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May 14, 2008

New Book: Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics

Available for book review, serious reviewers only:

Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics
JunJie Wu, Paul W. Barkley, and Bruce A. Weber, editors

February 2008/266 pages
Cloth, ISBN 978-1-933115-64-1 / $85.00
Paper, ISBN 978-1-933115-65-8 / $41.95

Book Description

Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics integrates the work of 18 leading scholars in resource economics, rural economics, rural sociology and political science in order to focus on two complex interdependencies - one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the other to urban and rural communities and their economies. ...

Submit your interest to review this book via email or in the comments. Under our first come, first served policy, the book review has been claimed. Thanks for your interest!

Comments

Living in a rural area, and being heavily impacted by growth restrictions which I beleive are designed to capture rural resources with out paying for them, I would love to review this book, and see what others think of the relationship of rural resources to rural economics.

Jingle is a big name in the field. Just on the fact that he's first author, I'd likely buy it.

Best,

D

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