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One: The New Abundant Energy Revolution & The Power of You
ISBN: 9781468085617 / Angielski / Miękka / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a mashup of breakthrough renewable energy technologies, networked socioeconomic trends emerging from the sharing economy and timeless spiritual philosophies to examine how we got here and where we may be headed. All articulated with real world stories from the perspective of someone who has spent a career lifetime studying network behavior and motivating positive actions through information design. Beyond addressing only the technical and political issues, the book also gets to the root behaviors that now drive our energy scarcity based economic activities. It proposes a new...
This book is a mashup of breakthrough renewable energy technologies, networked socioeconomic trends emerging from the sharing economy and timeless spi...
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A New Blueprint for a Green Economy
ISBN: 9781849713498 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Update to: Blueprint for a green economy / a report by David Pearce, Anil Markandya, Edward B. Barbier for the UK Department of the Environment. 1989.
Update to: Blueprint for a green economy / a report by David Pearce, Anil Markandya, Edward B. Barbier for the UK Department of the Environment. 1989.
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Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet
ISBN: 9781863955522 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: "The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves." In this groundbreaking essay, Charlton discusses the rift that will shape our future: progress versus planet; rich versus poor. In recent times environmentalists have argued with mounting force that the growth of human activity on our planet is unsustainable. We are, they claim, on a collision course with destiny. But, the...
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colle...
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Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges
ISBN: 9789004182646 / Angielski / Twarda / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published with the support of The New Zealand Law Foundation. As collapses and crises involving ecological systems, economic and financial management and international governance increase, the need for bold alternatives to traditional economic and legal responses has never been more urgent. Property concepts are an important element in the interaction between humans and the natural environment. An important driver of ecological harm, property concepts can also become a powerful tool for responding to ecological problems in ways that have so far eluded both government regulators and markets....
Published with the support of The New Zealand Law Foundation. As collapses and crises involving ecological systems, economic and financial management ...
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Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics
ISBN: 9789048175987 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics (SURED), held on Monte Verita in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004. Thirty years after the publication of the famous symposium issue of the Review of Economic Studies in 1974, which started the neoclassical literature on growth theory and resource economics. The conference sought to reinforce research efforts in order to provide adequate solutions for today s challenges in the ?eld of sustainable development. The c- ference compiled innovative research from resource, energy...
This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics (SURED), held on Monte Verita in...
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Economic Analysis of Environmental Problems
ISBN: 9789814390392 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces the basic tools of dynamic optimization in economics to study environmental problems, applies econometric methods to estimate and test the models derived by dynamic optimization, and discusses environmental problems in a broad perspective, including the design and implementation of environmental policies. Although the coverage is selective, it represents what the author has to offer from his perspective and experience gained in research in dynamic optimization, econometrics and policy analysis, especially for China. The volume is self-contained for readers with...
This book introduces the basic tools of dynamic optimization in economics to study environmental problems, applies econometric methods to estimate and...
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International Handbook on the Economics of Energy
ISBN: 9780857938251 / Angielski / Miękka / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As an essential component for economic growth, energy has a significant impact on the global economy. The need to meet growing energy demand has prompted cutting-edge innovation in clean technology in an attempt to realise environmental and cost objectives, whilst ensuring the security of energy supply. This Handbook offers a comprehensive review of the economics of energy, including contributions from a distinguished array of international specialists. It provides a thorough discussion of the major research issues in this topical field of economics.
As an essential component for economic growth, energy has a significant impact on the global economy. The need to meet growing energy demand has promp...
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Handbook of Environmental Accounting
ISBN: 9781847203847 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This concise Handbook examines welfare measurement problems in a dynamic economy, focusing on the welfare-economic foundations for social accounting. With environmental accounting becoming an increasingly important area of research, this timely Handbook assesses the ways in which the system of national accounts should be modified to accurately reflect the social value of economic activity, and how the comprehensive (or 'green') net national product ought to be measured. It also addresses the principles for measuring welfare in a community at a given point in time, cost-benefit analysis for...
This concise Handbook examines welfare measurement problems in a dynamic economy, focusing on the welfare-economic foundations for social accounting. ...
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Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future
ISBN: 9781849807401 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a combination of global data analysis and focused country level analysis, this timely book provides answers to the most pertinent country and industry specific questions defining the current relationship between technology, natural resources and economic growth. Shunsuke Managi takes a distinctive approach by focusing on the design and implementation of environmental regulations that encourage technological progress and, in doing so, looks at ways to ensure productivity improvements in the face of increasingly stringent environmental regulations and natural resource depletion. The...
Through a combination of global data analysis and focused country level analysis, this timely book provides answers to the most pertinent country and ...
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745,04 |
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Choice Modelling: Foundational Contributions
ISBN: 9780857937278 / Angielski / Twarda / 968 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choice modelling is an area of growing popularity as many researchers and consultants seek to find better ways to explain the choices made by individuals, households and firms in many application contexts such as transportation, health services, environmental science, marketing, finance, economics, tourism, vacationing, education and employment. Choice modelling as a field began as long ago as 1927 but it was the research in the 1960s and 1970s that cemented the field as a dominant one for studying choice. This authoritative volume, along with an original introduction by the editors, brings...
Choice modelling is an area of growing popularity as many researchers and consultants seek to find better ways to explain the choices made by individu...
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Environmental Tax Reform and the Labour Market: The Double Dividend in Different Labour Market Regimes
ISBN: 9781843761327 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1990s and 2000s the issue of general welfare double dividend (an improvement in environmental quality combined with a positive welfare effect) triggered by a tax shift from labour to energy resources has been extensively debated. In this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral shifts from labour to energy, and measures the impact on theoretical and empirical models of the European labour market.
During the 1990s and 2000s the issue of general welfare double dividend (an improvement in environmental quality combined with a positive welfare effe...
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Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: The Econometrics of Non-market Valuation
ISBN: 9781843763888 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Non-market valuation has become a broadly accepted and widely practiced means of measuring the economic values of the environment and natural resources. In this work, the authors provide a guide to the statistical and econometric practices that economists employ in estimating non-market values.
Non-market valuation has become a broadly accepted and widely practiced means of measuring the economic values of the environment and natural resource...
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The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation
ISBN: 9781843764861 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text analyses several manifestations of the growing 'environmental justice movement'. The author studies in detail many ecological distribution conflicts in history and at present.
This text analyses several manifestations of the growing 'environmental justice movement'. The author studies in detail many ecological distribution c...
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Models of Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781858982694 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide range of approaches to modelling sustainable development are examined in this book, along with their achievements and limitations. Also examined are key issues such as the irreversibility of ecological change, fundamental uncertainty and system complexity.
A wide range of approaches to modelling sustainable development are examined in this book, along with their achievements and limitations. Also examine...
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The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics: A Survey of Current Issues: 1997-98
ISBN: 9781858983691 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This yearbook is designed to provide economists working in environmental and resource economics, as well as those who are interested in knowing more about the field, with a comprehensive overview of the main issues, written by leading international scholars.
This yearbook is designed to provide economists working in environmental and resource economics, as well as those who are interested in knowing more a...
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Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment: Issues of Efficiency and Social Feasibility
ISBN: 9781858983653 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines Pigouvian taxes, one of the policies for dealing with increased traffic flow and congestion, as well as considering a variety of other policies which may be more politically and socially acceptable. Road pricing schemes are discussed as an alternative to Pigouvian taxes.
This text examines Pigouvian taxes, one of the policies for dealing with increased traffic flow and congestion, as well as considering a variety of ot...
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Energy, Environment and the Economy: Asian Perspectives
ISBN: 9781858983912 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asian nations increasingly have to balance energy needs with environmental impacts and economic growth. These critical issues for the development of Asian nations and the quality of life of their citizens are extensively addressed in this volume which focuses on research and policy perspectives.
Asian nations increasingly have to balance energy needs with environmental impacts and economic growth. These critical issues for the development of A...
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Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species: Methodological Issues and Applications
ISBN: 9781858984643 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work on environmental economics focuses on the principle of contingent valuation and its application to endangered species. It also considers methodological issues.
This work on environmental economics focuses on the principle of contingent valuation and its application to endangered species. It also considers met...
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Economics of Ecological Resources: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781858984735 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents recent work on ecological economics, sustainability, poverty, resource degradation and decision-making under uncertainty. It explores the allocation of resources in jointly-determined ecological-economic systems.
This work presents recent work on ecological economics, sustainability, poverty, resource degradation and decision-making under uncertainty. It explor...
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Frontiers in Ecological Economics: Transdisciplinary Essays by Robert Costanza
ISBN: 9781858985039 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study, the author's most important work on understanding ecological and economic systems is included. A particular contribution of his is that he transcends disciplinary booundaries by collaborating closely with other specialists, thereby constructing integrated analyses of interaction.
In this study, the author's most important work on understanding ecological and economic systems is included. A particular contribution of his is that...
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