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Now completely updated and expanded, this invaluable sourcebook makes little-known wilderness sites of California accessible to the outdoor enthusiast. It provides detailed information about more than 200 natural areas. Sites are listed alphabetically within nine zones. Each entry includes location and directions, physical descriptions, wildlife, flora, recreation, and resources. Index. Bibliography.
List of contents
Sustainability: Challenges to Economic Analysis and PolicyConsumption Patterns: The Driving Force of Environmental StressA Tradable Carbon Entitlements Approach to Global Warming Policy: Sustainable AllocationsBack-of-the-Envelope Estimates of Environmental Damage Costs in MexicoHealth Costs Associated with Air Pollution in BrazilManaging the Transition to Sustainable Development: The Role for Economic IncentivesEcological Economics: Creating a Transdisciplinary ScienceCarrying Capacity as a Tool of Development Policy: The Ecuadoran Amazon and the Paraguayan ChacoGreen Accounting for Sustainable DevelopmentMeasuring Sustainable Income: The Cases of Mineral and Forest Depletion in Brazil
About the author
Peter H. May is professor of agro-food systems and sustainable development in the Graduate Program in Development, Agriculture, and Society at the Federal Rural University, Rio de Janeiro. He is also the executive director of Pro-Natura, an international environment and development organization. He is the coauthor of The Subsidy from Nature (1991) and editor of Natural Resource Valuation and Policy in Brazil (1999), both published by Columbia.Ronaldo Seroa da Motta is professor of environmental economics at Santa Ursula University, Rio de Janeiro. He is also coordinator of the Center for Environmental Studies at the Institute for Applied Economic Research in the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management.
Summary
An outgrowth of the 1992 Symposium and Exhibit of Environmental Technologies (ECOTECH), held in Rio de Janiero as part of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), this book addresses our ecological future and explores alternatives to mainstream solutions.
