Environmental and Resource Economics Set – serie
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Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies
Av John A. Dixon, David E. James m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
750 kr
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Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation.Following their …
Elephants, Economics and Ivory
Av Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
750 kr
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Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for …
Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects
Av John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
750 kr
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It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose …
Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development
Av David Reed
Häftad, 2013
772 kr
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This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of …
Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects
Av John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2513 kr
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It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose …
Economics of Dryland Management
Av John A. Dixon, David E. James m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2513 kr
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We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20 per cent of the world's population …
Elephants, Economics and Ivory
Av Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2513 kr
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Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for …
Forests: Market and Intervention Failures
Five case studies
Av Soren Wibe, Tom Jones
Inbunden, 2009
1522 kr
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The economic value of forest. has long been recognized, but the ways in which that value is calculated and the management policies adopted in consequence have all too often resulted in overuse and irreversible destruction. This is spectacularly obvious around the Mediterranean basin, but it is also …
Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development
Av David Reed
Inbunden, 2009
2588 kr
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This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of …
Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures
Four case studies
Inbunden, 2009
2513 kr
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Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and recycling nutrients, as well as for their …
Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies
Av John A. Dixon, David E. James m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2513 kr
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Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation.Following their …
Revaluation of Women's Work
Inbunden, 1992
1522 kr
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This book provides a survey and analysis of the different ways in which women's work is valued throughout the world. It challenges the narrow definition of work as paid work, as that excludes so many of women's activities. It looks at ways in which women's worth has been consistently undervalued in …
Paradise Lost
Ecological Economics of Biodiversity
Av Edward Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1063 kr
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Our wellbeing-even our existence-depends on ecological systems and biological diversity. Ecologists and economists alike recognise that loss of biodiversity is one of the most serious problems the world faces yet their narrow, conventional approaches often fail to grasp all the implications of the …
Valuing the Environment
Six Case Studies
Av Jean-Philippe Barde, David W. Pearce
Inbunden, 1991
965 kr
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The 'Pearce Report', "Blueprint for a Green Economy", puts the role which monetary evaluation of environmental costs and benefit can play firmly into the public eye. This book looks at six countries where such evaluation techniques are applied and at the obstacles to their further use.
