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    Sustainable resource management : reality or illusion? / edited by Peter N. Nemetz.

    • Title:Sustainable resource management : reality or illusion? / edited by Peter N. Nemetz.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Nemetz, Peter N., 1944-
    • Published/Created:Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2007].
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Sustainable development.
    • Description:ix, 445 pages.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781845425944 (hardcover)
      1845425944 (hardcover)
    • Contents:Pt. I. Introduction and overview
      Pt. II. Some successes on the road to sustainability
      1. Emissions trading : US experience implementing multi-state cap and trade programs / Brian J. McLean
      2. Green tax reforms in OECD countries : an overview / Jean-Philippe Barde and Nils Axel Braathen
      3. Mid-course correction : toward a sustainable enterprise / Ray Anderson
      Pt. III. Challenges within specific resource domains
      4. Reconciling global warming and increasing energy demand / Burton Richter
      5. Global consumption from the perspective of population health / Clyde Hertzman
      6. Fisheries and coastal ecosystems : the need for integrated management / Daniel Pauly and Ratana Chuenpagdee
      7. Fatal harvest : old and new dimensions of the ecological tragedy of modern agriculture / Miguel A. Altieri
      8. Is conservation a lost cause? / Anthony R. E. Sinclair
      9. myth, reality and social process of sustainable forest management / Jane Lister
      10. Sustainability : a focus on forests and forestry / J. P. (Hamish) Kimmins
      11. Tropical forest management systems as economic and sustainable / Roger A. Sedjo
      Pt. IV. conceptual challenges
      12. Accounting for the environment : can industrial ecology pay double dividends for business? / W. G. B. Smith
      13. Better financial disclosure protects investors and the environment / Robert Repetio
      14. challenge of the 21st century : setting the real bottom line / David T. Suzuki
      15. Is humanity fatally successful? / William E. Pees
      16. Measuring genuine progress / Ronald Colman.
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