The Challenge of Rural Electrification

Douglas F Barnes

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion r... Lees meer

Choosing Safety

Michael V Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider sa... Lees meer

Collaborative Environmental Management

Tomas M Koontz, Toddi A Steelman, Joann Carmin, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Cassandra Moseley, Craig W Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• Collaboration has become a popular approach to environmental policy, planning, and management. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organization... Lees meer

On Borrowed Time

John E Tilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• The sharp rise in mineral use has revived concern about scarcity. Economist John Tilton responds by analyzing recent trends in the consumption and ava... Lees meer

Collective Action

Russell Hardin

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting thei... Lees meer

Negotiated Learning

• Paperback | Engels | Rff Press
• The first book to critically examine how monitoring can be an effective tool in participatory resource management, Negotiated Learning draws on the fi... Lees meer

Water Resources in Jordan

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary book to address water policy in Jordan. Edited by the former Minister of Water and Irrigation of J... Lees meer

Pricing Irrigation Water

Yacov Tsur

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• As globalization links economies, the value of a country's irrigation water becomes increasingly sensitive to competitive forces in world markets. Wat... Lees meer

Extending the Cure

Ramanan Laxminarayan, Anup Malani, David Howard, David L Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Rff Press
• Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sust... Lees meer

From the Corn Belt to the Gulf

• Paperback | Engels | Rff Press
• Nutrients from farms in the Mississippi River Basin are the leading cause of the Gulf of Mexico's 'Dead Zone, ' a 5,000 to 7,000 square mile region wh... Lees meer