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Natural Assets : Democratizing Ownership of Nature.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781597262781
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Natural AssetsDDC classification:
  • 363.7
LOC classification:
  • GE220
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Wealth of Nature -- Ch. 1: From Natural Resources to Natural Assets -- Ch. 2: "A Question of Degree": The Sanctity of Property in American Economic History -- Part II: Reclaiming Environmental Sinks -- Ch. 3: Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability to Community Asset -- Ch. 4: Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice -- Ch. 5: Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies, and Poverty -- Ch. 6: Information for Empowerment: The EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project -- Ch. 7: The Sky Trust: The Battle for Atmospheric Scarcity Rent -- Part III: Cultivating Natural Capital -- Ch. 8: White Earth: Recovering a Homeland -- Ch. 9: The Watershed Commonwealth of the Upper Rio Grande -- Ch. 10: The Lighthouse and the Potato: Internalizing the Value of Crop Genetic Diversity -- Part IV: Out of the Woods -- Ch. 11: Values, Markets, and Rights: Rebuilding Forest Ecosystem Assets -- Ch. 12: Land and Livelihoods in the Northern Forest -- Ch. 13: Community-Based Stewardship: Reinvesting in Public Forests and Forest Communities -- Part V: Greening the Cities -- Ch. 14: Can Natural Assets Help Address Urban Poverty? -- Ch. 15: The Chelsea River: Democratizing Access to Nature in a World of Cities -- Ch. 16: Poverty and the Environment: The Urban Agriculture Connection -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Cover Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Wealth of Nature -- Ch. 1: From Natural Resources to Natural Assets -- Ch. 2: "A Question of Degree": The Sanctity of Property in American Economic History -- Part II: Reclaiming Environmental Sinks -- Ch. 3: Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability to Community Asset -- Ch. 4: Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice -- Ch. 5: Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies, and Poverty -- Ch. 6: Information for Empowerment: The EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project -- Ch. 7: The Sky Trust: The Battle for Atmospheric Scarcity Rent -- Part III: Cultivating Natural Capital -- Ch. 8: White Earth: Recovering a Homeland -- Ch. 9: The Watershed Commonwealth of the Upper Rio Grande -- Ch. 10: The Lighthouse and the Potato: Internalizing the Value of Crop Genetic Diversity -- Part IV: Out of the Woods -- Ch. 11: Values, Markets, and Rights: Rebuilding Forest Ecosystem Assets -- Ch. 12: Land and Livelihoods in the Northern Forest -- Ch. 13: Community-Based Stewardship: Reinvesting in Public Forests and Forest Communities -- Part V: Greening the Cities -- Ch. 14: Can Natural Assets Help Address Urban Poverty? -- Ch. 15: The Chelsea River: Democratizing Access to Nature in a World of Cities -- Ch. 16: Poverty and the Environment: The Urban Agriculture Connection -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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