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The six volumes of Peterson’s Annual Guides to Graduate Study, the only annually updated reference work of its kind, provide wide-ranging information on the graduate and professional programs offered by accredited colleges and universities in the United States and U.S. territories and those in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Africa that are accredited by U.S. accrediting bodies. Books 2 through 6 are divided into sections that contain one or more directories devoted to individual programs in a particular field. Book 4 contains programs of study in the physical sciences, mathematics, agricultural sciences, the environment, and natural resources. ... Read more

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Inaccuarte information
This volume is not accurate. I have found cases of instructors being listed as PhD's and researchers. Also, affiliated faculty members are listed as regular faculty. ... Read more

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The book covers the various aspects of the use of pesticides,their behavior, degradation, and impacts in wetland ricefields, andpresents the results of surveys conducted in the Philippines andThailand. It includes both bibliographic reviews and selected aspectsof the experimental results of a research project on pesticide impactsin wetland ricefields. The first phase of the `Pesticide Impact'project was developed in the Philippines from 1989 to 1991. It was amultidisciplinary/collaborative approach involving scientists fromIRRI, NRI (England), ORSTOM (France), UPLB (Philippines) who studiedthe effects of pesticides on the environment and on farmers' health,and the economical aspects of their use.
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This book presents a major overview of the key environmental issues affecting Indonesia today. Contributors examine the nation's development since the mid-1960's and assess Indonesia's natural resources and the environmental impact of their exploitation. The book discusses the dimensions of Indonesia's present environmental problems, the management of land resources, the ecology of rice production, environmental aspects of cash-crop development, problems related to upland use in Java, and the utilization of fishery resources in Kalimantan. The writers look at government policies and their environmental implications in a number of fields and identify emerging resource concerns. The question of sustainability is raised in the context of plans for national development in coming years. Most of the contributors to the book reach the same conclusion: that while great progress has been made in Indonesia since the mid 1960's, efforts to maintain momentum will have to consider ecological and environmental matters if development is to be genuinely sustainable, especially since it will be several more years before the effects of widespread family planning is felt in the labor force. ... Read more

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"Global Connections" introduces middle school readers to the issues that affect today's global society. Tying together geography, history, science, social studies, and economics, these engaging titles examine key topics and their importance to the United States and to the world. Each title provides a balanced view of how the policies and actions of a particular group or region affect others, including such complex topics as world hunger, human rights, and terrorism. These timely books will be valuable resources for those interested in learning about the issues in the news or assigned reports on current events. Full-color maps and illustrations, plus informative charts, tables, and graphs, enhance each title. Special interactive 'Making Connections' boxed insets encourage students to engage in critical thinking about these complex issues. Titles in this new series were developed with the national social studies curriculum standards in mind. ... Read more

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As greater significance is placed on the relationship between people and their environment it is increasingly acknowledged that few environmental problems can be solved without considering the social context in which they arise. But what does it mean to incorporate the 'social' and what types of social sciences are needed? This incisive book critically reviews the theoretical perspectives that underlie social scientific contributions to natural resource management and argues for both a greater social science presence and for conceptual and methodological clarity within the social sciences themselves.

The expert contributors explore how new concepts and approaches can contribute positively to natural resource management. They demonstrate how the social sciences can be used as a vehicle to highlight social concerns as well as to foster greater participation, co-operation, and integration among community members, natural resource managers and researchers. Through detailed case studies from Australasia and the Americas, the authors illustrate how different social science perspectives can be utilized. The range and variety of views provide a basis for the evaluation of various and often competing disciplinary paradigms within the social sciences.

This book will undoubtedly contribute to a more sophisticated debate about the place of the 'social' in environmental research. It will prove to be of great worth to students and researchers of environmental and social issues, to those involved in environmental decision making and community planning, as well as environmental policymakers and natural resource managers. ... Read more

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This third edition of Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management is the most accessible and user-friendly textbook on the market. Continuing the narrative structure and visual emphasis of the second edition, the text is sprinkled with updates on contemporary policy initiatives, and discussions of the latest developments in the field. The environmental policy of the Obama administration and the international dimension of environmental and natural resource economics are provided with in depth coverage. ... Read more

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Graduate Programs in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Agricultural Sciences, the Environment & Natural Resourcescontains more than 2,700 programs of study in 59 disciplines—including agriculture and food sciences, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, physics, mathematical sciences, environmental sciences and management, natural resources, and marine sciences.

Peterson’s six-volume Annual Guides to Graduate Study is the only annually updated reference work of its kind, providing wide-ranging information on the graduate and professional programs offered by U.S.-accredited colleges and universities in the U.S. territories, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Africa. ... Read more

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Focuses on 5 aspects of gender relationship with the environment: gender divisions of labor, property rights, knowledge and strategies for sustainability, environmental and social movements, and policy alternatives. Paper. DLC: Women in development - Environmental aspects. ... Read more

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Always controversial, Thomas DeGregori has released another classic volume that is sure to inform, confound, and present new perspectives on todays environmental issues. This time he is taking on the environmentalists, naturalists, green consumerists, and those that hail the natural lifestyle as the healthy, politically correct thing to do.

DeGregori examines the economics of green consumerism, the reality of saving the environment, how historical cultures may have influenced environmental damage, and how being ecologically correct may have a more damaging effect on our environment. Not just a regurgitation of theories; DeGregori offers real-time strategies and alternatives to enhance our natural resources and our environment in harmony with today’s modern technology. This is the book everyone will be talking about for years to come. ... Read more

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Strives to uncover facts beneath layers of propaganda
The Environment, Our Natural Resources, And Modern Technology by Thomas R. Degregori (Professor of Economics, University of Houston, Texas), is a 256-page, scholarly volume whose reasoning and language is accessible enough to make it appropriate for any non-specialist general reader concerned about the environmental degradation and human overpopulation problems that are significantly effecting planet Earth. The intent of The Environment, Our Natural Resources, And Modern Technology is not to flatly denounce conservation efforts, but rather to closely scrutinize them (including the myths surrounding them), and to take a cold, hard look at whether such things as "ecotourism" are truly beneficial to the ecologies or the people who live in them. From revealing how some African game wardens are empowered to legally shoot to kill anyone suspected of poaching; to debunking the myth of the "untamed West" which ignored the profound impact Native American cultures and settlements had on the land, The Environment, Our Natural Resources, And Modern Technology is a thoughtful and thought-provoking extended essay that strives to uncover facts beneath layers of propaganda on all sides of thorny environmental and technology issues. No academic library's Environmental Studies collection can be considered comprehensive without the inclusion of Professor Degregori's The Environment, Our Natural Resources And Modern Technology.

The Illogic of the Leftist Agenda Exposed
The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology is a holistic expose of the hypocrisy of the major planks of the stereotypical leftist agenda: namely the three mentioned in the title.

Dr. DeGregori contrasts "green consumerism" with another plank of the leftist agenda: income disparity, and shows, through a variety of examples, what the results of such national policies would be: increased prices and scarcity for all.In short, the green movement is for guilt-ridden rich folk, and not for the masses.

Addressing natural resources, DeGregori shows that the best way to preserve them would be to allow free trade and property rights.I particularly enjoyed the applications to developing economies around the world, although I found it painful to learn of the way in which developed economic powers (U.S. and Britain in particular) egotistically deprive indigenous cultures of even the chance to utilize their natural resources to increase their income (thereby increasing education, access to life-saving consumer products, and increasing general standards of living).Cases from India, Africa, and Southeast Asia are used to vividly illustrate the consequences of leftist, socialist moves to keep indigenous cultures in developing countries at a stunted level of economic and cultural development.

DeGregori's examination of modern technology is superb, as well.He exposes the fanatacism of anti-technology individuals-e.g. those who decry "cold pasteurization" as harmful, even though empirical evidence shows that there has not been a single incident of an individual consumer becoming ill as a result.His evaluation of techno-phobes' concerns is invaluable, and reaches beyond contemporary quibbles to address the fundamental philosophy driving their zeal.He addresses some of the most important issues of today, such as debates surrounding genetically modified food vs. organic and those regarding the use of DDT and fertilizers.

DeGregori also addresses the demand for technological improvements by cultures in developing countries, and the benefits to be gained: increased income, increased competitiveness in the global economy, increased life-expectancies, and decreased environmental degredation.

I was surprised to find that such a scholarly book was such an easy read; the information was logically presented, and easily digestible.DeGregori's information is heavily footnoted, but since the footnotes aren't the crux of the book, you can simply read around them.If you are looking for more information, the footnotes may well prove invaluable, as DeGregori cites pro and con sources to many of his arguments.

This book was required for a university course that I am taking from DeGregori.In person, and not just on books, DeGregori is a professor with a firm grasp on the latest economic information from developing and developed economies around the world.Degregori encourages you to look on the positive side of things-all the progress we've made, and potential solutions to some of the problems.

The antidote to cultural delusions!
Little more than a year after he published the opus Agriculture and Modern Technology: a Defense,* Thomas R. DeGregori has returned with another work of similar scope and perhaps even greater depth: The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology.** The book examines in detail many preconceptions and cultural myths about the environment, natural resources and technology, and shows that many are so badly distorted that they contribute to the commission of countless wrongs.

DeGregori's deft handling of these preconceptions and cultural myths invites a comparison to Dawkins' work with memes, or Campbell's syncretistic work with folklore, but as an economist of strikingly pragmatic bent, DeGregori prefers to deal with historical fact.

Those who cherish any illusions about the environment, natural resources or technology will find this a painful book to read. In chapter 1, we learn that "green consumerism" is still consumerism, barely green, and sometimes outright dangerous. In chapter 2, we learn how wildlife conservation efforts in Africa have destroyed cultures, forcing natives from their lands and depriving them of traditional foods. These natives are then denied access to modern technologies, with a view to ensure that they somehow remain "authentic" after such irreversible intrusions, enduring an enforced primitivism at the hands of their conquerors.

The theme repeats itself in chapter 5, where the notion of the American Indian as the "original ecologist" is exposed as the typical aftermath of subjugation. Primitive peoples in their wild, "natural" state (notions of what is "natural" are scathingly debunked as well) are viewed as savages, akin to animals and therefore not landowners, justifying their subjugation and the theft of their land. Once subjugated, nostalgia usurps memory and they are viewed as having lived "sustainably" in a pristine pre-technological utopia and an elaborate parody of their past is concocted to mesh with other mythical views we wish to entertain in the present. If these peoples rebel by refusing to act as expected, they are once again referred to as savages and often treated accordingly.

Much of the book deals with skewed notions of what is "natural," and they are mainly exposed in chapter 6. There, we learn that life "in harmony with the environment" for most of human history has had little in common with its idyllic portrayals, being instead nasty, brutish and short. As it turns out, the only thing able to protect us from the uncaring ravages of nature is, and always has been, technology.

"Here [in this book] the focus is on the consumption practices that reflect the phobias and beliefs that deny and/or reject the technological and scientific transformations that have given us longer, healthier lives," DeGregori states in his introduction. The book achieves this ambition, and a good deal more.
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* Iowa State University Press, Ames, 2001. 268 pp., [money]. Reviewed in AgBiotech Reporter, July 2001.
** Iowa State Press, Ames, 2002. 224 pp., [money]

An Old-Fashion Institutionalist's Plea for Progress
This is a book that will challenge much conventional wisdom about the impact of modern technology on our environment. No matter how much you think you know about the topic, you will learn something new by reading it.

The author, an economist of the old-fashion institutionalist school (unlike the current institutionalist crowd, he believes in material progress) begins the book with a simple question: If modern science and technology are killing us, why are we so healthy and living so long? In short, his answer is that human beings have evolved into problem-solving (i.e. technological) creatures, and that no one should deny that this is a good thing in light of the available historical record.

The topics discussed in the book go much beyond what its title suggests and range from the living conditions of early Pacific Islanders to the Nazis' love of all things natural - with the exception, of course, of other human beings who didn't fit their idea of the master race. Indeed, the book is as much a study of the cultural divide between technological optimists and pessimists as it is a study of the impact of technology on humans and the environment.

One warning, though. The author is an academic and writes like one. The titles listed in his 45 page bibliography are thus methodically referenced in the main text in a way that will probably distract some readers unfamiliar with this writing style. In the end, though, the book is well worth the effort. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on March 1, 1999. The length of the article is 5254 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: One of the more substantial economic factors that hurts environmental causes is the tax structure that allows corporate polluters to avoid financial responsibility. Tax breaks for petroleum, gas and mining industries encourage projects, exploration development, and other destructive natural resource exploitation activities difficult to counter. Even the tax deduction for mortgage interest on second or vacation homes enables encroachment in environmentally sensitive areas. What is needed is a new tax policy that will take away less from personal income and impose greater penalties on corporations that abuse environmental resources.

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Title: SHARING the WEALTH.(how the antiquated tax code in the US hurts environmental protection causes by favoring industries that exploit natural resources and pollute the environment)
Author: Brian Dunkiel
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1999
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: 10Issue: 2Page: 28(1)

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