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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Past and Present Conservation Challenges
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National Policies, Local Communities, and Rural Development
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Getting the Prices Right: Mechanisms for Protecting Public Goods
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Public Participation and Justice Systems
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The Effects of Trade and Development Policies on the Environment
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Arkansas State University, State University, USA
Aldemaro Romero
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Macalester College, Saint Paul, USA
Sarah E. West
About the editors
(a) Aldemaro Romero obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Miami (1984). Currently he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Arkansas State University. He has published more than 430 pieces of work including peer-reviewed articles, articles in non-peer-reviewed publications, books, book reviews, and abstracts. He has obtained numerous research grants, as well as teaching, research, and service awards from a variety of public and private agencies in the U.S. and abroad. His main interests include, but are not limited to, biology of cave organisms (particularly fish), environmental history of marine mammals in the Caribbean, and general evolutionary issues and he has used field, laboratory, and theoretical methodologies. He is particularly interested in interesting questions in science that require an interdisciplinary approach. Homepage: http://www.clt.astate.edu/aromero/
(b) Sarah E. West received her bachelors degree from Macalester College and an MA in Latin American Studies, an MS in economics, and a PHD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on market-based incentives for the control of vehicle pollution. Her work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. She teaches courses in environmental, urban, and public economics in the Department of Economics at Macalester College and is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group in Environmental Economics. Homepage: http://www.macalester.edu/~wests
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean
Editors: Aldemaro Romero, Sarah E. West
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3774-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3773-3Published: 13 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6960-3Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3774-0Published: 23 February 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 300
Topics: Pollution, general, Environment, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Ecology, Environmental Management, Nature Conservation