No comments about Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets: Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation.

1 comments about Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information.

1. Every once in a while a book come at you totally out of the blue. This is one.
   
   Suppose you have a plant, corn let's say. Someone then delivers to you another variety of corn that has some valuable characteristic: resistance to disease, ability to grow with less water or in a salty soil. But the new corn doesn't produce as high a yield as the corn you have. You take this new variety, isolate the gene that provides this capability and merge it with your older variety to produce a new strain that combines the good features of both.
   
   The Biodiversity Convention obliges a signatory state to ensure that suppliers of genetic and biochemical resources receive "a just and equitable" share of the profits that accrue from the comemrcialization of their resources.
   
   To be absolutely fair and follow the law to the limit, how much do you owe to whom? What should the collector of the variety get? The owner of the property on which it is found? The country in which it is found? And oh yes, the United States is not a signatory nation to the convention.
   
   This fascinating book opens a wide variety of questions, and in doing so explains a lot about biodiversity that I never knew.

1 comments about A New Century for Natural Resources Management.

1. in the ten years since this was published, there still hasn't been a book (that I know of) published that is better than this one at putting public lands management in an historic-then-contemporary context. it's also nice that it's an edited collection, b/c readers (i.e, students!) don't get lulled into complacent reading by single sytle or approach. highly recommended, though of course, needs to be supplemented with newer readings, particularly dealing with collaborative conservation and political ecology.

No comments about Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment.

No comments about Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization: The Case of Curitiba, Brazil.

No comments about Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities (Climate Change, Economies and Society).

No comments about Delay Analysis in Construction Contracts.

1 comments about Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots To Beltway (Studies in Government and Public Policy).

1. I purchased this book for use in a university course, but any one interested in the recent changes in environmental organizations would also benefit. The tone is, by design, a bit scholarly, but Bosso is an expert in this field and what he writes is accurate and unbiased. There is nothing out there right now that compares to it in terms of timeliness.

No comments about Natural Resources and Economic Development.

No comments about Fresh Water and International Economic Law (International Economic Law Series).