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Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America (Hardcover)
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Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America (Hardcover)
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The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its
climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute
to both the richness of the nation's natural heritage and the
complexities involved in managing its resources. A follow-up to
RFF's popular America's Renewable Resources (1990), Perspectives on
Sustainable Resources in America updates readers about the current
challenges involved in managing America's natural resources,
especially in light of the increasing emphasis on sustainability
and ecosystem approaches to management. Written to inform general
audiences and students, as well as to engage the interest of
experts, the book includes assessments by some of the nation's most
renowned scholars in natural resource economics and policy. An
introductory chapter critically examines the concept of
sustainability as it has been developed in recent years and asks
how the concept might apply to individual resource systems. It
considers the interrelatedness of ecosystem, economic, and social
sustainability; the paradigms of resource sufficiency and
functional integrity; and the contrast between weak and strong
sustainability. The chapters that follow examine America's
experience with forests, water, agricultural soils, and wildlife.
Highlighting the adaptability and resilience of resource systems,
each chapter provides a description of the physical characteristics
of the resource, a history of its use, a policy history, and a
review of ongoing debates in management and policy. Perspectives on
Sustainable Resources in America concludes with an innovative
treatment of biodiversity as a natural resource. The chapter
reviews the definitions of biodiversity, the ecological and
economic meanings of biodiversity, and current efforts to preserve
biodiversity, especially through regulatory approaches.
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