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Cost-benefit Analysis and Water Resources Management
ISBN: 9781847202345 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are the economic values of water and water quality accounted for in policy and project appraisal? This important book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in water resources management throughout Europe and North America, along with an examination of current applications. The distinguished authors highlight problems and challenges encountered in the use of CBA in 15 country-specific case studies. Based on these case studies, the value and limits of CBA in water resources management are assessed and special attention is paid to the institutional and...
How are the economic values of water and water quality accounted for in policy and project appraisal? This important book gives an overview of the sta...
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293,17 |
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Modelling Global Change: The Art of Integrated Assessment Modelling
ISBN: 9781858987637 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of integrated assessment modelling, a subject brought into prominence by the debate on climate change whose goal is sustainable development. A transdisciplinary approach is used, which encompasses the main issues in a changing global system and coverage of methodological principles.
This is a study of integrated assessment modelling, a subject brought into prominence by the debate on climate change whose goal is sustainable develo...
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556,23 |
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Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries: Case Studies
ISBN: 9781848444621 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second of two volumes of case studies that illustrate how environmental economists place values on environmental assets and on the flows of goods and services generated by those assets. This important book assembles studies that discuss broad areas of application of economic valuation - from amenity and pollution through to water and health risks, from forestry to green urban space. In this, his last book, the late David Pearce brought together leading European experts, contributors to some two dozen case studies exploring the frontiers of economic valuation of natural resources...
This is the second of two volumes of case studies that illustrate how environmental economists place values on environmental assets and on the flows o...
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326,34 |
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Development Policies in Natural Resource Economies
ISBN: 9781840640090 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It looks at how to make the primary sector sufficiently productive to provide for investment in both itself and other sectors of the economy.
An examination of the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It l...
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520,51 |
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Pollution for Sale: Emissions Trading and Joint Implementation
ISBN: 9781840640106 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emissions trading is a central feature of global efforts to control climate change. Its inclusion in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change represents a victory for advocates of market based instruments and builds upon 20 years of experience with trading schemes in the United States. However, the concept is controversial and attempts to introduce similar trading schemes in Europe have met with mixed results.
Emissions trading is a central feature of global efforts to control climate change. Its inclusion in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on...
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719,52 |
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Trade and the Environment: Selected Essays of Alistair M.Ulph
ISBN: 9781840640847 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays addresses the concern that globalization and trade may have a detrimental effect on the environment. Alistair Ulph argues that environmental policies to secure strategic trade advantages may not be weak policies.
This collection of essays addresses the concern that globalization and trade may have a detrimental effect on the environment. Alistair Ulph argues th...
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602,15 |
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Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy: The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9781858980560 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzes the environmental disruption caused by the Soviet economic system. Using Soviet data, the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the environment, and that measures to protect it have been largely ineffective. Two specific problems are discussed: the ineffectiveness of measures to protect the environment and the general mismanagement of natural resource extraction. The former Soviet Union is viewed as a shortage economy with environmental problems as part of its general functioning.
Analyzes the environmental disruption caused by the Soviet economic system. Using Soviet data, the author shows that considerable damage has been done...
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510,30 |
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The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2000/2001: A Survey of Current Issues
ISBN: 9781840643701 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This annual publication provides a survey of economics in the years leading up to 2000 and 2001. It includes contributions on: economics and the land use-environment link; issues in the economics of water use; the economics of residential solid waste management; population and the environment; subsidiarity, federalism and the environment; transboundary pollution and international co-operation; and environmental valuation and standard economic policy.
This annual publication provides a survey of economics in the years leading up to 2000 and 2001. It includes contributions on: economics and the land ...
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214,07 |
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The Economics of National Hazards
ISBN: 9781840648157 / Angielski / Twarda / 1040 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this two-volume set the editors have brought together some of the most significant previously published papers by leading academics in this field. The Economics of Natural Hazards investigates the impact of natural disasters on national and regional economies. Volume I considers the effects both of the perception of risk and of direct losses and explores the costs of reducing the impact of disasters by, for example, forecasting, self-protection and the building of physical structures. Volume II deals with mitigating the costs of disaster through insurance, including financial coverage for...
In this two-volume set the editors have brought together some of the most significant previously published papers by leading academics in this field. ...
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2429,03 |
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Ecological and Environmental Economics: Selected Issues and Policy Responses
ISBN: 9781843760214 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of Clem Tisdell's articles is a readable and comprehensive economic analysis of important contemporary issues involving ecological and environmental economics. Coverage includes the role of ecological economics in the modern world; welfare and ethical considerations in environmental economics; sustainability concerns; the potential role of local communities in conservation; environmental aspects of population growth; and the relevance of carrying capacity concepts. The value for environmental management of different types of governance and of alternative economic policy...
This collection of Clem Tisdell's articles is a readable and comprehensive economic analysis of important contemporary issues involving ecological and...
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688,91 |
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The Economics of Biological Invasions
ISBN: 9781840643787 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biological invasions - the introduction of living organisms beyond their original range - are one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. This text represents an effort to understand the economic causes and consequences of biological invasions. It discusses the theoretical and methodological issues raised by invasion, including control strategies, modelling options, and a study of the economic, institutional and policy conditions that predispose countries to biological invasions. Also included are case studies of fisheries, agricultural systems, tropical forests and protected areas affected...
Biological invasions - the introduction of living organisms beyond their original range - are one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. This text ...
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597,05 |
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Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Private and Public Decision Making
ISBN: 9781848444522 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economics and the Future tackles the discounting issue from a number of angles, ranging from relatively short-term private financial decisions, to very long-term public issues spanning generations. The authors present differing perspectives and original ideas in a style that remains accessible while addressing some of the more difficult questions about discounting in theory and practice. It reveals that the economic issues regarding time are embedded in a broader social, ethical and philosophical context.
Economics and the Future tackles the discounting issue from a number of angles, ranging from relatively short-term private financial decisions, to ver...
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214,07 |
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The Market and the Environment: The Effectiveness of Market-Based Policy Instruments for Environmental Reform
ISBN: 9781858989068 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on the environmental effects and effectiveness of market- based policy instruments, especially taxes, at improving the environment.
Focuses on the environmental effects and effectiveness of market- based policy instruments, especially taxes, at improving the environment.
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836,89 |
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Environmental Regulation and Market Power: Competition, Time Consistency and International Trade
ISBN: 9781858988894 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental problems at the national and international level. This text uses research in order to appraise their efficiency in varying market conditions.
Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental prob...
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597,05 |
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The Environment in Corporate Management: New Directions and Economic Insights
ISBN: 9781843764533 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Posing the important question of how environmental management may benefit firms, this book adopts a neutral stance towards the issue of the extent to which environmental issues should, or should not, be addressed within the context of the management of business corporations. standards, using the tools of microeconomic and industrial organization analysis to provide an ordered and consistent picture. The analysis is couched within stakeholder theory, which determines how costs and benefits are defined for the firm. Utilizing the most recent information, the book also focuses on the underlying...
Posing the important question of how environmental management may benefit firms, this book adopts a neutral stance towards the issue of the extent to ...
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293,17 |
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The Crisis of Innovation in Water and Wastewater
ISBN: 9781843766261 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas and Ford see big trouble brewing for water and sanitation systems both in the technologically developed world and in developing countries. They argue that technological innovation that could help provide sustainable water systems in the UK and elsewhere is being overlooked in the face of global trends to privatize and regulate water activiti
Thomas and Ford see big trouble brewing for water and sanitation systems both in the technologically developed world and in developing countries. They...
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653,18 |
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The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics: A Survey of Current Issues: 2004/2005
ISBN: 9781843766810 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major annual publication is an authoritative up-to-date survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by two of the leading academics in the field.
This major annual publication is an authoritative up-to-date survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by two of the le...
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862,41 |
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The Institutional Economics of Water: A Cross-Country Analysis of Institutions and Performance
ISBN: 9781843767770 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This outstanding new book provides the most detailed and comprehensive evaluation of water reform and water sector performance from the perspectives of institutional economics and political economy. Skilfully integrating institutional theory with resource economics, and set against an exhaustive review of the theoretical and empirical literature, the authors develop an alternative methodology to quantitatively assess the performance of institutions in the context of water. This methodology is built on the principle of 'institutional ecology', the 'institutional decomposition and analysis'...
This outstanding new book provides the most detailed and comprehensive evaluation of water reform and water sector performance from the perspectives o...
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683,80 |
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The Economics of Technology Diffusion and Energy Efficiency
ISBN: 9781843768234 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not invest in best-practice technologies. The author offers important new explanations for this energy-efficiency paradox.
Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic gr...
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571,54 |
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The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon: Dispelling the Myths
ISBN: 9781843768791 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the 'perceived wisdom'. He skillfully dissects various models of deforestation and provides hard evidence on what is myth and what is reality. The book begins by challenging a hypothesis used by many scholars to explain deforestation. The 'turnover hypothesis' states that small farmers 'cause' deforestation by...
This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing charact...
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566,43 |
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