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America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges
By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on renewable resources--water, forests, rangeland, cropland and soils, and wildlife--which possess the capacity to restore themselves after they have be consumed. Because this capacity can be destroyed and the time required for restoration can be very long, a balance in their use is necessary to sustain continued productivity. In arresting fashion, the authors trace the history of each resource's use from early colonial times through periods of dramatic, sometimes cataclysmic, changes in its utilization by an expanding, diversifying society. They show how unforeseen consequences have forced social institutions into existence and compelled policy makers, especially at the federal level, to deal with problems for which they were largely unprepared. America's Renewable Resources, by examining changes in demand, technologies, policies, and institutions, will assist both policy makers and the public at large to look past short-term events to the conditions fundamental to maintaining our future economic and environmental wellbeing. Originally published in 1991
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America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges
By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on renewable resources--water, forests, rangeland, cropland and soils, and wildlife--which possess the capacity to restore themselves after they have be consumed. Because this capacity can be destroyed and the time required for restoration can be very long, a balance in their use is necessary to sustain continued productivity. In arresting fashion, the authors trace the history of each resource's use from early colonial times through periods of dramatic, sometimes cataclysmic, changes in its utilization by an expanding, diversifying society. They show how unforeseen consequences have forced social institutions into existence and compelled policy makers, especially at the federal level, to deal with problems for which they were largely unprepared. America's Renewable Resources, by examining changes in demand, technologies, policies, and institutions, will assist both policy makers and the public at large to look past short-term events to the conditions fundamental to maintaining our future economic and environmental wellbeing. Originally published in 1991
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America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges

America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges

by Kenneth D. Frederick, Roger A. Sedjo
America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges
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America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges

America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges

by Kenneth D. Frederick, Roger A. Sedjo

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By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on renewable resources--water, forests, rangeland, cropland and soils, and wildlife--which possess the capacity to restore themselves after they have be consumed. Because this capacity can be destroyed and the time required for restoration can be very long, a balance in their use is necessary to sustain continued productivity. In arresting fashion, the authors trace the history of each resource's use from early colonial times through periods of dramatic, sometimes cataclysmic, changes in its utilization by an expanding, diversifying society. They show how unforeseen consequences have forced social institutions into existence and compelled policy makers, especially at the federal level, to deal with problems for which they were largely unprepared. America's Renewable Resources, by examining changes in demand, technologies, policies, and institutions, will assist both policy makers and the public at large to look past short-term events to the conditions fundamental to maintaining our future economic and environmental wellbeing. Originally published in 1991

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135994495
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/18/2013
Series: RFF Natural Resource Management Set
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 46 MB
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Kenneth D. Frederick, Roger A. Sedjo

Table of Contents

1: Overview: Renewable Resource Trends; 2: Water Resources: Increasing Demand and Scarce Supplies; 3: Forest Resources: Resilient and Serviceable; 4: Rangeland Resources: Changing Uses and Productivity; 5: Cropland and Soils: Past Performance and Policy Challenges; 6: Wildlife: Severe Decline and Partial Recovery; 7: The Growing Role of Outdoor Recreation
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