Natural Assets Democratizing Ownership of Nature 1st Edition by James Boyce, Barry Shelley 9781597262781 1597262781

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ISBN 10: 1597262781

ISBN 13: 9781597262781

Author: James K. Boyce; Barry G. Shelley

Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environment has been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant corporations or government agencies. In such settings, initiatives that build natural assets in the hands of the poor can play an important role in poverty-fighting efforts.

Natural Assets explores a range of strategies for expanding the quantity and enhancing the quality of natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. The book:

• examines the social construction of rights to natural resources and the environment
• describes efforts to curtail pollution of the air, land, and water and to reclaim resources that have been appropriated and abused by polluters
• considers sustainable agricultural practices that not only maintain but actually increase the stock of natural capital
• explores strategies to promote sustainable forest management while reducing rural poverty
• examines the prospects for building natural assets in urban areas Drawing on evidence from across the United States, the authors demonstrate that safeguarding the environment and improving the well-being of the poor can be mutually reinforcing goals.

Table of contents:

PART I. The Wealth of Nature

Chapter 1. From Natural Resources to Natural AssetsJames K. Boyce

Chapter 2. “A Question Of Degree”: The Sanctity of Property in American Economic HistoryGerald Friedman

PART II. Reclaiming Environmental Sinks

Chapter 3. Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability to Community AssetK. A. Dixon

Chapter 4. Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental JusticeManuel Pastor

Chapter 5. Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies, and PovertyPaul Templet

Chapter 6. Information for Empowerment: The EPA’s Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators ProjectNicolaas W. Bouwes, Steven M. Hassur, and Marc D. Shapiro

Chapter 7. The Sky Trust: The Battle For Atmospheric Scarcity RentPeter Barnes and Marc Breslow

PART III. Cultivating Natural Capital

Chapter 8. White Earth: Recovering a HomelandWinona LaDuke

Chapter 9. The Watershed Commonwealth of the Upper Rio GrandeDevon G. Pena

Chapter 10. The Lighthouse and the Potato: Internalizing the Value of Crop Genetic DiversityStephen B. Brush

PART IV. Out of the Woods

Chapter 11. Values, Markets, and Rights: Rebuilding Forest Ecosystem AssetsConstance Best

Chapter 1 2. Land and Livelihoods in the Northern ForestDeborah Brighton

Chapter 13. Community-Based Stewardship: Reinvesting in Public Forests and Forest CommunitiesCecelia Danks

PART V. Greening the Cities

Chapter 14. Can Natural Assets Help Address Urban Poverty?Greg Watson

Chapter 15. The Chelsea River: Democratizing Access to Nature in a World of CitiesH. Patricia Hynes

Chapter 16. Poverty and the Environment: The Urban Agriculture ConnectionRaquel Pinderhughes

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