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Energy is a world issue and since future developments, particulary of oil, are of paramount importance to the UK economy, we have to take a world view. We start by discussing the prospects of the supply and price of oil; the outlook for other types of primary energy as well will be considered briefly.

State web portal to provide a single place to discover, learn about, and access available salmon and watershed data for Washington State. This represents the first phase in the development of this portal and includes a searchable catalog with simple links to datasets and their associated metadata ("data about the data"). This catalog currently includes spatial datasets, tabular datasets, reports and studies. This site has been designed for a wide range of users who may be interested in salmon and watershed data including scientists, watershed planners/managers, consultants, and the general public.

Examines the concept of community as a means of implementing renewable natural resource management. Decades of exclusionary conservation policies failed to protect resources & have had undesirable distributive effects. The poor populations that have most needed the resources have been marginalized & disempowered. A central role for community in conservation may improve the opportunities of poor rural communities. Presently, over 50 countries have reported attempts to form partnerships with local communities in conservation & have made new attempts to distribute the benefits of environmental management within the community. Conceptualizations of community in conservation & resource management are explored, including community as a small spatial unit, as a homogeneous social structure, & as shared norms. Implementation of community-based natural resource management policies will require an understanding of the community, including the multiplicity of actors & interests, institutions & processes, & the production of community. Careful images of community are required to understand its internal differences & processes, its interactions with the outside world, & the institutions that structure their interactions. L. A. Hoffman

This volume features coverage of: the intertemporal problem externalities and market failure; property rights institutions and public choice; the economics of exhaustible resources; and the economics of renewable resources. Each section represents a major area in natural resource economics