Renewable natural resourcses : a management handbook for the 1980s

This book is enormous in scope and impossible to describe in just a few words. It presents in reasonably comprehensive, sequential, and logical form the sum total of our national knowledge about renewable energy resources. It deals with these resources in terms of opportunities and dangers, in terms of current availability and possible expansion, in terms of how natural resources relate to human resources and needs, and in terms of their replacement potential for nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels. The book also puts domestic resources and needs into the context of International needs, supplies, and policies, emphasizing the issues facing an interdependent world and the urgent requirements perceived by countries less en dowed than the United States.

handbook for the concerned citizen as well as for This is a resource managers and policymakers on local, regional, and na tional levels. The analyses it contains underscore the fact that there are no easy answers: everything is part of an interlocking system, and every decision will affect multiple aspects of our daily lives and indeed our very existence. The authors emphasize the crucial importance of early planning, balanced management, and timely decisions while suggesting that something more is re quired a new ideology and a new educational approach.

Over 200 eminent experts associated with or doing research for the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy, the Congres sional Research Service, the U.S. Senate, and many of the nation's outstanding universities, think tanks, and consulting firms participated in the creation of this book. Dennis L. Little, senior editor, is a specialist in futures research at the Congres sional Research Service in the Library of Congress. Robert E. Dils was formerly director of the U.S. Forest Service, and John Gray is director of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies, U.S. Forest Service.