Accounting for Mother Nature : Changing Demands for Her Bounty / ed. by Terry L. Anderson, Laura E. Huggins, Thomas Michael Power.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Terry L., Contributor.

Anderson, Terry L., Editor.

Fitzgerald, Timoty, Contributor.

Freeman Iii, A. Myrick, Contributor.

Haddock, David D., Contributor.

Hanssen, F. Andrew, Contributor.

Huggins, Laura E., Contributor.

Huggins, Laura E., Editor.

Johnson, Ronald N., Contributor.

Kemmis, Daniel, Contributor.

Leal, Donald L., Contributor.

Meiners, Roger E., Contributor.

Morriss, Andrew P., Contributor.

Parker, Dominic P., Contributor.

Power, Thomas Michael, Contributor.

Power, Thomas Michael, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.) : 11 tables, 7 figures, 2 illustrations, 1 map

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the face of growing pressure on our natural landscapes and increasingly bitter conflict over their management and use, simply defending the status quo is not enough. Finding a balance between producing commodities, such as lumber, and maintaining amenities, such as open space, is crucial if we hope to promote environmental stewardship and healthy economies. Accounting for Mother Nature brings together experts with wide-ranging experience to provide a comprehensive examination of the critical debate around the management of scarce natural resources. The contributors to this volume consider how unconstrained use of nature's bounty had lead not only to damage and waste, but also to divisive conflict. With a focus particularly on the American West, this volume examines the often-negative outcomes of government's management of land and natural resources. In turn, the contributors explore the role that private individuals and organizations can play in protecting natural and agrarian landscapes. Through its detailed analyses, Accounting for Mother Nature makes the case for innovation within the private nonprofit sector and marks out new frontiers for research.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Part I Perspectives on the Wealth of Nature

1. Natural Amenities and Ecosystem Services: The Need for Additional Institutional Innovation

2. Maximizing the Wealth of Nature: A Property Rights Approach

Part two Devolution to facilitate change

3. Institutional Reform for Public Lands?

4. The State of the Parks: Enhancing or Dissipating the Wealth of Nature?

Part three. Property rights to facilitate change

5. Homegrown Property Rights for the Klamath Basin

6. Fishing for Wealth in Coastal Fisheries

7. The Mining Landscape: Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Promised Land

8. The Effects of Public Funding Systems on the Success of Private Conservation Through Land Trusts

Part four. Measuring the wealth of nature

9. The Wealth of Nature: Costs as Well as Benefits?

10. Counting the Wealth of Nature: An Overview of Ecosystem Valuation

11. Do Resource States Do Worse?

12. Why Individuals Provide Public Goods

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2675-X

OCLC:

1294424772