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Development Policies in Natural Resource Economies
Edited by Jörg Mayer, Brian Chambers, Ayisha Farooq
This important book examines the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It addresses the key issue of how to make the primary sector sufficiently produc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Measuring Sustainable Development
Giles Atkinson, Richard Dubourg, Kirk Hamilton, Mohan Munasinghe, David Pearce, Carlos Young
This path-breaking book focuses on the theory and practice of economic development as viewed from the perspective of sustainability, and the implications of sustainability for development policy. It demonstrates how various indicators ca... -
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Sustainability in Question
Edited by Jörg Köhn, John M. Gowdy, Friedrich Hinterberger, Jan van der Straaten
This book explores approaches to sustainability by linking the economy, society and the environment. The international group of experts uses concepts of sustainability from the physical and social sciences to develop a framework for cre...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economics Against the Grain Volume Two
Julian L. Simon
This second volume of the late Julian Simon’s articles and essays continues the theme of volume one in presenting unorthodox and controversial approaches to many fields in economics. -
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The Political Economy of Environmental Policy
Bouwe R. Dijkstra
Why is it that market instruments have not been used to their full potential in environmental policy? Using a public choice perspective, this book critically analyses the political economy of environmental policy with special emphasis o... -
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Pollution for Sale
Edited by Steve Sorrell, Jim Skea
Emissions trading has become a central feature of global efforts to control climate change. Its inclusion in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change represents a victory for advocates of market-based instruments...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustaining Development
Daniel W. Bromley
Sustaining Development brings together, in one accessible volume, a selection of Daniel W. Bromley’s path-breaking theoretical and empirical papers on economic development and environmental problems in the developing world. -
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The Economic Valuation of Landscape Change
Jose M.L. Santos
The increase in landscape degradation in the last decades has resulted in a growing public concern for policies to conserve the countryside. This book presents theories of valuation and economic welfare which are applied to policies to ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Private Capital Flows and the Environment
Edited by Bradford S. Gentry
With the dramatic shift from foreign aid to private investment as the engine of growth in many developing countries, what are the environmental implications? Can private capital actually be used to put us on the path to sustainable deve... -
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Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment
Edited by Kenneth Button, Erik Verhoef
This important and timely book will become an essential reference source for policymakers at the national and local level as well as academics and postgraduate students interested in transport economics and environmental economics. -
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Ecology and the Crisis of Overpopulation
Anup Shah
Current population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment. This book attempts to explain trends in the growth of the global population and the ecological c... -
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Environmental Transition in Nordic and Baltic Countries
Edited by Hans Aage
This book provides a comparative overview of the environmental and resource problems experienced in the Nordic and Baltic regions. It considers policies to combat environmental challenges and evaluates future economic growth and economic...