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Forest Community Connections
Ellen M. Donoghue and Victoria E. Sturtevant, Editors
Forthcoming June 2008


This book examines the responses of forest communities to changing forest values, changing federal policy, timber industry restructuring, and concerns about forest health. Focusing primarily on the United States, the book examines the ways that social scientists work with communities--their role in facilitating social learning, informing policy decisions, and contributing to community well being.

 

Forthcoming from RFF Press

    

 

Choosing Safety
A Guide to Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis in Complex, High Consequence Systems
Michael V. Frank
Forthcoming June 2008


This is the first book to bring together probabilistic risk assessment and decision analysis using real case studies from engineering in the technological age. Choosing Safety is for managers, project leaders, engineers, and scientists who create, design, develop, operate, or maintain high consequence, complex systems and products.

Forthcoming from RFF Press

    

Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America
Roger A. Sedjo, Editor
Forthcoming June 2008

A follow-up to RFF's popular America's Renewable Resources (1990), Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America updates readers about the current challenges involved in managing America's natural resources, especially in light of the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ecosystem approaches to management.

Forthcoming from RFF Press

    

Taming the Anarchy
Groundwater Governance in South Asia
Tushaar Shah
Forthcoming August 2008

Investigates the forces behind the transformation of South Asian irrigation and considers its social, economic, and ecological impacts. Shah argues that, without effective governance, the resulting groundwater stress threatens the sustenance of the agrarian system and therefore the well being of the nearly one and a half billion people who live in South Asia.