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Risk Habitat Megacity
ISBN: 9783642115431 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is most advanced, this book studies the complexity of a mega-urban system and explores interrelations between sectors and issues.
Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusi...
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603,81 |
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Emissions Trading: Institutional Design, Decision Making and Corporate Strategies
ISBN: 9783642205910 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributions in this book discuss the theoretical implications of different institutional designs of emissions trading schemes, review schemes that have been implemented in the US and Europe, and evaluate a range of investment decisions and strategies.
The contributions in this book discuss the theoretical implications of different institutional designs of emissions trading schemes, review schemes th...
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402,53 |
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Low-Carbon Economics: Theory and Application
ISBN: 9789814383097 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Suitable for researchers and government officers on policy design and low-carbon city planning, this title provides a theoretical analysis for the issues of climate change, carbon emission mitigation, energy-saving and low-carbon development.
Suitable for researchers and government officers on policy design and low-carbon city planning, this title provides a theoretical analysis for the iss...
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734,66 |
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Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), The: An Early History of Unanticipated Outcomes
ISBN: 9789814401098 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, countries took up the difficult task of finding a common approach that would slow down the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and delay changes to the planet's climate. This title provides the economic assessment of certain Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
Following the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, countries took up the difficult task of finding a common approach that would slow down the build...
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465,29 |
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Industrielle Stoffkreislaufwirtschaft Im Regionalen Kontext: Betriebswirtschaftlich-Ökologische Und Geographische Betrachtungen in Theorie Und Praxis
ISBN: 9783642628795 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 503 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beim Ubergang von der Stoffdurchflusswirtschaft zur Stoffkreislaufwirtschaft geht es zunachst einmal um die Entwicklung geeigneter Modellansatze, die diesen Prozess unterstutzen konnen. Hier konzentriert sich der Autor auf die Ausgestaltung einer industriellen Reproduktionswirtschaft, die sodann mit raumlichen Aspekten in Verbindung gebracht wird. Dass gerade Industrieregionen hier uber ein ausserordentlich grosses Potenzial verfugen, wird nicht nur an Beispielen sogenannter Eco-Industrial Parks belegt, sondern auch anhand eigener Ergebnisse, die der Autor beim Aufbau zwischenbetrieblicher...
Beim Ubergang von der Stoffdurchflusswirtschaft zur Stoffkreislaufwirtschaft geht es zunachst einmal um die Entwicklung geeigneter Modellansatze, die ...
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338,56 |
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Dynamic and Stochastic Resource Economics: Essays on Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Joint Systems, and Regulation
ISBN: 9789814472821 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title is a collection of Professor Batabyal's previously published and unpublished papers on the subject of natural resource and environmental economics. The book demonstrates how new dynamic and probabilistic techniques can be profitably used to study a whole host of research questions in natural resource management, biological diversity, ecological economics, invasive species management, and environmental regulation.
This title is a collection of Professor Batabyal's previously published and unpublished papers on the subject of natural resource and environmental ec...
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538,76 |
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Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 9789400736207 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the environmental impact of relationships between business organisations, an area where the boundary separating internal and external accounting is ill-defined. Here, contributors advocate what they term accounting for cooperation as a more environmentally positive complement to the paradigmatic practice of accounting for competition ."
This volume s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the...
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805,10 |
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Multifunctional Rural Land Management: Economics and Policies
ISBN: 9780415849647 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides insights into viable strategies of sustainable management practices allowing multiple functions sustained by agriculture and natural resources in rural areas.
This volume provides insights into viable strategies of sustainable management practices allowing multiple functions sustained by agriculture and natu...
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225,25 |
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Is the Planet Full?
ISBN: 9780198784876 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century?
While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a healthier, wealthier and larger population? May more people mean more scientists to discover how our world works, more inventors and thinkers to help solve the world's problems, more skilled people to... What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by th...
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143,14 |
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Handbook of Forest Resource Economics
ISBN: 9780415623247 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil erosion and controlling water supplies, as well as providing non-timber forest products and supporting the livelihoods of many local people. This handbook provides a detailed, comprehensive and broad coverage of forest economics, including traditional forest economics of timber production,... It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem servic... |
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1185,77 |
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Wege Zu Einem Nachhaltigen Umgang Mit Süßwasser: Jahresgutachten 1997
ISBN: 9783642720086 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die globale Susswasserkrise wird sich zukunftig weiter verscharfen. Neueste Analysen des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveranderungen (WBGU) zeigen nicht nur die heutigen Brennpunkte, sondern auch die zukunftig fur Wasserkrisen besonders anfalligen Weltregionen auf. Zusatzlich werden drei eng mit der globalen Susswasserkrise in Verbindung stehende "Krankheitsbilder der Erde" untersucht. Aus dieser Zusammenschau leiten die Wissenschaftler in ihrem neuesten Jahresbericht Handlungsempfehlungen fur die Politik ab."
Die globale Susswasserkrise wird sich zukunftig weiter verscharfen. Neueste Analysen des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung Globale Umwelt...
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206,88 |
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China-Eu: Green Cooperation
ISBN: 9789814571128 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a selection of views from Chinese and European experts and scholars on the most pressing environmental challenges - air quality, global warming, climate change, energy security, urbanisation - faced by Europe and China in 2013. The contributors also discuss possibilities of technical cooperation between the two sides on remedies for the domestic scene as well as contributions to international negotiations. These problems top the agenda of the new leadership in China and also feature prominently on the EU-China agenda for EU's efforts to mitigate climate change.
This book offers a selection of views from Chinese and European experts and scholars on the most pressing environmental challenges - air quality, gl...
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465,29 |
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Elephants, Economics and Ivory
ISBN: 9780415847339 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for rejoicing, but nothing is quite so simple. The authors of this book have looked at the overall statistics, including those for countries where the elephant population is stable. They have considered the multiplicity of economic and social functions fulfilled by ensuring that elephant herds survive,...
Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economie...
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237,10 |
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Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects
ISBN: 9780415848381 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose a means of constructing useful economic evaluations of the impacts of development projects on the environments in which they are constructed. This study demands the systematic evaluation of all the intentional and unintentional consequences of development initiatives before they are determined...
It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify ...
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225,25 |
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Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415850872 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of 'structural adjustment programmes the economic reform policies required by the World Bank and IMF as part of their lending operations with borrowing countries. To widespread Critical acclaim it exposed the damaging environmental and social effects of structural adjustment policies, and called for a...
This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Researc...
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225,25 |
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Mountain Area Research and Management: Integrated Approaches
ISBN: 9781138002029 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together scientists and practitioners from five continents to present their experience in undertaking activities that contribute to our understanding and informed management of mountain areas. In particular, they address the challenges of working in interdisciplinary teams and of effectively involving stakeholders. The result is a powerful book that integrates research from different disciplines in the natural and social sciences, and in some cases indigenous knowledge, to address the question of how knowledge is gained about mountain areas and how can it be integrated and...
This book brings together scientists and practitioners from five continents to present their experience in undertaking activities that contribute to o...
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225,25 |
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Modelling Long-Term Scenarios for Low Carbon Societies
ISBN: 9781138002074 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, a special issue of 'Climate Policy' journal, examines different low carbon scenarios for different countries, modelled at different scales and typologies to combat the ever-increasing impacts of climate change. It also features economical and technological consequences involved.
This volume, a special issue of 'Climate Policy' journal, examines different low carbon scenarios for different countries, modelled at different scale...
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225,25 |
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Russia and the Arctic: Environment, Identity and Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781784536817 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world is currently witnessing an "Arctic Scramble" as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves, and its position at the top of the globe holds significant trading and military advantages. Yet the territorial boundaries of the region remain ill-defined and Russia, under the increasingly bold foreign policy of Vladimir Putin, has emerged as a forceful power in the region. Geir Honneland investigates the political contexts and international tensions surrounding Russia's actions, focusing especially on the...
The world is currently witnessing an "Arctic Scramble" as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to be...
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118,52 |
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The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis
ISBN: 9781138215092 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Putting a price tag on the environment is controversial. This book discusses ethical and political aspects of environmental cost-benefit analysis: why controversies must be expected, why they should be taken seriously, and how they can be handled in practice. Cost-benefit analysis is commonly thought of as a method for ranking projects according to their contributions to social welfare. The starting point of the present book is different. Rather than providing a final ranking, the purpose of a project analysis is to enable participants in a democratic decision-making process to... Putting a price tag on the environment is controversial. This book discusses ethical and political aspects of environmental cost-benefit analysis: ... |
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274,23 |
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Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity
ISBN: 9780231180849 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one central question has animated his research: "Can we save our environment and grow our economy?" This issue has become only more urgent in recent years with the threat of climate change, the accelerating loss of ecosystems, and the rapid industrialization of the developing world. Reflecting on a lifetime of experience not only as a leading voice in the field, but as a green entrepreneur, activist, and advisor to governments and global organizations, Heal clearly and passionately demonstrates that...
In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one central question has animated his research: "Can we s...
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154,67 |