Volume II

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 40
• It will also include a historical and institutional background on the biofuel industry in Brazil that has global lessons, and later, provide a technic... Lees meer

Competition and Conflicts on Resource Use

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 46
• This book reflects on the causes of resource-based conflicts and competition, and presents solutions for safely and sustainably providing resources wi... Lees meer

Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 50
• This book assesses recent developments in the analysis of agricultural policy and water resource management, and highlights the utility and theoretica... Lees meer

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change for Sustainable Growth

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 47
• The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic ... Lees meer

Management of Shared Groundwater Resources

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 18
• Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (i.e. not in glaciers and polar caps) are underground. As the population grows and demand... Lees meer

The Global Impact of Unconventional Shale Gas Development

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 39
• This book discusses the economic, political, and environmental issues surrounding the international exploration and exploitation of conventional and u... Lees meer

Diplomacy on the Jordan

Munther J Haddadin

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Resource Management and Policy | nr. 21
• The Jordan River has attracted the attention of people around the world. The natives call it "the Shari'a," or the Code [of God.] The religious import... Lees meer