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Resource Economics
ISBN: 9780521874953 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation problems (Chapter 2), and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, and stock pollutants (Chapters 3-6). Chapter 7 examines the maximin utility criterion when the utility of a generation depends on consumption of a manufactured good, harvest from a renewable resource, and extraction from a...
Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet softwar...
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Intertemporal Resource Economics: An Introduction to the Overlapping Generations Approach
ISBN: 9783642132285 / Angielski / Twarda / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents both a textbook and a monograph. Part I entitled Basics mainly contains textbook material and this is also partly true for Part II. Here the precise de nition and characterization of the not so well-known notion of interg- erational ef ciency within Diamond s two-period overlapping generations model gures prominently. In Part III, a renewable natural resource is introduced in the log-linear Cobb-Douglas overlapping generations model, and the ef ciency c- cepts developed in Part II are applied. The balance among material for a textbook und for a monograph is approximately...
This book represents both a textbook and a monograph. Part I entitled Basics mainly contains textbook material and this is also partly true for Part I...
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Energy Economics: Co2 Emissions in China
ISBN: 9783642138461 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Energy Economics: CO2 Emissions in China" presents a collection of the researches on China's CO2 emissions as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEP). Based on the analysis of factors related to global climate change and CO2 emissions, it discusses China's CO2 emissions originating from various sectors, diverse impact factors, as well as proposed policies for reducing carbon emissions. Featuring empirical research and policy analysis on focused and critical issues involving different stages of CO2...
"Energy Economics: CO2 Emissions in China" presents a collection of the researches on China's CO2 emissions as studied by the Ce...
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602,40 |
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Security and Environmental Sustainability of Multimodal Transport
ISBN: 9789048185610 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the result of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop which was held at Imperial College London in January 2009. It features contributions from a range of international experts covering topics related to the transport of hazardous materials, such as routeing and scheduling, risk assessment, security, and social and environmental exposure. There is also a broad look at the implications of climate change for transport. This unique resource offers a deep understanding of hazardous material transportation and concomitant security and environmental problems. The risks involved in the...
This book is the result of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop which was held at Imperial College London in January 2009. It features contributions from...
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1124,51 |
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Smart Solutions to Climate Change
ISBN: 9780521763424 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Watch Bjorn Lomborg on how Al Gore "oversold the message" on climate change and how we should be spending more on alternative energy research: The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policy makers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and black carbon', expanding forest, research and...
Watch Bjorn Lomborg on how Al Gore "oversold the message" on climate change and how we should be spending more on alternative energy research: The fai...
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276,15 |
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Universities and Climate Change: Introducing Climate Change to University Programmes
ISBN: 9783642107504 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is a matter of global concern and specific sectors of society such as universities need to engage and be active in the search for regional and local solutions for what is a global problem. Despite the fact that many universities all around the world are undertaking remarkable efforts in tackling the challenges posed by climate change, few of such works are widely documented and disseminated. The book "Universities and Climate Change" addresses this gap. The book pursues three aims. Firstly, it presents a review of the approaches and methods to inform, communicate and educate...
Climate change is a matter of global concern and specific sectors of society such as universities need to engage and be active in the search for regio...
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602,40 |
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Understanding and Measuring Social Capital : A Multi-Disciplinary Tool for Practitioners
ISBN: 9780821350683 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The importance of social capital for sustainable development is well understood. However, the impact of social capital is not easily quantified and to overcome this, the Social Capital Initiative at the World Bank attempts to contribute to this understanding by concentrating on how to measure social capital and its impact. This book details both the quantitative and qualitative approaches to the analysis of social capital. Also included is the Social Capital Assessment Tool which combines quantitative and qualitative instruments in order to measure social capital at the household, community,...
The importance of social capital for sustainable development is well understood. However, the impact of social capital is not easily quantified and to...
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120,65 |
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The Cost of Being Landlocked: Logistics Costs and Supply Chain Reliability
ISBN: 9780821384084 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Cost of Being Landlocked' proposes a new analytical framework to interpret and model the constraints faced by logistics chains on international trade corridors. The plight of landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) has naturally received special attention for decades, leading to a specific set of development priorities based upon the concept of dependence on the transit state. Therefore, the standard approach used to tackle the cost of being landlocked has been predominantly aimed at developing regional transport infrastructure and ensuring freedom of transit through regional...
'The Cost of Being Landlocked' proposes a new analytical framework to interpret and model the constraints faced by logistics chains on international t...
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101,34 |
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Security and Environmental Sustainability of Multimodal Transport
ISBN: 9789048185627 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the result of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop which was held at Imperial College London in January 2009. It features contributions from a range of international experts covering topics related to the transport of hazardous materials, such as routeing and scheduling, risk assessment, security, and social and environmental exposure. There is also a broad look at the implications of climate change for transport. This unique resource offers a deep understanding of hazardous material transportation and concomitant security and environmental problems. The risks involved in the... This book is the result of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop which was held at Imperial College London in January 2009. It features contributions f... |
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1124,51 |
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The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change
ISBN: 9783642147753 / Angielski / Twarda / 875 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique feature of this book is its strong practice-oriented nature: it contains a wide range of papers dealing with the social, economic and political aspects of climate change, exemplifying the diversity of approaches to climate change management taking place all over the world, in a way never seen before. In addition, the book describes a number of projects and other initiatives happening in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin American and the Australasian region, providing a profile of the diversity of works taking place today.
A unique feature of this book is its strong practice-oriented nature: it contains a wide range of papers dealing with the social, economic and politic...
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803,21 |
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Transforming Water Management in South Africa: Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework
ISBN: 9789048193660 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, the introduction of the protection of environmental flows, and major shifts in charging for water use and in the provision of free basic water. Over ten years of implementation of these policy and...
One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultat...
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Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist: How a CEO Doubled Earnings, Inspired Employees and Created Innovation from One Simple Idea
ISBN: 9780312544553 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Inspirational . . . Essential reading for anyone, whether lay, student, or practitioner, interested in business success today and in the environment."--Library Journal (starred review) In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. In this remarkable book, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of us to share that goal. The Interface story is a compelling one. Fifteen years after Anderson's initiative, Interface... "Inspirational . . . Essential reading for anyone, whether lay, student, or practitioner, interested in business success today and in the environme... |
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The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America
ISBN: 9780271035826 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present debate raging over global warming exemplifies the clash between two competing public theologies. On one side, environmentalists warn of certain catastrophe if we do not take steps now to reduce the release of greenhouse gases; on the other side, economists are concerned with whether the benefits of actions to prevent higher temperatures will be worth the high costs. Questions of the true and proper relationship of human beings and nature are as old as religion. Today, environmentalists regard human actions to warm the climate as an immoral challenge to the natural order, while... The present debate raging over global warming exemplifies the clash between two competing public theologies. On one side, environmentalists warn of... |
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Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis
ISBN: 9780765627957 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions.
This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity pro...
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869,02 |
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Research Tools in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
ISBN: 9789814289221 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of scholarly accounts and articles written by recognized experts in environmental economics, this book is the first of its kind and as a valuable reference and textual source for graduate students and active researchers. It draws together the pedagogical discussion of the key tools used to conduct theoretical and empirical research in natural resource and environmental economics. Contributed by prominent international researchers like Parkash Cander, Henri Tulkens and Robert Ayres, the book will be useful for researchers who wish to learn new techniques or change area of research...
A collection of scholarly accounts and articles written by recognized experts in environmental economics, this book is the first of its kind and as a ...
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724,19 |
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Environmental Economics
ISBN: 9781107002142 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year.
This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year.
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555,16 |
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Ecological Economics of the Oceans and Coasts
ISBN: 9781845423193 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are, and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly being recognized, as critical limits to the economic exploitation of our oceans and coasts are reached. The authors argue that ecological economics is in a unique position to address this problem given its particular focus on interconnected ecological and economic systems.
This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are, and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly being recognized,...
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Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
ISBN: 9783642055010 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book reflects the work in progress regarding the analysis of the costs of crop genetic resources conservation that has been conducted at various research insti- tutes over the last couple of years, including research conducted at ZEF and asso- ciated institutes. In addition, contributions in this publication were presented at a special session during the "Global Dialogue: The Role of the Village in the 2]'1 Century: Crops, Jobs and Livelihood" in Hannover, Germany, at the World Exposition in Au- gust 2000. The purpose of the publication is to make a general contribution to the ongoing...
The book reflects the work in progress regarding the analysis of the costs of crop genetic resources conservation that has been conducted at various r...
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401,58 |
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Towards Environmental Innovation Systems
ISBN: 9783642061004 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a dialog among worldwide experts across disciplines concerning theoretical frameworks and practical experiences to guide research and policy "towards environmental innovation systems." The contributors explore new directions of research at the border of two research traditions: systems of innovation and environmental innovations. The text examines the four main components of environmental innovation systems: conceptual foundations, empirical experiences, strategic approaches, and experiences with policy instruments. Here is a dialog among worldwide experts across disciplines concerning theoretical frameworks and practical experiences to guide research and polic... |
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Decentralised Power Generation in the Liberalised Eu Energy Markets: Results from the Decent Research Project
ISBN: 9783642072697 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the coming 20 years, decentralised generation (DG) is expected to play an in- creasingly important role in the European electricity infrastructure and market. DG can be defined as small-scale generation connected to the distribution network or on the customer side of the meter. The application of DG is often highly loca- tion specific and depends on such diverse issues as the possibilities of technical implementation, resource availability, environmental aspects, social embedding of the project, regulation and market conditions. These factors vary considerably among technologies and among...
In the coming 20 years, decentralised generation (DG) is expected to play an in- creasingly important role in the European electricity infrastructure ...
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