Henry M. Porter: Rocky Mountain Empire Builder

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With a career in films spanning nearly fifty years, Burt Lancaster brought his unique charisma and energy to roles in films ranging from the adventurous to the bittersweet. This comprehensive filmography of Lancaster's career is accompanied by a biography that provides the background for his immense range of work on the screen. Production information, a synopsis, and commentary is provided for each of Lancaster's 85 films, from the first-The Killers-to the last-Separate But Equal. Photographs from nearly all of Lancaster's films accompany the text, and an index and bibliography are also included.

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highly valued replacement text..........2001-01-06

Dave Fury's similar treatment, (1989) will be re-issued in 2002. Ed's filmography is the definitive narrative, useful key to popular 'cult' classic 50's film starring Burt..."Sweet Smell of Success" for which Ann Hornaday, ex-film critic Baltimore Sun, has a book in development.

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This is a book about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market everything from the New York Review of Books to Bass Ale. Brenda Silver analyzes Virginia Woolf's surprising visibility in both high and popular culture, showing how her image and authority have been claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, anger, sexuality, gender, class, the canon, feminism, race, and fashion.

From Virginia Woolf's 1937 appearance on the cover of Time magazine to her current roles in theater, film, and television, Silver traces the often contradictory representations and the responses they provoke, highlighting the recurring motifs that associate Virginia Woolf with fear. By looking more closely at who is afraid and the contexts in which she is perceived to be frightening, Silver illustrates how Virginia Woolf has become the site of conflicts about cultural boundaries and legitimacy that continue to rage today.

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, the Waves (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism)

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Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, the Waves (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism)

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That icon: Woolf.(Virginia Woolf Icon) (book review) : An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

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That icon: Woolf.(Virginia Woolf Icon) (book review) : An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Maria DiBattista
Manufacturer: ELT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, published by ELT Press on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1693 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: That icon: Woolf.(Virginia Woolf Icon) (book review)
Author: Maria DiBattista
Publication: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: ELT Press
Volume: 45 Issue: 3 Page: 348(5)

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Virginia Woolf Icon.(Book Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review

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Virginia Woolf Icon.(Book Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
Jim Stewart
Manufacturer: Modern Humanities Research Association
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 623 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Virginia Woolf Icon.(Book Review)
Author: Jim Stewart
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 97 Issue: 4 Page: 943-944

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Virginia Woolf Icon (Women in Culture and Society Series)

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Virginia Woolf Icon (Women in Culture and Society Series)
Brenda R. Silver
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPWXLA

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Engaging paper doll collection from World War I era, selected from original plates in Good Housekeeping magazine (1919–1921) depicts in full-color 29 dolls and 89 costumes, including outfits for the beach, camping, school, dress-up parties, Easter, May Day celebrations, Halloween, Christmas and more. Accompanied by period accessories.

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polly pratt paper dolls.......2000-03-26

the first thing i need to say is that polly pratt is a paper doll set not a book. it is a large collection of young girls and a few boys, with lots of outfits and toys. if you like paper dolls this is a good set. if you like this set, the artist also drew "lettie lane" and "more lettie lane" but the charactors are drawn smaller so you can't use these 3 sets together. i prefer polly pratt to lettie lane.

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The suite of utility applications that Unix users and administrators find indispensable--Telnet, rlogin, FTP, and the rest--can in fact prove to be the undoing of interconnected systems. The Secure Shell, a.k.a. SSH (which isn't a true shell at all) provides your otherwise attack-prone utilities with the protection they need. SSH: The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide explains how to use SSH at all levels. In a blended sequence, the book explains what SSH is all about, how it fits into a larger security scheme, and how to employ it as an everyday user with an SSH client. More technically detailed chapters show how to configure a SSH server--several variants are covered--and how to integrate SSH with non-Unix client platforms.

As befits its detail- and variation-rich subject, this book comprises many specialized sections, each dealing with some specific aspect of use or configuration (setting up access control at the account level, for example, or generating keys for a particular SSH server). The writing is both informative and fun to read; the authors switch back and forth between text and entry-and-response listings from SSH machines. They often run through a half-dozen or more variants on the same command in a few pages, providing the reader with lots of practical information. The discussion of how SSH fits into a Kerberos Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is great, as is the advice on defeating particular kinds of attacks. --David Wall

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The Secure Shell (SSH) for installers, administrators, and everyday users
SSH design and operation
Server setup
SSH agents
Client configuration
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) integration
SSH1
SSH2
F-Secure
OpenSSH for Unix
SSH1 and SecureCRT for Microsoft Windows
NiftyTelnet SSH for Mac OS

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Are you serious about network security? Then check out SSH, the Secure Shell, which provides key-based authentication and transparent encryption for your network connections. It's reliable, robust, and reasonably easy to use, and both free and commercial implementations are widely available for most operating systems. While it doesn't solve every privacy and security problem, SSH eliminates several of them very effectively. Everything you want to know about SSH is in our second edition of SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide. This updated book thoroughly covers the latest SSH-2 protocol for system administrators and end users interested in using this increasingly popular TCP/IP-based solution. How does it work? Whenever data is sent to the network, SSH automatically encrypts it. When data reaches its intended recipient, SSH decrypts it. The result is "transparent" encryption-users can work normally, unaware that their communications are already encrypted. SSH supports secure file transfer between computers, secure remote logins, and a unique "tunneling" capability that adds encryption to otherwise insecure network applications. With SSH, users can freely navigate the Internet, and system administrators can secure their networks or perform remote administration. Written for a wide, technical audience, SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide covers several implementations of SSH for different operating systems and computing environments. Whether you're an individual running Linux machines at home, a corporate network administrator with thousands of users, or a PC/Mac owner who just wants a secure way to telnet or transfer files between machines, our indispensable guide has you covered. It starts with simple installation and use of SSH, and works its way to in-depth case studies on large, sensitive computer networks. No matter where or how you're shipping information, SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide will show you how to do it securely.

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It is administrators guide, not implementors guide.......2007-09-27

This is good for beginners and administrators to get an understanding of the SSH. After reading it, you will know, how to set up and configure the SSH.

However, it will not give you details of the SSH protocol for an implementor. I had to look into chapter 7 of "VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec by Jon C. Snader" to get an overview of how the SSH protocol really works behind the doors. This chapter gave pictorial descriptions as opposed to textual descriptions in the SSH RFCs.

In the next version, I would expect this book to contain a chapter giving implementation details of the SSH protocol.

It does help me a lot.......2007-06-08

This book really take me thro' for what I need to know in order to support the deployed SFTP solution. Now, I have clear idea in selecting options while building the package.

About what you would expect.......2006-11-10

I am a consultant and used this book on an integration project. There is not much special about this book. It is relatively difficult to find information on a topic as the author tries to integrate the information on ssh1, ssh2 and open ssh and it is sometimes not clear what something applies to or not. Not much else available and at least one revision has already been issued.

Stick to the man page.......2006-10-20

This is one of those O'Reilly books that actually makes you stupider than you were before having read it.

Face it, nobody reads books like this cover-to-cover. We might go through the introduction and the first few chapters, but after that we jump around to the parts we want to know about right now. The authors of this book have done everything in their power to make sure that this is not possible. In my case, I was interested in learning more about the various options involved in port forwarding, so I skipped ahead to chapter 9, which is dedicated to the subject. Unfortunately for me, I was completely lost, not because I had no grasp of the concepts involved, but because of the horrible writing, illustration and page layout choices.

First off, the authors seem to be big fans of mathematics, as they frequently contract long, complex statements into single letters they have chosen arbitrarily. Now this might not be a big problem when you're talking about getting from "computer A" to "computer B", but when providing examples of commands one is to enter into a terminal that look like this:

ssh -L2001:S:143 S

or even better yet:

ssh -g -L P:S:W B

It gets pointlessly confusing. If you don't already know what you're doing, you'll probably think that those capital letters are arguments you should type into your terminal rather than the names of computers and ports you're supposed to insert yourself, especially when there are absolutely NO full, syntactically correct examples of these commands given anywhere in the book. It's like it would kill them to type out a single working example. I would suggest the possibility that they might suffer from severe carpal tunnel syndrome as an explanation for this terseness were it not for the amazing displays of verbosity these very same authors seem to be capable of whenever another opportunity to shamelessly plug Tectia presents itself. If I didn't know better I'd think there was a product placement deal at work here.

On top of all of this, the illustrations are just awful. Not only are they frequently as ambiguous as the command line examples they are meant to illustrate, but they are also labeled inconsistently, and worst of all, are often placed 2-3 pages away from the text they are meant to compliment. You can easily waste hours of time flipping back and forth between lines like "ssh -g -L P:S:W B" and the pictures of poorly drawn boxes which defy all laws of perspective and clouds with arrows pointing all over the place that are meant to clarify them somehow.

I'm sure the authors know a lot more about SSH than I ever will, but they cannot write, and I wish O'Reilly's editors would start enforcing some kind of quality control in their publications. There are free tutorials out there that are better than this tripe, and many of them are written by 11 year olds.

Makes sense of the obscure land of SSH.......2005-06-21

For something that should be simple SSH is anything but a walk in the park. This is compounded by the fact that the documentation for SSH just blows. This book, however, does everything but blow. In classic O'Reilly fashion the author decomposes the topic and covers it effectively from almost every angle with excellent writing and superb graphics. This is a great book for anyone who uses SSH, or who is having issues with it.

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This title is in its 3rd printing. Inside you will find the story of the inventor, his men and the innovative weapon they used. 125 pp., 7"x9 1/2". Hardcover.

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A Very Good Specialty Study!.......2007-03-08

This very detailed dissertation on the Berdan Sharpshooters, their favorite weapon, and other similar sharpshooter regiments to a lesser degree, gives the reader some interesting information on this famous regiment that is less well known outside of staunch Civil War enthusiasts. The detail on the Sharps Carbine is almost too detailed for all but that enthusiast - with serial numbering of the various weapons, years of production, etc. An interesting read, though, for the reenactor, Civil War history buff, collector or hobbiest!

A Civil War hobbiest

SHARPSHOOTER: HIRAM BERDAN, HIS FAMOUS SHARPSHOOTERS AND THEIR SHARPS RIFLES - MAN AT ARMS MONGRAPH SERIES NO 3

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SHARPSHOOTER: HIRAM BERDAN, HIS FAMOUS SHARPSHOOTERS AND THEIR SHARPS RIFLES - MAN AT ARMS MONGRAPH SERIES NO 3
Wiley Sword
Manufacturer: Andrew Mowbray Incorporated/Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JRN6RS

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"Nearly seventy-five years of my lifetime have come and gone since hearing of the sparse historical events from the old-timers," American Indian elder George Aguilar tells us. "It's my turn now." When the River Ran Wild! is Aguilar's recounting of events he heard about while watching his grandmother make moccasins by the light of a coal-oil lamp and while strapped to the back of his aunt's horse on the way to the huckleberry grounds. He learned them at Coyote's Fishing Place, where his uncles built scaffolds and taught him how to use traditional technologies to catch salmon as they made their seasonal runs up the river.

In this remarkable personal memoir and tribal history, we learn about Aguilar's people, the Kiksht-speaking Eastern Chinookans, who lived and worked for centuries connected to the rhythms and resources of the great fishing grounds of the Columbia River at Five Mile Rapids.

When the River Ran Wild! is the story of a culture and a community that has undergone tremendous change since 1805, when the River People encountered Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they traveled down the Columbia River on their way to the Pacific Ocean. To find the stories of that change, Aguilar draws on the journals and diaries of early White missionaries and settlers, such as Gabriel Franchere, Rev. Henry Perkins of Wascopum Mission, and A. B. Meacham. He found other stories in anthropological papers and historical studies that recorded the voices of people who practiced and remembered ceremonies and traditions that were lost or changed during the difficult years of removal to the Warm Springs Reservation in north-central Oregon. He heard yet others from tribal elders who have kept the history and stories of the River People in their memories.

When the River Ran Wild! is the history of names and naming, of deep family connections, and of traditional customs. It is a descriptive catalogue of the plants the River People used for sustenance and medical purposes, and it is a detailed guide on how to pack out an elk and how to tan a hide. Aguilar retells the stories and myths of the river, the stories that "are now infrequent and told from books in the English language," the stories whose "body language, animal mimicry, and facial expressions are gone."

Aguilar has written this book to help us know what the River People have lost on the Columbia River over the decades, but he also gives testimony to what has been conserved and enlivened by a people who love the land and who honor tradition and those who came before. He takes us, perhaps better than anyone else can, back to a time when the river ran wild.

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When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation.(Book Review) : An article from: Environmental Law

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EHT8GG
Release Date: 2006-02-18

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Law, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 484 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation.(Book Review)
Publication: Environmental Law (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35 Issue: 4 Page: 1110(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Four million people have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in this country, yet most live in silent shadows, their stories untold. In Speaking Our Minds, seven diagnosed individuals of various ages and backgrounds express their thoughts and feelings about what it is like to have Alzheimer's disease, to live with it day to day, and to cope with its impact on their lives. Although afflicted with the same disease, each person's experience is unique. Told with honesty and insight, their stories cover personal history, diagnosis, family and social interactions, philosophical and religious perspectives, and the many neurological and pychological dimensions of the disease that permeate their lives. Transcribed from taped, in-home interviews, the seven narratives are interspersed with the author's own thoughts and observations about the different lives unfolding before her and of the disease whose common themes bind them all together. What emerges is a powerful and compassionate portrait of people forced to define themselves in new ways, not just by what has been lost, but also by what endures. A unique and illuminating exploration of the subjective experience of Alzheimer's disease, Speaking Our Minds offers hope and understanding to anyone whose life has been irrevocably touched by it.

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Anecdotes from the words of Diagnosed ALZ people.......2002-07-18

Being recently dianosed with CRS, see my review of Shenk's "The Forgetting," I want to know from others who have been there, what is ahead of me. I am a member of two ALZ support groups, one mixed, and one for ALZers by themselves. Recently at a social party where I was experiencing data overload, I confided to a woman of my own age, that I was diagnosed with ALZ. She immediately said she was also, and we immediately began comparing symptoms, just as other ALZers do when their caregivers are not around!
This book fullfills my needs for the stories from those who are there. No story fits me exactly, yet parts of each show me that I am not unique, that I need not fit the popular mold, e.g. "Iris," of where and who I am. Just as the 42 stories at the rear of "Alcoholics Anonymous" give understanding and light to those afflicted with another incurable pathology, so do these bring hope and understanding to me: "I Am Not Alone!"
There is an abundance of tomes dealing with the diagnosis and care of ALZers. Those few books which let one ALZ speak to another ALZ are far between. ["Living in the Labyrinth" by McGowan is another in this small select company.]
If you, a friend, or a relative has ever been given a tentative or conclusive diagnosis of ALZ, run, don't walk, to get a copy of "Speaking Our Minds" to them. If like me, their reading capabilities have substantially deteriiorated, please, please read it to them!

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Interesting Book.......2001-12-21

An interesting read that provides insight into the mind of Alzheimer patients-nicely done..

Cases are too similar.......2001-11-15

I want to know whether my mother is suffering, I want to know whether she is aware of her disease, and if so, what does she think of it. I want to know what, if anything, I can say or do to comfort her.

And after reading Lisa Snyder's book I still don't have a clue.

Mom's symptoms of Alzheimer's appeared a year and a half ago. She can not, or will not, talk about it. And in this short time her condition has deteriorated mightily. But she isn't like any of the subjects in this book. The people Lisa writes about seem to be at an earlier stage, and to be very self-aware and open to concepts such as therapy. I cannot draw much from their stories.

That said, the book is well written and interesting, and it gives me some comfort to read of people who are living fairly well with this very sad disease. For many readers this will be a 4- or 5- star book, but not for me, not at this time.

A Classic Among Books About Alzheimer's Disease.......2000-05-29

This book is suitable for anyone involved in the struggle with AD as well as the general public. I am the husband and caretaker of a wife who was diagnosed five years ago at the age of 53. I am also a social worker, and as I read this book I felt proud that a fellow social worker had written it. This book is full of up to date information concerning AD and it also provides an insightful look at seven individuals who are coping with AD. Lisa Synder has actually worked with people with AD for over a decade and she combines thoughts of persons suffering from AD with her own observations. In most of the vignettes, she writes about an initial interview and then she returns several years later to continue the dialogue and to bring us up to date in the situation. Ms. Synder demonstrates both compassion and admiration toward those she writes about. In the course of this book she dispells many of the misconceptions held by the public concerning AD. I don't think that anyone who reads this book will be disappointed.

"Speaking Our Minds" is a major contribution to Alzheimer's.......2000-01-12

Alzheimer's is the 4th leading cause of adult death and the 3rd most costly disease; it also may be the disease most people don't want to know about. "Speaking Our Minds" (W. H. Freeman, 1999, New York) should change that--for patients, families, and clinicians.

When clinicians state they're "in practice," they're recognizing the benefit of learning from direct contact with people afflicted with diseases-for which no medical textbook can substitute. However Lisa Snyder's book is not a textbook. All but 16 pages of her book are devoted to seven case histories. Her vivid descriptions (in italics) provide glimpses of the settings in which patients and caregivers live. The patients' transcribed words (in normal type) exemplify the most common ways of coping with Alzheimer's Disease, from being informed-the bad news diagnoses-to the ongoing toll it takes on autonomy, to being depressed over the ever increasing burden it places on their caregivers.

The poignancy of these tales is enhanced as the author reveals her own emotions through excellent writing. One example: "I effectively redirected my preoccupation with the apartment drapery, reached within, and tugged back my own internal curtains." She equally shares her own attitude as well as those of the patients toward this disease. Denial, anger, humor, depression, and spiritual acceptance are all illustrated. Snyder's gift for writing is effective; for instance, this metaphor: "Alzheimer's disease has many hues. Unfortunately, the diagnosis often extinguishes the light with which to view them."

Patients, caregivers, and clinicians can all glean much understanding and some cautious hope from Snyder's relating these patients' experiences; for example, what it's like to have memory fail, the gift of temporarily forgetting they forget, or the simple joy of another moment in a "second childhood." Readers may accept the author's implicit suggestions for coping: talk honestly to friends and relatives, attend groups, as well as the general approach to responding to their handicap from a better understanding of how the disease has effected them. People unfamiliar with the disease may be impressed with how much quality of life there is in both the early and middle stages, of the disease. Even a severely impaired individual, who depends on others for most activities of daily living, may still retain his/her voice and sweet personality.

One area of the book that no follow-up interview tackled, however, was the devastating manifestations of end-stage disease and the difficult choices that sometimes then need to be made. Perhaps this is a topic in itself, for another book.

Although I am a clinician, I learned much from these seven cases. Psychiatrists are usually called in to see Alzheimer's patients only when they become "management problems," which means when their behavior has passed

the threshold of being tolerated by caregivers. Until recently, I had little contact with people in the earlier stages--where the transition from normal to severely impaired occurs. For this reader, and I imagine, many others of diverse background, therefore, Lisa Snyder's book is a major contribution.

Stanley A. Terman, Ph.D., M.D., heads Peaceful Transitions, a group of professionals from various professional disciplines to help terminal patients and their families, and can be reached at DrTerman@aol.com.

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Speaking Our Minds : Personal Reflections from Individuals with Alzheimer's
Lisa Snyder
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Alzheimer's Disease | Disorders & Diseases | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000MU6MXW

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Efficiency is the hallmark of environmental economics. Economists are concerned with the environment primarily because it challenges the efficiency of competitive markets. Yet limited attention has been paid to distributional issues.

The essays in this volume identify and address the main issues in the inequality-environment relationship, issues such as: Does increasing economic inequality lead to better or worse environmental quality? Which individual or social features play a role in determining the differentiated impact of changes in the environment? What impact does economic inequality or social segmentation have on collective action? How important is the complex economic and social institution in which the inequality-environment takes place?

This book will prove essential to economists with an interest in the environment and will be useful to readers with a more general environmental studies background.

Power distribution, the external environment and common property forest governance: A local user groups model [An article from: Ecological Economics]

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Power distribution, the external environment and common property forest governance: A local user groups model [An article from: Ecological Economics]
V. Perez-Cirera , and J.C. Lovett
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000P6XKSS

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper presents a recursive model that links power distribution imbalances with collective benefits and costs related to local common property forest governance. Using cross-sectional analysis of 38 local common property forest user groups, ejidos and comunidades, in La Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico, we test the impacts of power inequalities on different common property forest governance outcomes. Three measures of power inequality are used: intra-group power disparities; links between the ejido authority and external political forces; and asset disparities between the authority and the group average. The proxies of power were found to be a key determinant of forest change and other collective action related variables. The findings provide evidence in favour of the hypothesis that, with greater power inequalities within the group, agents with more power are able to impose higher costs on those with less power. Powerful leaders may provide positive externalities to the group in the form of norms. However, results indicate that greater power inequality tends to lead to more illegal logging and more forest degradation.

Environment Inequality and Collective Action

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Environment Inequality and Collective Action
Marcello Basili
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MVBP9W

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