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    Natural Assets: Democratizing Ownership Of Nature
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    Natural Assets: Democratizing Ownership Of Nature

    By James Boyce

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    Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environmhas been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant corporations or governmagencies. In such settings, initiatives that build natural assets in the hands of the poor can play an important role in poverty-fighting efforts.
    Natural Assets explores a range of strategies for expanding the quantity and enhancing the quality of natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. The book:•• examines the social construction of rights to natural resources and the environment
    • describes efforts to curtail pollution of the air, land, and water and to reclaim resources that have been appropriated and abused by polluters
    • considers sustainable agricultural practices that not only maintain but actually increase the stock of natural capital
    • explores strategies to promote sustainable forest managemwhile reducing rural poverty
    • examines the prospects for building natural assets in urban areas
    Drawing on evidence from across the United States, the authors demonstrate that safeguarding the environmand improving the well-being of the poor can be mutually reinforcing goals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateMay 2, 2003
    ISBN9781597262781
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    Natural Assets: Democratizing Ownership Of Nature
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    James Boyce

    James Boyce is the author of Born Bad (2014), 1835 (2011) and Van Diemen's Land (2008). Van Diemen’s Land, won the Tasmania Book Prize and the Colin Roderick Award and was shortlisted for the NSW, Victorian and Queensland premiers’ literary awards, as well as the Prime Minister’s award. Tim Flannery described it as “a brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people.” 1835, won the Age Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Western Australian Premier's Book Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. The Sunday Age described it as “A first-class piece of historical writing”. James Boyce wrote the Tasmania chapter for First Australians, the companion book to the acclaimed SBS TV series. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where he is an honorary research associate of the School of Geography and Environmental Studies.

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