This third edition of Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management is the most accessible and user-friendly textbook on the market. Continuing the narrative structure and visual emphasis of the second edition, the text is sprinkled with updates on contemporary policy …
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell g…
This newly revised and updated edition of the classic resource on museum marketing and strategy provides a proven framework for examining marketing and strategic goals in relation to a museum's mission, resources, opportunities, and challenges. Museum Marketing and Strategy exam…
Designing for sustainability is an innovation shaping both the design industry and design education today. Yet architects, product designers, and other key professionals in this new field have so far lacked a resource that addresses their sensibilities and concerns. The Designer…
Reports the results of a study based on financial and technical analyses of more than 150 green buildings in the United States and ten other countries. This book analyzes the costs and financial benefits of building green on both large and small scales, and addresses the role of…
Rising above the gathering storm: energizing and employing America for a brighter e…
by National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (USA), National Academy of Sciences (USA), Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century (USA), Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (USA)