Environmental management : readings and case studies / edited by Lewis Owen and Tim Unwin.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The management of the environment, whether locally, nationally or globally, is of crucial economic, social and scientific importance.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction and Guide to Further Reading
• Part I Managing the Biosphere
• Introduction and Guide to Further Reading
• 1 The Future of Biodiversity
• 2 Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef
• 3 The World's Imperiled Fish
• 4 Valuation of an Amazonian Rainforest
• 5 Making Biodiversity Conservation Profitable: A Case Study of the Merck/INBIO Agreement
• Part II Predicting and Managing Atmospheric Change
• Introduction and Guide to Further Reading
• 6 Evidence for General Instability of Past Climate from a 250-kyr Ice Core Record
• 7 Atmospheric Effects of the Mt Pinatubo Eruption: Patrick McCormick
• 8 Air Pollution in the World's Megacities
• 9 On-Road Vehicle Emissions: Regulations, Costs and Benefits
• 10 Climate Change
• a The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientific Assessment - Policymakers' Summary
• b Radiative Forcing of Climate - Executive Summary
• 11 Future Sea Level Rise: Environmental and Socio-Political Considerations
• 12 Responding to the El Nino Southern Oscillation
• Part III Reducing Land Degradation
• Introduction and Guide to Further Reading
• 13 Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits
• 14 Tropical Deforestation and Habitat Fragmentation in the Amazon: Satellite Data from 1978 to 1988
• 15 Exploring the Links Between Desertification and Climate Change
• 16 Rush for Rock in the Highlands
• 17 Restoring Value to the World's Degraded Lands
• Part IV Managing Water Resources
• Introduction and Guide to Further Reading
• 18 Water, War and Peace in the Middle East
• 19 Red Tides
• 20 Lessons from International Oil Pollution
• 21 Dead in the Water
• 22 Quaternary Deposits and Groundwater Pollution
• 23 Acid Rain since 1985 - Times are Changing
• 24 The Challenge of the Mississippi Floods
• 25 The Biggest Dam in the World
• Part V Environmental Economics
• Introduction and Guide to Further Reading
• 26 The Historical Development of Environmental Economics
• 27 Towards an Environmental Macroeconomics
• 28 Economic Instruments for Environmental Regulation
• 29 Economic Prescriptions for Environmental Problems: How the Patient Followed the Doctor's Orders
• 30 Sustainability: Principles and Practice
• Part VI Political and Social Agendas
• Introduction and Guide to Further Reading
• 31 Sustainable Development: Needs, Values, Rights
• 32 The Solution to a Global Crisis: Gro Harlem Brundtland
• 33 Agenda 21
• 34 Equity and Environmental Policy
• 35 One World, Two Cultures: Sociology and the Environment

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Tim Unwin is reader in Geography at Royal Holloway and the author of The Place of Geography ; he has also written extensively on the geography of the wine industry.