• List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Preface to Second Edition; 1. Introduction 2. Natural Resources: Their Nature and Scarcity 3. Minerals: Distribution, Production and Economics 4. The Performance of the Mineral Production Process 5. Public Intervention in the Minerals Sector 6. Renewable Resources: The Diversity of Perspectives 7. The Allocation of Renewable Resource Flows: Economic Perspectives and Mechanisms 8. Evaluating Conservation and Flaw Augmentation Decisions 9. The Policy and Practice of Renewable Resource Management 10. Muddling Through, Social Revolution or Ecocatastrophe? 11. Postscript: The Search for Sustainability; References; References for Second Edition; Author Index; Subject Index

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