In this book, first published in 1990, Judith Rees considers the spatial distribution of resource availability, development and consumption, and the distribution of resource-generated wealth and welfare. Showing that there are no simple answers, she analyses the complex interactions between economic forces, administrative structures and political institutions. This well-structured text is essential reading for upper-level students in geography, environmental planning, economics and resource management.
List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and
Acknowledgements; Preface to Second Edition;
1. Introduction
2. Natural
Resources: Their Nature and Scarcity
3. Minerals: Distribution, Production
and Economics
4. The Performance of the Mineral Production Process
5. Public
Intervention in the Minerals Sector
6. Renewable Resources: The Diversity of
Perspectives
7. The Allocation of Renewable Resource Flows: Economic
Perspectives and Mechanisms
8. Evaluating Conservation and Flaw Augmentation
Decisions
9. The Policy and Practice of Renewable Resource Management
10.
Muddling Through, Social Revolution or Ecocatastrophe?
11. Postscript: The
Search for Sustainability; References; References for Second Edition; Author
Index; Subject Index
Rees, Judith
