Environmental Management Readings and Case

The management of the environment, whether locally, nationally or globally, is of crucial economic, social and scientific importance. The first reader published for this course. Environmental management is one of the most common career paths for environmental studies/science and geography graduates: the courses attract large numbers in senior level/third year and at graduate MA/MSc level. Offers a guide to further reading.

Lewis Owen is lecturer in geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and co-author with Kevin Pickering of An Introduction to Global Environmental Issues.

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.

List of Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction and Guide to Further Reading

1

(4)

Part I Managing the Biosphere

5

(50)

Introduction and Guide to Further Reading

7

(5)

The Future of Biodiversity

12

(8)

Stuart L. Pimm

Gareth J. Russell

John L. Gittleman

Thomas M. Brooks

Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef

20

(8)

Terence P. Hughes

The World's Imperiled Fish

28

(7)

Carl Safina

Valuation of an Amazonian Rainforest

35

(5)

Charles M. Peters

Alwyn H. Gentry

Robert O. Mendelsohn

Making Biodiversity Conservation Profitable: A Case Study of the Merck/INBio Agreement

40

(15)

Elissa Blum

Part II Predicting and Managing Atmospheric Change

55

(128)

Introduction and Guide to Further Reading

57

(8)

Evidence for General Instability of Past Climate from a 250-kyr Ice-Core Record

65

(6)

W. Dansgaard

S. J. Johnsen

H. B. Clausen

D. Dahl-Jensen

N.S. Gundestrup

C.U. Hammer

C.S. Hvidberg

J.P. Steffensen

A. E. Sveinbjornsdottir

J. Jouzel

G. Bond

Atmospheric Effects of the Mt Pinatubo Eruption

71

(12)

M. Patrick McCormick

Larry W. Thomason

Charles R. Trepte

Air Pollution in the World's Megacities by United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization

83

(32)

On-Road Vehicle Emissions: Regulations, Costs, and Benefits

115

(38)

Stuart P. Beaton

Gary A. Bishop

Yi Zhang

Lowell L. Ashbaugh

Douglas R. Lawson

Donald H. Stedman

Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientific Assessment - Policymakers' Summary

121

(27)

J. T. Houghton

G. J. Jenkins

J. J. Ephiraums

Radiative Forcing of Climate - Executive Summary

148

(5)

J. T. Houghton

L. G. Meira Filho

J. Bruce

Lee Hoesung

B. A. Callander

E. Haites

N. Harris

K. Maskell

Future Sea Level Rise: Environmental and Socio-Political Considerations

153

(17)

Richard A. Warrick

Atiq A. Rahman

Responding to the El Nino Southern Oscillation

170

(13)

Maryam Golnaraghi

Rajiv Kaul

Part III Reducing Land Degradation

183

(60)

Introduction and Guide to Further Reading

185

(6)

Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits

191

(14)

David Pimentel

C. Harvey

P. Resosudarmo

K. Sinclair

D. Kurz

M. McNair

S. Crist

L. Shpritz

L. Fitton

R. Saffouri

R. Blair

Tropical Deforestation and Habitat Fragmentation in the Amazon: Satellite Data from 1978 to 1988

205

(8)

David Skole

Compton Tucker

Exploring the Links Between Desertification and Climate Change

213

(18)

Mike Hulme

Mick Kelly

Rush for Rock in the Highlands

231

(4)

Fred Pearce

Restoring Value to the World's Degraded Lands

235

(8)

Gretchen C. Daily

Part IV Managing Water Resources

243

(112)

Introduction and Guide to Further Reading

245

(6)

Water, War and Peace in the Middle East

251

(24)

Peter H. Gleick

Red Tides

275

(8)

Donald M. Anderson

Lessons from Intentional Oil Pollution

283

(15)

Ronald B. Mitchell

Dead in the Water

298

(7)

Fred Pearce

Quaternary Deposits and Groundwater Pollution

305

(15)

Donal Daly

Acid Rain since 1985 - Times are Changing

320

(13)

T. G. Brydges

R. B. Wilson

The Challenge of the Mississippi Floods

333

(16)

Mary Fran Myers

Gilbert F. White

The Biggest Dam in the World

349

(6)

Fred Pearce

Part V Environmental Economics

355

(72)

Introduction and Guide to Further Reading

357

(9)

The Historical Development of Environmental Economics

366

(14)

D. W. Pearce

R. K. Turner

Towards an Environmental Macroeconomics

380

(6)

Herman E. Daly

Economic Instruments for Environmental Regulation

386

(14)

T. H. Tietenberg

Economic Prescriptions for Environmental Problems: How the Patient Followed the Doctor's Orders

400

(12)

Robert W. Hahn

Sustainability: Principles and Practice

412

(15)

R. K. Turner

Part VI Political and Social Agendas

427

(58)

Introduction and Guide to Further Reading

429

(9)

Sustainable Development: Needs, Values, Rights

438

(13)

Michael Redclift

The Solution to a Global Crisis

451

(4)

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Agenda 21

455

(5)

Matthias Koch

Michael Grubb

Equity and Environmental Policy

460

(11)

Judith Rees

One World, Two Cultures: Sociology and the Environment

471

(9)

Howard Newby

The Third Revolution: Population, Environment and a Sustainable World - Executive Summary

480

(5)

P. Harrison

Index

485

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