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6 produkter

1. 

   Living on the Edge

   Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the Urban Interface

   Av Austin Troy, Roger G. Kennedy

   Inbunden, 2007

   1252 kr

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   Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly developing in so-called urban-wildland interface zones, where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist uneasily …

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   Air Pollution and Regional Economic Performance

   A Case Study

   Av Jane Vise Hall

   Inbunden, 1997

   1591 kr

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   Environmental regulation requires that substantial productive resources be diverted to efforts to improve environmental quality. Economic theory says that, all else being equal, regulation will consequently cause costs to rise with resulting losses in competitive advantage and a general weakening …

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   Long-term Economics of Climate Change

   Beyond a Doubling of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations

   Av Darwin C. Hall, Jane Vise Hall m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2001

   1505 kr

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   This volume will include scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. Analyses will examine geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, physical and institutional lags, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervention, …

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   Economics of Pesticides, Sustainable Food Production, and Organic Food Markets

   Av Darwin C. Hall, L. Joe Moffitt

   Inbunden, 2002

   1884 kr

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   Economic assessment of sustainable agricultural practices has continued to mature and to add to our understanding of how we might design policies to ensure an adequate and diverse food supply. This volume presents some of the recent developments and applications in this field and is much more …

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   Perspectives on Climate Change

   Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics

   Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Richard B. Howarth

   Inbunden, 2005

   1433 kr

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   This book explores the interplay between science, economics, politics, and ethics in understanding the challenge that climate change poses to the international community. A central theme is that climate change involves core issues of scientific uncertainty and intergenerational fairness that must …

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   Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management

   Av Jon D. Erickson, Frank Messner m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2007

   1994 kr

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   The papers in this volume illustrate the power of a scientific approach to ecological economics. Good science is a careful blend of theory and empirical testing. Theory without empirical grounding is of no practical value and random case studies without a theoretical context are not generalizable. …