Exploitation Conservation Preservation
A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resource Use
4. Auflage Oktober 2003
400 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Focusing on the environment and environmental policy, this text examines the dynamic interplay among the physical, economic, social, and political forces impacting the major natural resource issues of today's world. Written by authors with contrasting scientific and philosophical views, it presents a wide range of opinions and interpretations of these issues that results in a balanced review and solid basis for discussion. The inclusion of up-to-the minute, critical quantitative data on natural resource conditions and use, along with important Internet references, inform students while preparing them to analyze and evaluate the significance of resource patterns and trends as objectively as possible.
* Economics of Natural Resources
* Environmental History, Politics, and Decision Making
* Ecologic Perspectives on Natural Resources
* The Human Population
* Agriculture and Food Production
* Forests
* Biodiversity and Habitat
* Marine Resources: Common Property Dilemmas
* Water Quantity and Quality
* The Air Resource and Urban Air Quality
* Regional and Global Atmospheric Change
* Non-fuel Minerals
* Energy Resources
* The Transition to a Global Sustainable Society
Glossary
Index
in the previous editions found it to be an excellent, and balanced,
text for my Conservation of Natural Resources course. My students
have apprecriated the approach taken by the authors in their
clarity, focus, and presentation of material without over reliance
on data tables and statisticalmethodology."
Wilbur Hugli, University of West Florida
"The book is really good in the sense that it tries to
incoporate the applications of various theories in a much
simplified version. Students find such simplified but complete
information very useful. My students liked this book very much.
This is a great book for Conservation Geography students."
Keshav Bhattarai, Central Missouri State
University
