Accounting for mother nature
Subtitle: changing demands for her bounty
By: edited by Terry L. Anderson, Laura E. Huggins, and Thomas Michael Power.
Contributors: Anderson, Terry Lee, 1946-; Huggins, Laura E., 1976-; Power, Thomas M.
Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780804756983
Subjects: Conservation of natural resources -- Economic aspects -- West (U.S.); Right of property -- West (U.S.); Public lands -- West (U.S.); Natural areas -- Management; West (U.S.) -- Economic policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction; title: Perspectives on the wealth of nature; title: Natural amenities and ecosystem services: the need for additional institutional innovation / by Thomas Michael Power; title: Maximizing the wealth of nature: a property rights approach / by Terry L. Anderson; title: Devolution to facilitate change; title: Institutional reform for public lands? / by Daniel Kemmis; title: The state of the parks: enhancing or dissipating the wealth of nature? / by Holly Lippke Fretwell; title: Property rights to facilitate change; title: Homegrown property rights for the Klamath Basin / by Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins; title: Fishing for wealth in coastal fisheries / by Donald R. Leal; title: The mining landscape: bootleggers, baptists, and the promised land / by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss; title: The effects of public funding systems on the success of private conservation through land trusts / by Dominic P. Parker; title: Measuring the wealth of nature; title: The wealth of nature: costs as well as benefits? / by F. Andrew Hanssen; title: Counting the wealth of nature: an overview of ecosystem valuation / by Timothy Fitzgerald and A. Myrick Freeman III; title: Do resource states do worse? / by Ronald N. Johnson; title: Why individuals provide public goods / by David D. Haddock; title: Conclusion; title: Contributors; title: Index.