Environmental economics

The contingent valuation of water is one of the key components when wanting to implement proposals for integrated water management in mountain basins.

Inspired by recent litigation, this book identifies and critically appraises the manifold and varied approaches to calculating compensation for damage caused to the environment.

Inspired by recent litigation, this book identifies and critically appraises the manifold and varied approaches to calculating compensation for damage caused to the environment.

This book examines China's resource endowment and the country's current exploitation and use of resources and analyzes the main challenges and potential opportunities facing the country.

This book examines China's resource endowment and the country's current exploitation and use of resources and analyzes the main challenges and potential opportunities facing the country.

In the light of the need for decisionmakers in developing countries to adopt a systematic and rational approach to water supply planning, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced treatment of water policy analysis and planning in the context of environmentally sustainable development.

This book examines changes in public-sector budgets resulting from the Water Pollution Control Act.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the advanced techniques in the valuation of wildland benefits.

This book is a collection of papers written for a workshop on the economic value of Alaskan wildlife resources held at Denali National Park in September 1989.

Originally published in 1988.

Originally published in 1988.

In the light of the need for decisionmakers in developing countries to adopt a systematic and rational approach to water supply planning, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced treatment of water policy analysis and planning in the context of environmentally sustainable development.

This book examines changes in public-sector budgets resulting from the Water Pollution Control Act.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the advanced techniques in the valuation of wildland benefits.

This book is a collection of papers written for a workshop on the economic value of Alaskan wildlife resources held at Denali National Park in September 1989.

Originally published in 1988.

Originally published in 1988.

This book includes insights on global warming and climate change, from a political, economic, scientific and engineering perspective.

During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies.

How will global warming affect developing countries, which rely heavily on agriculture as a source of economic growth?

New drilling techniques for oil and natural gas are propelling an energy production renaissance in the United States.

This study provides alternative estimates of the costs of greenhouse gas abatement through 2050 that would be necessary to limit CO2 atmospheric concentrations to approximately 450 parts per million and limiting warming to 2(deg)C.

In 2006, a team led by the English economist Sir Nicholas Stern issued a striking report that analyzed the economic dimensions of global climate change and called for immediate collective action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Packed with useful information, this is an essential resource for anyone thinking of setting up and running a community energy project.

This book provides a wider understanding of the geographies of the platform economy, focusing on the critical perspectives that have emerged on this new economic and digital context.

Financialization is a set of processes which has led to a financially driven and commodified economy with rising inequality, tax avoidance, and a lack of investment in the physical and social infrastructure.

Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change.

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch.

China's Unfinished Economic Revolution offers a fundamentally different interpretation of China's economic reform.

To whom do the Earth's riches belongall of mankind, the nations in which those riches are found, or individuals?

A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publicationFederal policies have made great progress protecting the environment.

The Kyoto Protocol represents nearly a decade of international effort to reduce carbon emissions.

A Brookings Institution Press and Chatham House publicationThe global climate change problem has finally entered the world's consciousness.

The UN's Net Zero goal is to limit the rise in mean global temperatures to 1.

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy AwardA portrait of a species on the brinkThe only bird species that lives exclusively in Florida, the Florida scrub-jay was once common across the peninsula.

With a view toward the heritage of North American Industry, A Bibliographic Guide to North American Industry: History, Health, and Hazardous Waste provides recommended readings in historical and contemporary literature related to the origins of specific industries, the health and safety issues they face, and how they manage waste and prevent pollution.

A Stanford University Press classic.

As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today.

The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups.

This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping our global economic and environmental systems-raising major issues of stability, governance, and sustainability.

Sustainability is increasingly important across functional sectors and scientific disciplines.

An exploration of the relationship between water's cultural meanings and urgent ecological issues.

Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities - including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers - played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Through a mixture of innovation and regulation, a future is being mapped out free of carbon and pollutants.

In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth is, literally, right under our noses.

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice?

'Inspiring.

This book reviews Metaverse, the possibilities and difficulties of sustainable development, and policy suggestions, especially within the context of the 2030 Agenda.

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crimeThe environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life.