At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the nations of the world adopted the convention on Biological Diversity. Since then, over 160 countries have ratified the Convention, three Conferences of the Parties
An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy emphasises the importance of institutional design in addressing social problems. Three important issues concerning institutional desig
This splendid new body of work by portrait photographer and stylist Claiborne Swanson Frank comes onthe heels of her first Assouline book, American Beauty. Swanson Frank has photographed sixty of the
The secret to instant height?? Stand on a box.Want to make your money go further? Roll it down a hill.The answer to smelly feet? Wear a clothes pin on your nose.Eleven-year-old Johnny Swanson is in bu
This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic gro
The urgent need to ensure the conservation of biological diversity is now widely recognised, but practical measures to protect endangered species and habitats are still carried out on a small scale and generally limited to developed countries. This volume provides a detailed analysis of the economic and scientific rationales for biodiversity conservation. It discusses the justification for, and implementation of intellectual property rights regimes as incentive systems to encourage conservation. An interdisciplinary approach is used in the book, encompassing fields of study that include evolutionary biology, chemistry, economics and legal studies. The arguments are presented using the case study of the use of medicinal plants in the pharmaceutical industry. The book will be of interest and relevance to a broad spectrum of conservationists, from research students to policy makers.
Friends, colleagues, and former students present 12 studies in fields that interest Swanson himself. Among the topics are friendship and its limits in Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia , the ver
Swanson (physics, Auburn U.) describes recent research in plasma waves, including electron cyclotron emission, collisions, relativistic effects, Landau damping, tunneling equations, and wave theories.
