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Cross-border resource management : theory and practice /

This essay is about the management of natural and environmental resources in cross-border areas. It explores a group of geographical, political, legal, economic and cultural factors that arise when political units (such as sovereign countries, dependent states and other administrative units) seek to...

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Main Authors: Guo, Rongxing
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2005.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Developments in environmental science ; 4
Subjects:
Natural resources > Management > International cooperation
Natural resources > Management > International cooperation > Case studies
Environmental policy > International cooperation
Environmental policy > International cooperation > Case studies
NATURE > Natural Resources
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business
Electronic books
Case studies
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/14748177/4
Summary: This essay is about the management of natural and environmental resources in cross-border areas. It explores a group of geographical, political, legal, economic and cultural factors that arise when political units (such as sovereign countries, dependent states and other administrative units) seek to utilize natural and environmental resources efficiently and equitably while minimizing the resultant damages (for example, prevention of resource degradation and preservation of the physical environment). This study considers various types of cross-border areas - at both international and sub-nat
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780444519153
0444519157
008046081X
9780080460819
Index Number: HC85
CLC: F205
Contents: Resource management and cross-border areas -- Can cross-border resources be optimally managed? -- Cross-border resource management : methodological puzzles -- Institutions for cross-border resource management -- Cross-border resource management in disputed areas -- The triangular resource management of the Tumen River area -- The transnational water pollution in the Lower Mekong Basin -- The US-Mexico border environment cooperation -- China's interprovincial border disputes at Lake Weishan.

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