Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, Revised Edition


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Zachary A. Smith and John Freemuth bring together a roster of top scholars to explicate the unique policies and politics in the West as well as other key questions in this new edition of Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, which was first published in 1993. This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive and current survey.




Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy


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"An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy" emphasises the importance of institutional design in addressing social problems. Three important issues concerning institutional design are: policies, instruments, and enforcement. This volume surveys each of the issues, and emphasises the common themes arising in optimal institutional design. These themes include the cost of complex institutional design, and the role of private institutions attaining social objects. This book will be particularly useful to law schools, departments of government, policy or economics, environmental managers and insurance companies.




Mineral Commodity Summaries, 1996


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Describes nearly 100 minerals as to: events, trends, issues; domestic production and use; recycling; import sources; tariffs; depletion allowances; government stockpile; world mine production, reserves, and reserve base; world resources; and substitutes. Many summaries go back as far as 1991 through 1995. Includes: aluminum, arsenic, asbestos, cement, clays, diamond, garnet, gold, iodine, lead, lime, mercury, nickel, peat, potash, rare earths, salt, sand and gravel, silver, sulfur, tin, tungsten, zinc, and more. Extensive tables.







Hardrock Mining


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