Progress in Resource Management and Environmental Planning (Timothy O. Riordan and Turner R. Kerry) John Wiley and Sons Publishing Co., (1983) No. of pages 304.

Abstract

In the 304 pages of this book which is composed of eleven chapters including an<br>introduction and a conclusion, the authors pretty well displayed an indepth analysis<br>of resources development and its adverse impacts upon the environment. They could<br>show how resource development without paying attention to the possible environ-mental<br>deterioration could defeat its major purposes which are more income and<br>more goods and services. Resource development is generally associated with<br>environmental problems because it may pollute water and air and deteriorate the soil<br>by one way or another. The end results of the environmental deterioration range<br>from unhealthy conditions to partial or total loss of productivity. The social costs of<br>resource development could be higher than the social benefits in the long run if not<br>carefully done.