The Fisherman's Problem by Arthur F Mcevoy
The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a study of the interaction among resource ecology, economic enterprise, and law in the history of the California fishing industry. It analyzes the ways in which the natural environment not only provided the raw material for economic development but played an active role in it as well. As this book shows, the natural environment has a history both independent of, and yet influenced by, classic example of 'common property' re-environmental conservation generally, as well as in the management of the fisheries of the world's rivers and oceans. Professor McEvoy discusses the different ways in which human communities have harvested and managed the region's fisheries, from those of the American Indians and immigrants from Europe and Asia to those of modern, industrial-bureaucratic society. By reconstructing the ecological history of the fisheries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this study develops a new perspective on environmental problems as contemporary observers understood them and on the results of their efforts to deal with those problems. The book concludes with an analysis of significant changes taking place in the 1970s and 1980s in the politics and theory of resource management. By combining a synthesis of recent scholarship in such disciplines as law, economics, marine biology, and anthropology with original research into the fishing industry's history, the book represents a significant new departure in the study of ecology and change in human society.-
Nature's Economy
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Mao's War against Nature
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Ecological Imperialism
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Green Imperialism
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The Ends of the Earth
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The Bulldozer in the Countryside
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The Destruction of the Bison
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Tunguska
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Greyhound Nation
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Climate Change and the Course of Global History
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The Catch
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A Plague of Sheep
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Vietnam's Coal Frontier
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The American Steppes
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The Nature of Disaster in China
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Environment, Power, and Injustice
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Forests in Revolutionary France
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The Guts of the Matter
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The Green and the Brown
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Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta
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Americans and their Forests
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Nature and the English Diaspora
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Humanity's Burden
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Pipe Dreams
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The Frigid Golden Age
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The Nature of the Ottoman City
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Empire of Timber
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Pemmican Empire
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Sediments of Time
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The Untilled Garden
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Evolutionary History
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Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
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The Power of the Periphery
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Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
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The Nature of Soviet Power
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The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800
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The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
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The Caribbean Slave
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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
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Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
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The Ecology of War in China
'This is a lucid and imaginative account of the interaction between nature, the economic struggle, and the American legal orderIt is a strong contribution to the socio-legal history of our country.' Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521385862 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521385865 |
| Title | The Fisherman's Problem |
| Author | Arthur F Mcevoy |
| Series | Studies In Environment And History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1990-01-26 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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