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New approaches to managing the commons, based on recent theoretical and empirical research.

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Finally, section four looks to the future of and new approaches to business and environmental problems, considering the need to move environmental issues into the business school and to retool cultures for an ecologically sound future.

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The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and businesses.

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The cryosphere encompasses the Earth's snow and ice masses. It is a critical part of our planet's climate system, one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. This title introduces readers to the cryosphere and the role it plays in our global climate system.

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Picks apart the intellectual design and ambitions of the neoconservative American foreign policy. This book draws on the contrary visions of Hobbes, Kant, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Isaiah Berlin in order to disclose the contours of conflict in the age of geo-civil war, and to illuminate the challenges and risks of contemporary democracy.

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The Dirty Dozen are the 12 organochloride pesticides and industrial chemicals that comprise the short list for elimination by the Stockholm Convention. In this volume, Johansen offers undergraduates and general readers an account of the toxins and what toll they have taken.

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A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair.

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The theory of plate tectonics predicted the existence of hydrothermal vents, but they were not discovered until 1977. Since then the sites have attracted teams of scientists seeking to understand how life can thrive in what would seem to be intolerable or extreme conditions of temperature and fluid chemistry. This is an account of this research.

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It also develops a theoretical framework for understanding why regional high-technology development occurs and the role policy can play in the process.

This work will be of interest to development planners and scholars in the fields of economic geography, development economics, and regional development.

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The papers collected here, originally presented at a seminar cosponsored by the East-West Center and the Asian Productivity Organization, address the links between energy sector performance and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region.

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A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present.

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Increasingly, the planet is threatened by a wide variety of real and potential complex environmental problems, including the warming of the earth, the loss of biodiversity, waste mismanagement, deforestation, desertification, hazardous waste disposal, acid precipitation, and pollution of many sorts.

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This resource, by a professor of ecology and environmental science, features the latest information on the global environmental crisis in the 20th century.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is a young and dynamic federal agency facing the challenges of modern environmental protection.

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Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these sometimes dishonest This book probes such question by reviewing the empirical data and game theory models available, and by asking how well theory matches data.

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Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book provides general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental care vary so widely between species Why do only females care for eggs and young in some animals, only males in others, and both parents in a few

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A collection of essays that offer Quammen's perspective on nature and the world around. He brings to life the pageant of nature, ranging from tales of vegetarian piranha and dogs without voices, to a profile of the scientists searching for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.