1. Wetlands : a missing piece of the federalism puzzle -- 2. An example of intergovernmental management -- 3. Taking a "bottom-up" approach -- 4. A "top-down" look at effectiveness -- 5. Applying an empirical logic of governance -- 6. The administrative context of wetland regulation -- 7. The...

For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of...

Es wird ein Überblick über 30 Jahre Erfahrung mit Natur- und Umweltschutzrichtlinien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Wattenmeers gegeben und der Frage nachgegangen, in welchem Ausmaß und auf welche Weise das Instrument des integrierten Küstenzonenmanagements (IKZM) zur Integration der...

'Roy and Jan have assembled a timely snapshot of our current understanding of ecotourism, both as a concept worthy of scientific inquiry and as an increasingly significant segment of global commerce and industry. A terrific piece of work!' (Sam Ham, University of Idaho, US). -- 'In the 30 or so...

The monograph takes off from a definition of environmental problems not only in terms of the degradation of specific resources but also of their habitats. Guided by a framework developed to offset some of the limitations inherent in the neo-classical economic definition of the nature, causes,...

section 1. Introduction -- section 2. Water resources management -- section 3. Mineral resources management (U. Aswathanarayana, India) -- section 4. Energy resources management (U. Aswathanarayana, India) -- section 5. Bio resources and biodiversity (S. Balaji, India) -- section 6. Disaster...