Managing Natural Resources in British Columbia

Markets, Regulations, and Sustainable Development

by Anthony Scott

Edited by John B. Robinson

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Series: Sustainability and the Environment

Imprint: UBC Press

220 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 4 b&w figures and tables

Paperback
9780774805506
Published: August 1996

£38.00

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Acknowledgments

1. Institutions, Policy Instruments, and Sustainable Development inBritish Columbia / John Robinson, David Cohen, and AnthonyScott

2. Institutions, Economic Incentives, and Sustainable Rural Land Usein British Columbia / Richard Barichello, R. Morey Porter and G.Cornelis van Kooten

3. Policy Instruments for Sustainable Development in the BritishColumbia Forestry Sector / David Haley and Martin Luckert

4. Institutional Change and the Management of British ColumbiaFisheries / Gordon Munro and Philip Neher

5. Economic Instruments and Control of Secondary Air Pollutants inthe Lower Fraser Valley / Ellen Baar

6. Fact-Finding Processes in the Regulation of Energy and theEnvironment: Electricity Exports, the Burrard Thermal GeneratingStation, and Air Quality in the Lower Fraser Basin / Paul Bradleyand Chris Sanderson

7. Institutions for Sustainable Development of Natural Resources inBritish Columbia / David Cohen, Anthony Scott and JohnRobinson

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