by Paul Collier, Anthony J. Venables (2011)
"The study of natural resource extraction in resource-rich countries often shows that plunder, rather than prosperity, has become the norm. Management of natural resources differs widely in every state; a close examination of the decision making chains in various states highlights the key principles that need to be followed to avoid distortion and dependence. This book consists of eight case studies investigating the political economy of the decision chain, revealing where various states have met with success, or failed disastrously. This original research provides a unique insight into how different countries have handled their resource extraction. This book is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers working across development economics and natural resource economics. "--
Beth Beloff, Marianne Lines, Dicksen Tanzil
Addressing some of the most challenging issues of the industrial world today including, risk and security, green building design, design for green chemistry, globalization, and corporate responsibility, this book provides managers with a practical framework to identify and assess options for improving the sustainability of their firm.
S.A. El-Swaify and D.S. Yakowitz
Multiple Objective Decision Making for Land, Water and Environmental Management explores the following major themes: Relevance of multiple objective decision support systems (MODSS) for addressing user needs, various sectors of society, and different levels of clientele; MODSS methodologies, tools, components, and integration; economic, social, cultural, and policy issues and applications (including risk assessment, conflict resolution, and sustainable development); and applicability to global and regional issues, especially in Asia and the Pacific, including degradation processes in small island ecosystems and major river basins and competitive uses of water for agriculture and aquaculture. This book represents a forum for those interested in transforming available information into quantitative aids that facilitate decision making and offer viable solutions. It illustrates the diversity of perspectives and points of view in managing the natural resource base of our global community.
John Felleman
The stewardship of land and water natural resources is ultimately the responsibility of the owners, managers, and users of these resources. The environmental movement addressed these complex issues through an ever growing complex of top down federal, state, and local regulations each focusing on a narrow topics such as water pollution . The information revolution, which paralled these regulations, compartmentalized the data and information used in regualtion into numerous independent "data silos". This non techniacal book provides a graphic approach to undertanding how this information system has evolved, and presents recommendations on how to bridge the information gap between bureaucratic processess and knowledge needs of the stewards.
Philip Cooke
"This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. First, natural resource endowments explained the formation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century industrial districts. Today geographical concentrations of scientific and creative knowledge are the key resource. But these require a support system, ranging from major injections of basis research funding, to varieties of financial investment and management, and specialist incubators for economic value to be realized. These are also specialized forms of knowledge that contribute to a serious imbalance in the distribution of economic opportunity."--Jacket.