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9781574440775

Environmental Sustainability: Practical Global Applications

by Smith; Fraser
  • ISBN13:

    9781574440775

  • ISBN10:

    1574440772

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9780429525346

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-08-04
  • Publisher: CRC Press

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Summary

This new multi-contributed book covers sustainability issues from an international perspective. Key sustainability principles that have worked around the world are explained in detail. Applications of the principles learned are explored.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix(2)
Tim O'Riordan
Preface xi(4)
The Authors xv
1 A Synthetic Framework and a Heuristic for Integrating Multiple Perspectives on Sustainability
1(26)
Fraser Smith
Part I. Philosophical Perspectives: Third World and First World Compared 27(60)
2 Patterns of Sustainability in the Americas: The U.S. and Amerindian Lifestyles
27(20)
Clovis Cavalcanti
3 Ecologically Sustainable Institutions
47(20)
Aseem Prakash
Anil K. Gupta
4 Sustainable Development: A Southeast Asian Perspective
67(20)
Kiew Bong Heang
Part II. Practical Steps Toward Sustainability 87(192)
5 Economic vs. Financial Pricing of Timber and Its Probable Impact on National Accounts: The Costa Rican Case, 1980-92
87(20)
Juan Antonio Aguirre Gonzalez
6 The Valuation and Pricing of Non-Timber Forest Products: Conceptual Issues and a Case Study from India
107(34)
Kanchan Chopra
7 Poverty Alleviation, Empowerment, and Sustainable Resource Use: Experiments in Inland Fisheries Management in Bangladesh
141(22)
Ana Doris Capistrano
Mokammel Hossain
Mahfuzuddin Ahmed
8 Wildlife Use for Economic Gain: The Potential for Wildlife to Contribute to Development in Namibia
163(30)
Caroline Ashley
Jonathan Barnes
9 Resources Used in Attaining Land Tenure Security: The Case of Peruvian Amazonia
193(20)
Roxana M. Barrantes
10 Property Rights, Nature Conservation, and Land Reform in South Africa
213(20)
Neil Adger
11 Sustainable Development at the Village Community Level: A Third World Perspective
233(18)
Victor M. Toledo
12 Energy, Environment, and Development: Egypt, South Africa, and China
251(28)
Kathleen L. Abdalla
Index 279

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