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The International Political Economy of Natural Resources: Vol 1
ISBN: 9781852786021 / Angielski / Twarda / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the Library of International Political Economy series, this text examines natural resources. Amongst the areas covered are: foreign investors and host investment states; resource scarcity, conflict and cooperation; and resource degradation, conflict and cooperation.
Part of the Library of International Political Economy series, this text examines natural resources. Amongst the areas covered are: foreign investors ...
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2235,11 |
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The Economics of the Environment
ISBN: 9781858980027 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work deals with the economics of the environment. Topics covered include the theory of environmental regulation; the design and implementation of environmental policy; the measurement of the costs and benefits of environmental amenities; enforcement of policies; and conservation.
This work deals with the economics of the environment. Topics covered include the theory of environmental regulation; the design and implementation of...
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277,86 |
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Environmental Accounting in Action: Case Studies from Southern Africa
ISBN: 9781843760764 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental accounts bring together economic and environmental information in a common framework to measure the contribution of the environment to the economy and the impact of the economy on the environment. They enable governments to set priorities, monitor economic policies more precisely, enact more effective environmental regulations and resource management strategies, and design more efficient market instruments for environmental policies. Many industrialized countries compile environmental accounts, but progress in developing countries has been limited - even though the need for...
Environmental accounts bring together economic and environmental information in a common framework to measure the contribution of the environment to t...
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566,43 |
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Joint Prod & Ecological ECS
ISBN: 9781840648720 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores how environmental problems emerge from economic activity and how they may be addressed in a responsible and sustainable manner. At its centre is the concept of joint production, whereby human action always entails unintended consequences.
This volume explores how environmental problems emerge from economic activity and how they may be addressed in a responsible and sustainable manner. A...
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688,91 |
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The Property Tax, Land Use and Land Use Regulation
ISBN: 9781843763284 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text brings together essays by scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute for land use regulation and other policies designed to affect how land is utilized. Like many economists, the contributors see some type of property taxation as the more efficient means of helping to shape land use. Some of the essays analyze a conventional property tax, while others consider radically different systems of property taxation. context of a dynamic model of real estate markets. The remaining papers examine how various...
This text brings together essays by scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a parti...
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678,70 |
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The Theory and Practice of Environmental and Resource Economics: Essays in Honour of Karl-Gustaf Lofgren
ISBN: 9781845426491 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of specially commissioned papers pays tribute to Karl-Gustaf Lofgren's significant and diverse contribution to theoretical and empirical research within the field of environmental and resource economics over the past two decades. A number of distinguished scholars examine a broad range of topics including sustainability, risk and uncertainty, demand theory and issues related to public goods. The book also contains analyses of more specific resource problems concerning fisheries, forestry management, wildlife and pollution.
This collection of specially commissioned papers pays tribute to Karl-Gustaf Lofgren's significant and diverse contribution to theoretical and empiric...
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663,39 |
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The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making
ISBN: 9781848440470 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, but the book concentrates on the past 60 years. A key feature is a discussion of the difficulty that has generally been encountered in bringing the disciplines of economics and ecology into collaboration in the water resource context.
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, e...
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678,70 |
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The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics: A Survey of Current Issues: 1998-99
ISBN: 9781858988269 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a state-of-the-art survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by academics in the field. Concentrating on both macro- and microeconomic issues, this edition deals with environmental policy in economies in transition, green accounting, the economies of fisheries management, and environmental management and degredation.
This is a state-of-the-art survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by academics in the field. Concentrating on both m...
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796,07 |
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Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics: A Guide for Students and Decision-makers
ISBN: 9781858989440 / Angielski / Twarda / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with an introduction to the economic causes and consequences of environmental and resource problems, this revised and updated edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive, non-technical overview of the principles of environmental and resource economics,
Beginning with an introduction to the economic causes and consequences of environmental and resource problems, this revised and updated edition of a c...
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1061,42 |
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The Porter Hypothesis and the Economic Consequences of Environmental Regulation: A Neo-Schumpeterian Approach
ISBN: 9781843766445 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the public choice literature on political decision making with the Neo-Schumpeterian literature on innovation, this valuable new book develops a conceptual model of how environmental regulation is designed. The author presents a novel perspective on the Porter Hypothesis, arguing that the effect of environmental regulation is too weak to induce technological change. This implies that environmental policy intervention has little, if any, economic consequences which has significant repercussions for environmental decision-making. Since radical technological advance is unpredictable,...
Combining the public choice literature on political decision making with the Neo-Schumpeterian literature on innovation, this valuable new book develo...
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663,39 |
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Land and Forest Economics
ISBN: 9781843768814 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the important issues of land use and forest economics. The authors employ economic tools to study the allocation of land among alternative activities such as agriculture, grazing and forestry which impact upon the landscape. The book begins by explaining general economic concepts of well-being, welfare measurement and economic rents before providing a synopsis of various environmental economic issues including non-market valuation, cost-benefit analysis and sustainable development. The authors then move on to address several critical topics...
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the important issues of land use and forest economics. The authors employ economic tools to study t...
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862,41 |
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Planning Models
ISBN: 9781845420222 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While planning involves seeking ways of influencing future behavior, it is important to have at the outset an abstraction of the world upon which to base an assessment of outcomes. The papers in this collection represent some of the major works in the field of planning models, with land use planning as a core theme. The collection is divided into several parts: Part 1 focuses on location models and embraces a series of classic survey papers as well as a number of more specific contributions covering such topics as the distribution of residential activities. This is followed in part 2 by...
While planning involves seeking ways of influencing future behavior, it is important to have at the outset an abstraction of the world upon which to b...
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1367,60 |
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Time Strategies, Innovation and Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9781845420901 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first attempt to systematically introduce the aspect of time into economic and environmental innovation policy. The authors demonstrate how 'windows of opportunity' for technological innovations emerge and also explain how they can be identified and effectively exploited. Technological innovations are widely considered as an opportunity to realise a double dividend - protect the environment and increase profits by introducing a more sustainable technology. However, intervention by the state is often needed to overcome the competitive disadvantage caused by externalities, path...
This book is the first attempt to systematically introduce the aspect of time into economic and environmental innovation policy. The authors demonstra...
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688,91 |
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Managing Wetlands: An Ecological Economics Approach
ISBN: 9781845422004 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extensive destruction of wetlands across Europe represents a significant loss of biodiversity along with its related economic, cultural, ethical and scientific benefits. This volume addresses the critical issues surrounding this environmental change process, employing a range of analytical methods drawn from a variety of disciplines which bridge the social and natural science divide. The authors begin by exploring the various methodological approaches to the analysis of the causes and consequences of wetland loss in Europe. The findings reveal that a formal decision-support process can be...
The extensive destruction of wetlands across Europe represents a significant loss of biodiversity along with its related economic, cultural, ethical a...
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293,17 |
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Trade and Environment: Theory and Policy in the Context of EU Enlargement and Economic Transition
ISBN: 9781845421649 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The debate about how best to manage the interplay between trade, industrialization and the impacts of both on the global environment continues to rage, particularly in the context of the introduction and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. This book deals with a number of important issues surrounding the debate about trade and the environment, but places particular emphasis on the process of EU enlargement. The first two chapters, by prominent American scholars, present the case for and against the Kyoto protocol. The authors go on to review the broader trade - environment debate by...
The debate about how best to manage the interplay between trade, industrialization and the impacts of both on the global environment continues to rage...
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663,39 |
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Networks and Institutions in Natural Resource Management
ISBN: 9781845422943 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing natural resources sustainably is a complex task that demands the involvement of many different stakeholders. Network arrangements are increasingly used to try and achieve such sustainable management. This book assesses the practice of such networks using original research into case studies of landscape, habitat and water management from England, Norway, Sweden, Spain and Zimbabwe.
Managing natural resources sustainably is a complex task that demands the involvement of many different stakeholders. Network arrangements are increas...
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546,02 |
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Rethinking Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9781845422103 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Voluntary approaches, such as corporate codes of conduct, have been widely advocated as alternatives to traditional approaches to environmental regulation. Yet concern remains that companies cannot be trusted to police themselves and that many of the putative advantages of self-regulation, such as reduced cost and increased flexibility, have not been realised in practice. The book systematically analyses three initiatives (environmental management systems, the Australian Greenhouse Challenge and the Australian mining industry's Code for Environmental Management) and their contribution to...
Voluntary approaches, such as corporate codes of conduct, have been widely advocated as alternatives to traditional approaches to environmental regula...
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520,51 |
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Greening the Budget: Bugetary Policies for Environmental Improvement
ISBN: 9781840647532 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Greening the Budget" regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the environment and explores the scope for greening both revenue and expenditure through specific measures. The authors begin by considering the effects of removing environmentally damaging subsidies and the potential for correcting the market failure by way of appropriate pricing. They go on to examine the...
"Greening the Budget" regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as a...
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663,39 |
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Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application
ISBN: 9781843768883 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research on the cutting-edge of economics, ecology, and ethics is presented in this timely study. Building from a theoretical critique of the tradition of cost-benefit analysis, the contributors lay the foundation for a macroeconomics of environmental sustainability and distributive justice. Attention is then turned to three of the most critical areas of social and environmental applied research - biodiversity, climate change, and energy.
Research on the cutting-edge of economics, ecology, and ethics is presented in this timely study. Building from a theoretical critique of the traditio...
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688,91 |
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Ecology, Law and Economics: The Simple Analytics of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780761808640 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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334,50 |
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