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1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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Part I. The Wealth of Nature 5 -- 1. From Natural Resources to Natural Assets / James K. Boyce 7 -- 2. "A Question of Degree": The Sanctity of Property in American Economic History / Gerald Friedman 29 -- Part II. Reclaiming Environmental Sinks 55 -- 3. Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability to Community Asset / K.A. Dixon 57 -- 4. Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice / Manuel Pastor 77 -- 5. Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies, and Poverty / Paul Templet 99 -- 6. Information for Empowerment: The EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project / Nicolaas W. Bouwes, Steven M. Hassur, Marc D. Shapiro 117 -- 7. The Sky Trust: The Battle for Atmospheric Scarcity Rent / Peter Barnes, Marc Breslow 135 -- Part III. Cultivating Natural Capital 151 -- 8. White Earth: Recovering a Homeland / Winona LaDuke 153 -- 9. The Watershed Commonwealth of the Upper Rio Grande / Devon G. Pena 169 -- 10. The Lighthouse and the Potato: Internalizing the Value of Crop Genetic Diversity / Stephen B. Brush 187 -- Part IV. Out of the Woods 207 -- 11. Values, Markets, and Rights: Rebuilding Forest Ecosystem Assets / Constance Best 209 -- 12. Land and Livelihoods in the Northern Forest / Deborah Brighton 227 -- 13. Community-Based Stewardship: Reinvesting in Public Forests and Forest Communities / Cecilia Danks 243 -- Part V. Greening the Cities 261 -- 14. Can Natural Assets Help Address Urban Poverty? / Greg Watson 263 -- 15. The Chelsea River: Democratizing Access to Nature in a World of Cities / H. Patricia Hynes 277 -- 16. Poverty and the Environment: The Urban Agriculture Connection / Raquel Pinderhughes 299 |
| Summary |
Annotation Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environment has been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant corporations or government agencies. In such settings, initiatives that build natural assets in the hands of the poor can play an important role in poverty-fighting efforts. Natural Assets explores a range of strategies for expanding the quantity and enhancing the quality of natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. The book: - examines the social construction of rights to natural resources and the environment - describes efforts to curtail pollution of the air, land, and water and to reclaim resources that have been appropriated and abused by polluters - considers sustainable agricultural practices that not only maintain but actually increase the stock of natural capital - explores strategies to promote sustainable forest management while reducing rural poverty - examines the prospects for building natural assets in urban areas Drawing on evidence from across the United States, the authors demonstrate that safeguarding the environment and improving the well-being of the poor can be mutually reinforcing goals |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Environmental justice.
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Environmental protection.
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Conservation of natural resources.
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Conservation of Natural Resources
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environmental protection.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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Conservation of natural resources
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Environmental justice
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Environmental protection
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Boyce, James K
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Shelley, Barry G
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Natural Assets Project.
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| LC no. |
2002155547 |
| ISBN |
9781597262781 |
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1597262781 |
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