Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Equity and Vulnerability in a Warming World
ISBN: 9780821378878 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It already threatens the livelihoods, health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, and of the poorest and most vulnerable groups in particular. And it has potentially far-reaching implications...
Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty r...
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181,82 zł |
Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency
ISBN: 9780821378595 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A Development Emergency', the title of this year s 'Global Monitoring Report', the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor countries are especially vulnerable, as they have the least cushion to withstand events. The crisis, coming on the heels of the food and fuel crises, poses serious threats to their hard-won gains in boosting economic growth and reducing poverty. It is pushing millions back into poverty and putting at risk...
'A Development Emergency', the title of this year s 'Global Monitoring Report', the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global econo...
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137,60 zł |
Environmental and Natural Resources Economics: Theory, Policy, and the Sustainable Society, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780765614728 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of "Environmental and Natural Resources Economics" provides an accessible yet rigorous treatment of the subject, including the economics of sustainability. The new edition has been updated extensively throughout. A new chapter has been added on fisheries economics and policy, and the chapter on global climate change has been substantially rewritten to incorporate new scientific information and evolving public policy. Many new figures and tables have been added, and the glossary has also been expanded. Readers will appreciate the balanced and accessible coverage, and the...
This new edition of "Environmental and Natural Resources Economics" provides an accessible yet rigorous treatment of the subject, including the econom...
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906,73 zł |
Climate and Agriculture: An Ecological Survey
ISBN: 9780202362496 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This summary of what is known about microclimatic environments and the eff ects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the complex relationship between climate and agriculture. Th e author covers the theory and data of modern physical geography, meteorology, and agronomy within the context of contemporary ecological analysis to produce a book invaluable not only to the student and research worker but also one that deals for the fi rst time with the application of theory to real problems of energy budgets and water balance for the practical agronomist.
This summary of what is known about microclimatic environments and the eff ects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the c...
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221,59 zł |
The Economic Background to Agricultural Policy
ISBN: 9781107622111 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1960, this book presents a rigorous account of agricultural policies and the factors influencing their development. The text was created to provide assistance to students of agriculture, practitioners in farming and others interested in agricultural planning. The main focus is on the United Kingdom, but examples are drawn from other countries when a different context is required. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in agricultural policy, economics and agricultural history.
Originally published in 1960, this book presents a rigorous account of agricultural policies and the factors influencing their development. The text w...
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125,88 zł |
Security and Environmental Change
ISBN: 9780745642918 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers an account of the challenges we face in responding to security and environmental change. This work argues that to understand climate change and the dislocations of global ecology, it is necessary to look back at how ecological change is tied to the expansion of the world economic system over the last few centuries.
Offers an account of the challenges we face in responding to security and environmental change. This work argues that to understand climate change and...
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265,13 zł |
Co2 Emissions Trading Put to Test: Design Problems of the EU Proposal for an Emissions Trading System in Europe
ISBN: 9783825866549 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The European Union introduced a proposal in October 2001 to implement a new instrument intended to facilitate the Kyoto Protocol. The proposal called for a legally binding emissions trading system applied to selected installations at the start of 2005. This analysis shows that the EU proposal is conceptually weak, uncoordinated with the Kyoto protocol, and has negative economic as well as ecologic effects.
Wolfgang Strbele is professor of economics at the University of Mnster, Germany. Bernhard Hillebrand, Alexander Smajgl, Jean-Marc Behringer, Bernd Heins, and Eric Christian Meyer are... The European Union introduced a proposal in October 2001 to implement a new instrument intended to facilitate the Kyoto Protocol. The proposal called ...
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106,00 zł |
The Social Economy: International Perspectives on Economic Solidarity
ISBN: 9781848132818 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the current economic crisis spreads around the globe questions are being asked about what king of capitalist or post-capitalist economy will follow. There is increasing talk of the need for stringent economic regulation, the need to temper greed and individualism, to make the economy work for human and social development. The search is on for a kinder, greener, less unequal and more redistributive economy.
This transitional moment, with its pointed questions about the economy to come, provides an opportunity to assess the role and potential of the 'social economy', that is, economic... As the current economic crisis spreads around the globe questions are being asked about what king of capitalist or post-capitalist economy will follow...
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428,18 zł |
Hydrogen Energy: Economic and Social Challenges
ISBN: 9781844076802 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hydrogen could be a significant fuel of the future, with the potential to make a major contribution to the resolution of pressing social and environmental problems such as carbon emissions, energy security and local air pollution. This book, based on four years of detailed research, subjects the promise and potential of hydrogen to searching, in-depth socio-economic analysis. It discusses the different technologies for the production, distribution, storage and use of hydrogen, and analyzes the economics of these technologies and their current market prospects. It also describes... Hydrogen could be a significant fuel of the future, with the potential to make a major contribution to the resolution of pressing social and enviro... |
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Environmental and Economic Sustainability
ISBN: 9781420059489 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on more than 15 years of research and practice, "Environmental and Economic Sustainability" introduces the environmental and economic sustainability assessment (EESA), a new way to make decisions that meets the challenges of the 21st century.
Based on more than 15 years of research and practice, "Environmental and Economic Sustainability" introduces the environmental and economic sustainabi...
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Business Ecology: Why Most Green Business Practices Don't Work... and What to Do about It
ISBN: 9780764333026 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Companies around the world are embracing the need to become more ecologically sustainable. Yet, many of today's green business practices fail to result in companies that are truly green. In order to become sustainable, businesses need a fundamentally different approach to greening. Find it here. Building on its predecessor book, Green Business, the author suggests ways to achieve true ecological sustainability with a new paradigm for green business grounded science. She indicates that business exists in an ecological context and that ecological sustainability can occur when ecology and other...
Companies around the world are embracing the need to become more ecologically sustainable. Yet, many of today's green business practices fail to resul...
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115,80 zł |
Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political Economy
ISBN: 9781608460250 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist point of view, and shows how Marxist political economy can make a substantial contribution to ecological economics. The analysis is developed in terms of four basic issues: (1) nature and economic value; (2) the treatment of nature as capital; (3) the significance of the entropy law for economic systems; (4) the concept of sustainable development. In each case, it is shown that Marxism can help ecological economics fulfill its commitments to multi-disciplinarity, methodological pluralism, and... This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist point of view, and shows how Marxist political economy can... |
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Who Owns the World: The Surprising Truth about Every Piece of Land on the Planet
ISBN: 9780446581219 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever. Now you can IM someone in Alaska, purchase coffee beans from Timor-Leste, and visit Dubai. But what do we really know about these lands?
WHO OWNS THE WORLD presents the results of the first-ever landownership survey of all 197 states and 66 territories of the world, and reveals facts both startling and eye-opening. You'll learn that: --Only 15% of the world's population lays claim to landownership,... You don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our plane...
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102,92 zł |
At the End of the Rainbow?: Gold, Land, and People in the Brazilian Amazon
ISBN: 9780231103541 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched...
Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazo...
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466,36 zł |
NAFTA and Climate Change
ISBN: 9780881324365 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NAFTA remains a centerpiece of US trade-policy debate, but its provisions have sacrificed environmental concerns for the sake of trade liberalization. This timely volume analyzes the national policies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The authors explain how the competing priorities of province, state, or government agendas can slow coordination measures to curtail emissions throughout North America. But, North American cooperation could serve as a model for how developed and developing countries can mutually benefit from an international climate change agreement. Emission reduction...
NAFTA remains a centerpiece of US trade-policy debate, but its provisions have sacrificed environmental concerns for the sake of trade liberalization....
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100,70 zł |
Elephant Management: A Scientific Assessment for South Africa
ISBN: 9781868144792 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elephants are among the most magnificent-but also most problematic-members of South Africas wildlife population. While they are sought after by South African and foreign tourists alike, they also have a major impact on their environment. As a result, elephant management has become a highly complex and often controversial discipline. Elephant Management is the first book of its kind, combining the work of more than 60 national and international experts. Extensively reviewed by policy-makers and other stakeholders, it is the most systematic and comprehensive review of savanna... Elephants are among the most magnificent-but also most problematic-members of South Africas wildlife population. While they are sought after by So... |
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181,35 zł |
Energy, Environment and Development
ISBN: 9781844077489 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title provides a full overview of concepts of energy and of development, and describes energy-related problems of environmental degradation. An analysis is presented of local, regional and environmental impacts.
This title provides a full overview of concepts of energy and of development, and describes energy-related problems of environmental degradation. An a...
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906,73 zł |
Resource and Environmental Economics: Modern Issues and Applications
ISBN: 9789812833945 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deals with the useful principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources.
Deals with the useful principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and...
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478,55 zł |
Energy, Resources, and the Long-Term Future
ISBN: 9789812707642 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world is rapidly approaching the end of the fossil fuel era. This book reviews the historical background for this crisis and provides a comprehensive discussion of its important aspects. It contrasts the Utopian writings of Condorcet, Godwin and Adam Smith, with the more pessimistic views of Malthus and Ricardo.
The world is rapidly approaching the end of the fossil fuel era. This book reviews the historical background for this crisis and provides a comprehens...
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523,89 zł |
The Economics and Politics of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780199573288 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end. Though there has been much enthusiasm from political and environmental groups, the underlying economics and politics remain highly controversial. This book takes a cool headed look at the critical roadblocks to agreement, examining the economics of climate change, the incentives of the main players (the US, EU, China) and examines the policies governments can put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and ultimately shift our economies onto a low-carbon... The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end. Though there has b... |
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402,40 zł |