Lead Ore and Surveying le Pays des Illinois -- Early Mining and Smelting in North America -- Tracing Eighty Years of Early Mining Associations -- Early Mineralogical Assessments and Emerging Science -- Unhealthy Spaces Fitted Up with Furnaces.

The dissertation deals with the valuation of environmental goods under uncertainty and the capitalisation of energy efficiency in housing prices and rents. It assembles five papers. The first paper (Chapter 1) draws attention to two important elements that are not covered by the standard hedonic...

The method of inquiry -- Fracking for oil and natural gas in Texas and its impacts on the economy -- Environmental federalism and federal regulations on fracking -- Factors affecting states' decision to frack and State of Texas' regulations on fracking -- Fracking and its impacts on the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Climate turmoil: introducing a socioecological model of human action, environmental impact, and mounting vulnerability -- 2 The emergence and maturation of...

The agendas of those trying to reduce poverty and those trying to protect the environment have been at odds in the past. But they are coming together now due to a recognition of the increasing role of the environment in the lives of the poor in developing countries, especially with the changes...