Environmental economics

Containing rigorous hard evidence, this book is of immense practical use to postgraduates, researchers and business communities affected by or working in environmental regulation.

Upon competition of a ten year research project which analyzes the effect of air pollution and death rates in US cities, Lester B.

Professor Bob Williams examines the essential elements that give ecosystems their durability.

Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people's lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

In order to fill a growing need for research into forestry issues, Resources for the future held a symposium in 1977.

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature.

This book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan.

This timely handbook provides a current and comprehensive examination of integrated reporting, both practical and research-based.

Although Green approaches to politics have had some practical successes in a range of different countries, the movement has lacked a fully developed and coherent political theory.

This book explores the question of how urban sustainability can be achieved despite a lack of knowledge integration between different fields.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis and modelling of demand, capacity, quality of services, economics, and sustainability of the air transport system and its main components - - airports, airlines, and ATC/ATM (Air Traffic Control/Management).

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.

This book provides a detailed overview of ecological money and finance.

The analysis of the relationship between transport and environmental policy invites an interdisciplinary treatment and a variety of approaches, and rightly so.

Brings together a collection of papers from academia, government, and policy think tanks on US energy tax policy.

This book reflects the state of the art in nonlinear economic dynamics, providing a broad overview of dynamic economic models at different levels.

More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth.

'The book is a pioneering attempt to see exactly what difference economic valuation of environmental effects would have made to six actual, on-going, development projects, if it had been done at the time of appraisal.

Throughout history, humans have sought to enhance their wellbeing across various domains.

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century.

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'Cool Companies' turns on its head the idea that measures to avert global warming and climate change will pile massive costs on to the industrial sector.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

Frances Cairncross, senior editor of The Economist and author of the best selling Costing the Earth, shows that economic growth does not have to be at the expense of environmental protection.

This book is an outcome of a research project on "e;Sustainable Forestry and the Environment in Developing Countries"e;.

Biosphärenreservate sind großflächige, von der UNESCO anerkannte Kulturlandschaften, die weitgehend unter gesetzlichem Schutz stehen.

Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and case studies focusing on disasters and security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in Europe, the Mediterranean and other regions.

What do Brazil's top beauty brand, America's second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world's third bestselling car have in common--besides achieving enormous success with revenue in the tens of billions?

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics and their links to environmental policy.

Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land explores the processes and techniques of making polluted land safe for planting edible and non-edible crops.

This book explores the agrifood system transitions in Brazil to provide a new understanding of the trajectory of agriculture and rural development in this country.

The volume introduces and examines the business environment model and presents methods of appraisal to examine the model, allowing students to view the business environment both internally and externally.

This book presents the results of the study "e;Infrastructure Capital, Maintenance and Road Damage Costs for Different Heavy Goods Vehicles in the EU"e; which was commissioned by the European Commission, DG VII.

The authors address the problems of determining the implications of different environmental standards and public policies by investigating their effect on industrial costs and resource use within linear-programming framework.

Coined in the 1970s, the term sustainable development and the ideas behind it have enjoyed varying amounts of popularity over the years.

With drastic action needing to be taken now, rather than over the 30 years to 2050, this book addresses the crucial question of how to get action from governments who will always put short-term considerations (e.

Originally published in 1987, this book brings together information previously buried in specialist sources and makes it available to the student in a non-technical and well-illustrated synthesis.

Originally published in 1994.

Now in its third edition, Hendrik Van den Berg's International Economics: A Heterodox Approach covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate international economics courses.

Imagine a waste-free future for your business, your family, and yourself A circular economy is an economic system designed to save money, eliminate waste, and achieve deep sustainability.

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions.

This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bioeconomy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits.

Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds: Benefits and Applications presents bioactive compounds and functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being.