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Carbon Sinks and Climate Change
Forests in the Fight Against Global Warming
Häftad, 2011
564 kr
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Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides …
Innovations in Sustainable Consumption
New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices
Av Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2124 kr
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This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change - for example, emphasizing resource efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources - are insufficient to meet the most pressing sustainability …
Macroeconomics and the Environment
Essays on Green Accounting
Inbunden, 2013
2436 kr
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Though scientists and environmentalists have long expressed concern over the rapid deterioration of the global environment, economists have largely failed to recognize the issue's relevance to their field. Salah El Serafy argues for an increased focus on the economic aspects of environmental …
Innovations in Sustainable Consumption
New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices
Av Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
533 kr
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This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change - for example, emphasizing resource efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources - are insufficient to meet the most pressing sustainability …
Beyond Uneconomic Growth
Economics, Equity and the Ecological Predicament
Av Joshua Farley, Deepak Malghan
Inbunden, 2016
2417 kr
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This engaging book brings together leading ecological economists to collectively present a definitive case for looking beyond economic growth as the sole panacea for the world's ecological predicament. Grounded in physics, ecology, and the science of human behavior, contributors show how economic …
From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy
Inbunden, 2014
1918 kr
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This timely collection of essays is a magnificent testament to Daly's pioneering work over four decades. Armed with clear scientific principles and an unfailing logic, Daly sets out on an urgent quest to develop an economics fit for purpose on a finite planet. The originality and clarity of thought …
From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy
Häftad, 2016
609 kr
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This timely collection of essays is a magnificent testament to Daly's pioneering work over four decades. Armed with clear scientific principles and an unfailing logic, Daly sets out on an urgent quest to develop an economics fit for purpose on a finite planet. The originality and clarity of thought …
Sustainability in Question
The Search for a Conceptual Framework
Av Jörg Köhn, John M. Gowdy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2331 kr
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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 creating policies for sustainability. Sustainability in Question …
Theory of the Environment and Economic Systems
A Unified Framework for Ecological Economic Analysis and Decision Support
Inbunden, 2001
2365 kr
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A number of tools for environmental analysis and decision support have been developed over time, including life-cycle assessment, substance-flow analysis, environmental impact and risk assessment. Many of these tools have different economic systems - a product, a regional substance-flow, a factory …
Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics
On the Foundations of Environmental Policy
Av Stefan Baumgärtner, Malte Faber m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2417 kr
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This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at 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. This captures the phenomenon whereby several effects necessarily emerge …
Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment
Governance, Policy and Multifunctionality
Inbunden, 2004
2417 kr
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Apart from food and raw materials, agriculture can also provide ancillary benefits such as landscapes, biodiversity, cultural heritage and thriving rural communities. This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of strategies for sustainable management practices and their implementation through the …
Economics of Technology Diffusion and Energy Efficiency
Av Peter Mulder
Inbunden, 2005
2004 kr
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Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not …
Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application
Av Jon D. Erickson, John M. Gowdy
Inbunden, 2007
2417 kr
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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. …
America’s Changing Coasts
Private Rights and Public Trust
Av Diana M. Whitelaw, Gerald R. Visgilio
Inbunden, 2005
2004 kr
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Following a comprehensive overview by the editors, this volume's expert contributors provide detailed discussion of important legal, ecological and social issues associated with coastal resource management, as well as the most significant challenges confronting land use planners and resource …
Time Strategies, Innovation and Environmental Policy
Av Christian Sartorius, Stefan Zundel
Inbunden, 2005
2417 kr
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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. …
Economic Growth, Material Flows and the Environment
New Applications of Structural Decomposition Analysis and Physical Input–Output Tables
Inbunden, 2005
1831 kr
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Rutger Hoekstra examines the complex relationship between the monetary economy and the materials flows that are extracted and emitted by economic activities. These physical flows are responsible for many important environmental problems such as unsustainable resource depletion, waste production and …
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly
Inbunden, 2007
1952 kr
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Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development comprises a carefully chosen selection of some 25 articles, speeches, congressional testimonies, reviews, and critiques from the last ten years of Herman Daly's ever-illuminating work.This book seeks to identify the blind spots and errors in standard …
Socioecological Transitions and Global Change
Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use
Av Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl
Inbunden, 2007
2004 kr
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This significant new book analyses fundamental changes in society-nature interaction: the socioeconomic use of materials, energy and land. The volume presents a number of case studies addressing transitions from an agrarian to an industrial socioecological regime, analysed within the materials and …
Conflict, Cooperation and Institutions in International Water Management
An Economic Analysis
Inbunden, 2007
2417 kr
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This book asks under which conditions cooperation is in the interest of the riparian countries sharing international waters, and how institutions must be designed to realize potential gains of cooperation. The author, Ines Dombrowsky, develops a conceptual framework that draws upon different …
Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific
Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator
Av Phillip Lawn, Matthew Clarke
Inbunden, 2008
2489 kr
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Frequent references are made to the 'Asian economic miracle' as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the Asia-Pacific region has progressed at the same rate that GDP …
Carbon Sinks and Climate Change
Forests in the Fight Against Global Warming
Inbunden, 2009
1831 kr
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Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides …
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly
Häftad, 2008
669 kr
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Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development comprises a carefully chosen selection of some 25 articles, speeches, congressional testimonies, reviews, and critiques from the last ten years of Herman Daly's ever-illuminating work.This book seeks to identify the blind spots and errors in standard …
Valuation for Sustainable Development
Methods and Policy Indicators
Av Sylvie Faucheux, Martin O’Connor
Inbunden, 1998
2331 kr
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This important new book develops an ecological-economics perspective on sustainability at the regional, national and international level. It explores prospects for sustainable development using methods firmly grounded in empirical reality, as well as emphasizing scientific, economic and …
Valuation and the Environment
Theory, Method and Practice
Av Martin O’Connor, Clive L. Spash
Inbunden, 1999
2331 kr
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This major new book presents recent advances in the theory and practice of environmental valuation and resource management. Leading experts in the field present methodological and empirical evidence for applying valuation methods to ecological policy problems.The methodological contributions …
Capital and Time in Ecological Economics
Neo-Austrian Modelling
Av Malte Faber, John Proops m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2294 kr
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This ground-breaking book focuses on neo-Austrian capital theory and its application to the modelling of long-run economy-environment interactions.The book begins by presenting an overview of the modelling approach and offers an historical survey of capital theory and its development. The authors …
Economy and ecosystems in change
Analytical and Historical Approaches
Av Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Jan van der Straaten
Inbunden, 1997
2613 kr
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Economy and Ecosystems in Change addresses ecological problems from an economic perspective, and provides policy suggestions for resource management and environmental sustainability based on integrated, multidisciplinary information, methods and applications.The book begins by introducing the …
Transition to a Sustainable Society
A Backcasting Approach to Modelling Energy and Ecology
Av Henk A.J. Mulder, Wouter Biesiot
Inbunden, 1998
2124 kr
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The quantity of fossil fuels left on the planet is limited, and their use is subject to further restrictions due to constraints on CO2 emissions. This crisis has brought to the forefront of the political agenda the need for a conversion to a sustainable society. In this compelling book, a …
Modelling Global Change
The Art of Integrated Assessment Modelling
Inbunden, 1998
1952 kr
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Integrated assessment modelling is an active and rapidly developing field, triggered by the debate on climate change and the move towards the goal of sustainable development. This book provides an integrated approach to modelling, using a transdisciplinary approach. The author summarizes the main …
Sustainability and Firms
Technological Change and the Changing Regulatory Environment
Av Sylvie Faucheux, John M. Gowdy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1764 kr
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This important book addresses the prospects for reconciling economic competitiveness with sustainable development. It shows that we cannot simply assume that changes in public attitudes, business policies and government regulation will guarantee the conditions for long-term ecological, social and …
Economics of Nature and the Nature of Economics
Av Cutler J. Cleveland, David I. Stern m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2187 kr
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This book discusses important recent developments in the theory, concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field of ecological economics.Topics …
