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Book Category: Business & Economics
What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social...
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"When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams,...
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Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding.
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Book Category: Water
The quality and availability of fresh water is of critical importance to human and ecosystem health. The World's Water 1998-1999 is a comprehensive reference on worldwide freshwater resources and the political, economic, scientific, and technological...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities.
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Book Category: Landscape Architecture
Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Land Use Planning
Strips of urban and suburban "fabric" have extended into the countryside, creating a ragged settlement pattern that blurs the distinction between rural, urban, and suburban.
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Book Category: Business & Economics
Sustainability Strategies for Industry contains essays by members of the Greening of Industry Network that examine the emerging picture of sustainability and its implications for industry and for the relationship between industry and other social...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States.
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For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has spent half of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature.