Approaching an uncertain future without Fidel Castro, and still reeling from a downturn at the end of the cold war, Cuba must act decisively to improve its economy and living conditions.
Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governan
Over the years governments at the local, state, and federal levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations to try to address their environmental and natural resource management tasks. This title argues that the key to successful and long-lasting innovation must be a realistic understanding of the challenges that face it.
Much of the existing discourse on energy governance deals with hard security issues but neglects the challenges to global governance. Global Energy Governance fills this gap with perspectives on how regulatory institutions can ensure reliable sources of energy, evaluate financial risk, and provide emergency response mechanisms to deal with ......
The Restoration of Nature in America's National Parks
By the turn of the millennium, it had become painfully apparent that the United States had made some serious misjudgments in its interactions with the natural world.
Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (""Drill, baby, drill!""), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy.
Enriched with personal anecdotes of the author's trips throughout the national parks of North America, this book examines changes in the park services of the United States and Canada over the past fifteen years. William Lowry describes the many challenges facing the parks and the abilities of the agencies to deal with them.
The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and legal dimensions and evaluates the ......
Renewable Resource Policy is a comprehensive volume covering the history, laws, and important national policies that affect renewable resource management. The author traces the history of renewable natural resource policy and management in the United States, describes the major federal agencies and their functions, and examines ......
Looks at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others generate little interest or action. This title examines the expansion and containment of political conflict around forest policies in the United States and Canada.
