This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan.
Este libro es el resultado de un dialógico interdisciplinario en el que confluyen profesionales de diferentes campos del conocimiento, pero que tienen en común su preocupación por la crisis socioambiental, además de su optimismo y confianza en que la racionalidad humana tendrá la capacidad de actuar responsablemente con el planeta y podrá revertir la tendencia de agotamiento, degradación y deterioro de la riqueza natural y social que ha caracterizado la economía de mercado hegemónica en los últimas décadas.
"La bioeconomía constituye una estrategia basada en la idea de un uso más eficiente de los recursos, tecnologías y procesos biológicos para la provisión de bienes y servicios que nuestras sociedades demandan.
El contenido de esta obra tiene una orientación fundamentalmente práctica con actividades diseñadas para facilitar al lector/alumno la asimilación de los contenidos en aspectos como los documentos soportes y papeles, concepto de documentación, el documento, documentación de nacionales y extranjeros con especial referencia al dni cartas de identidad y pasaporte, documentoscopia.
El libro presenta las tendencias de la gestión ambiental en el mundo y recoge en su contenido la información necesaria para que cualquier ciudadano entienda de manera simple cuáles son las acciones a tomar para realizar una gestión ambiental acorde con las situaciones y circunstancias de su territorio.
La economia ambiental es aquella rama del analisis economico que sugiere la aplicacion de algunos metodos que permitan valorar economicamente los recursos naturales, fortaleciendo el concepto de valoracion ambiental, que tiene como proposito asignar un valor monetario al dano realizado al recurso natural, al ecosistema o bien a las externalidades o fallas del mercado ocasionadas por las actividades economicas que pueden repercutir positivamente o negativamente a un agente economico, a un bien o a un recurso natural.
"En este catálogo se presenta la información relativa a los proyectos nanciados por la Ponticia Universidad Javeriana Cali entre 2014-2018, para el caso de los grupos de investigación de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales.
Focusing on air pollution, energy efficiency and climate change, this book provides an introduction to Japan's environmental policies and regulations, and offers economic analyses and RIAs (Regulatory Impact Analysis) of environmental regulations implemented or planned by the national and local governments.
This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners.
Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats.
The books provides a timely analysis in support of a paradigm shift in the field of wastewater management, from 'treatment for disposal' to 'treatment for reuse' by offering a variety of value propositions for water, nutrient and energy recovery which can support cost savings, cost recovery, and profits, in a sector that traditionally relies on public funding.
Since the 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, the looming prospect of Earth's changing climate has inspired a broad movement dedicated to a sustainable future.
India has been traditionally well-endowed with large freshwater reserves, but increasing population, urbanization and agricultural growth in recent decades are causing overexploitation of surface and groundwater.
This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind's predilection with continuous GDP-growth.
This book shows, we believe, the breadth and the complexity of issues that econo- mists now tackle in their analysis of the connections between the ecosystem and the economic system.
Technology is taking on an increasingly central and determining role in so- ciety, and can provide contradictory results: wealth on the one hand, but also unemployment, environmental imbalances and other social problems on the other.
Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective is a modern academic work that seeks to bring out both to the private and the policy sectors the importance of risk management in relation to the envi- ronment in agriculture, as the world moves towards freer markets.
International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy.
The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place.
Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap- ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza- tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece.
Taking advantage of the many specialists visiting Spain prior to the INFORMS Meeting in Barcelona, hold from July 14th to July 17th 1997, we organized a work- shop on Decision Analysis Applications at the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain, from J uly 11th to 12th 1997, under the sponsorship of de the Instituto Espaiia.
This book draws together contributions from forest economists in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, with co-authors from institutions around the world.
This book deals with voluntary approaches between farmers and water suppliers as an instrument to meet environmental standards, impacted by agricultural activities, more economically efficient and environmentally effective than by exclusive application of alternative instruments including command-and-control approaches.
Most of the chapters in this volume are authored by staff or associates of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE).
