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Island Press began with a simple idea: knowledge is power—the power to imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there. Founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems.

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Environmental Land Use Planning and Management

By John Randolph

Island Press

Environmental Land Use Planning and Management is a unique new textbook that presents a diverse, comprehensive, and coordinated approach to issues of land use planning and management and their impacts on the environment.

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Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

A Framework For Assessment

By Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes

The Upper San Pedro River Basin In Arizona And Sonora

By Carl Steinitz, Hector Arias, Scott Bassett, Michael Flaxman, Thomas Goode, Thomas Maddock, David Mouat, Richard Peiser, and Allan Shearer

Island Press

Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents for the first time in book form a detailed case study of one alternative futures project — an analysis of development and conservation options for the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

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Ranching West of the 100th Meridian

Culture, Ecology, and Economics

Edited by Richard L. Knight, Wendell Gilgert, and Ed Marston

Island Press

Ranching West of the 100th Meridian offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West.

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The Regional City

By Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton

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A Guide to Careers in Community Development

By Paul Brophy and Alice Shabecoff

Island Press

A Guide to Careers in Community Development is an essential reference for anyone interested in working in the community development field, including graduate and undergraduate students.

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