Wildfire Risk: Human Perceptions and Management Implications
Wade E. Martin, Carol Raish, and Brian Kent, Editors

Wildfire Risk follows from an increasing awareness among fire experts that relying on fire behavior models from the physical sciences to design a risk management program is no longer sufficient - and that simply increasing public knowledge related to wildfire hazard does not necessarily lead to appropriate risk reduction behaviors. Public land managers, property developers, landowners, and politicians must ask more about the social and psychological factors that motivate people to respond appropriately to risk.

The Softwood Lumber War
Politics, Economics, and the Long U.S.-Canadian Trade Dispute
by Daowei Zhang

An unprecedentedly detailed evaluation of how the softwood lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada began and how it was sustained for nearly 20 years. The book considers the implications that may follow from the 2006 agreement between nations, and the broader lessons that might be learned about international trade conflicts.

From the Corn Belt to the Gulf
Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures
Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelmann, and Donald Scavia, Editors

Examines how new agricultural policy can help alleviate the "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, and at the same time improve water quality overall, enhance biodiversity, improve the quality of life for the people who live and work in Corn belt communities, and relieve downstream flooding.

Wye Island
Insiders, Outsiders, and Change in a Chesapeake Community
(Special Reprint Edition)
Boyd Gibbons

"Wye Island is primarily about people: clammers, crabbers, business executives, storekeepers, land speculators....Gibbons succeeds in portraying the fear shared by the local citizens - and by implication, most Americans - of change" -Smithsonian

The Challenge of Rural Electrification
Strategies for Developing Countries
Douglas F. Barnes, Editor

The Challenge of Rural Electrification is an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.3 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts present lessons from successful programs in Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Tunisia, as well as Ireland and the United States.

Negotiated Learning
Collaborative Monitoring in Forest Resource Management
Irene Guijt, Editor 

The first book to critically examine how monitoring can be an effective tool in participatory resource management, Negotiated Learning draws on the first-hand experiences of researchers and development professionals in eleven countries in Africa, Asia, and South America.

Liquid City
Megalopolis and the Contemporary Northeast
John Rennie Short

"A timely and valuable work for those interested in the origin and evolution of the Northeast's megalopolis. The engaging style will be appreciated by audiences in academics and beyond - including policy makers, planners and the general public." -Robert Lang, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech

Voices from the Forest
Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Farming
Malcolm Cairns, editor

Unprecedented in ambition and scope, this handbook of successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers in the Asia-Pacific region brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity.

This report, Extending the Cure: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance, is a comprehensive study that explores incentive-based policies to protect antibiotic effectiveness, a valuable shared resource.

This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary book to address water policy in Jordan. Edited by the former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, with contributions by other prominent Jordanian and international water professionals, this volume covers such areas as the population-water resources equation in Jordan; institutional and legal frameworks; the data systems used for the assessment and formulation of water policy; water allocations and uses in municipal, industrial, and agricultural sectors; social and environmental issues; and water conflict with Jordan's neighbors.

Emissions Trading
Principles and Practice,
2nd Edition
Thomas H. Tietenberg

The second edition of one of the most widely cited works in the tradable permits literature, Emissions Trading offers a comprehensive overview of what we have learned about this important environmental policy instrument after twenty-five years of theory, practice, and research.

Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries Collective Impacts, Collective Action
Allen Blackman, editor

"After years of mounting concern and confusion, this book blazes a trail for the design and implementation of efficient, effective, equitable environmental management policies for small firms in developing countries."
- Eduardo Uribe, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Zoned Out Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use Jonathan Levine "A long overdue correction to the notion that alternatives to sprawl are anti-market. Levine demonstrates that the opposite is true: sprawl is mandated by public policy and frustrates an increasingly diverse market."--Peter Calthorpe, Calthorpe Associates

The Urban Household Energy Transition
Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World
Doublas F. Barnes, Kerry Krutilla, and William F. Hyde

In the first worldwide assessment, this data-rich book looks at geographic, biological, and socioeconomic indicators to outline the problems and policy options associated with each stage in the energy transition.

Toward Safer Food Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting Sandra Hoffmann and Michael R. Taylor, editors This book brings together leading scientists, risk analysts, and economists, as well as experienced regulators and policy analysts, to better define the priorities and to focus on the scientific and intellectual resources available to construct a risk analysis framework for improving food safety. Multi-disciplinary in scope, it provides a solid introduction to the existing data, research, and methodological approaches on which a system-wide risk analysis framework must draw.