RUSSIAN FAR EAST - Softcover

Newell, Josh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880284758 ISBN 13: 9781880284759

Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers, 2015

The Russian Far East (RFE) is a vital storehouse of oil and gas, timber, fish, and precious metals that will inevitably be tapped as Pacific Rim economies seek to secure the natural resources necessary for long-term economic growth. Sustainable development of the resources in this vast region� an area more than two-thirds the size of the United States�has emerged as a major policy priority for the Russian government and the international community. The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development is the most comprehensive English-language reference text on the region to be published in the more than ten years. With contributions from an interdisciplinary team of ninety specialists from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, the book overviews and analyzes the region’s geography and ecology, natural resources, major industries, infrastructure, foreign trade, demographics, protected area system, and legal structure. Particular attention is devoted to how to region can develop in an environmentally sustainable way. The book is divided into eleven chapters. The first chapter summarizes the RFE as a whole, while each of the remaining ten chapters deal with an administrative region within the Russian Far East. All of the chapters are divided into identical sections to simplify comparison among the regions. More than fifty maps, a number of which are in color, detail administrative districts and indigenous peoples' lands, protected areas, mineral deposits, timber resources, fisheries, and energy reserves. Tables and figures provide the reader with a wealth of useful, hard-to-find statistics. Color and black and white photographs.

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About the Author:

Josh Newell has worked for and with Friends of the Earth since his graduation from Brown University in 1991. He organized tours for Friends of the Earth-Japan to some of Asia's wildest places. In 1994 he moved to Vladivostok, where he began his work gathering data about the Russian Far East for the RFE Biodiverstiy Hotspot Study. From 1996-1999, Josh divided his time between Vladivostk and Tokoyo working as a consultant for various U.N. agencies, Japanese government agencies, and charitable foundations. He also represented Russian and Japanese environemental concerns at the 1997 Kyoto Climate Change Conference, the 1999 World Trade Organization Ministerial in Seattle, the annual G-8 meetings, and other forums. He received his master's degree in goegrahy in 2002 from University of Washington, where he is now completing his doctorate.

Review:

"An excellent one-stop shop for informatin on the Russian Far East." -- Dr. Michael Bradshaw, Professor, University of Leicester, 2004

"No person with an interest in the Russian Far East should be without this book." -- Russian Life Magazine, 2004

"This book is extremely informative, well organized, and easy to read. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels." -- Choice, September 2004

"This will undoubtedly be the definitive reference source on the Russian Far East for some years to come." -- Library Journal, May 2004

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