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“john b loomis”

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  • Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

    America’s Best Investment

    by Linda J. Bilmes, John B. Loomis ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas, and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs.The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas, with particular application to the U.S. National Park Service. The framework covers many ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Determining the Economic Value of Water

    Concepts and Methods

    by Robert A. Young, John B. Loomis ...
    Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost-benefit analysis under conditions where market determined price signals are usually unavailable, economists have developed a range of alternative valuation methods for measuring economic benefits.This volume provides ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

    The IZA World of Labor Guide 2017

    Edited by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Olga K. Nottmeyer ...
    Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations of comprehensive evidence-based research with concise ... Read more

    $27.69 USD

  • Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

    The Tragedy of Endowment

    by Abiodun Alao ...
    Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in theHorn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and control of natural resources has disrupted communities and increased external intervention in these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy

    by Berkeley Hill ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications. There is little available which attempts to increase understanding of the nature of existing policies, their development, intentions, problems and successes.The aim of this book is to improve knowledge and understanding of the ‘policy process’ and its ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Environmental Amenities and Regional Economic Development

    Edited by Todd L. Cherry, Dan Rickman ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Economic development and the environment are presumed to be in conflict, but the latter part of the twentieth century experienced a series of economic changes that increasingly questioned this view. Economic activity became more footloose and the ability to attract productive labor became a prominent regional development concern. Consequently, environmental amenities began to have a larger role in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Living Economy

    Edited by Paul Ekins ...
    First Published in 1986. Economics is in trouble. Its policy instruments are blunt, its experts disagree and its theories are in disarray in the face of global economics disorder: unprecedented levels of indebtedness, endemic inflation, high unemployment , deepening world poverty and gross environmental degradation. The Living Economy analyses conventional economic theory in the light of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Cleaner-Energy Investments

    Cases and Teaching Notes

    by Srinivasan Sunderasan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is a compilation of case studies from different countries and covers contemporary technologies including electric vehicles and solar thermal power plants. The book highlights the real-world situations facing individual projects and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the underlying business propositions. It also sheds light on the factors that are routinely ignored during project ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Human Resources in the Urban Economy

    Edited by Mark Perlman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Due to the urbanisation of American society and the economic problems that accompanied it; a series of conferences was held to explore the economics of human resources. Originally published in 1963, this study draws together papers from the first conference dealing mainly with the under-utilisation and misallocation of human resources, as well as wage rates, migration patterns and education in ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • U.S. Energy R & D Policy

    The Role of Economics

    by John E. Tilton ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    During the past few decades there has been an advance in the research and development of solving the issue of declining energy resources. Funding by the U.S. government into energy research has risen steeply. Because of the growing importance of research and development in this field of research, in 1973 Resources for the Future undertook a study of energy-associated study, including an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Foreign Aid and Emerging Powers

    Asian Perspectives on Official Development Assistance

    by Iain Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Current debates on emerging powers as foreign aid donors often fail to examine the myriad geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural tensions that influence policies of Official Development Assistance (ODA).This book advocates a regional geopolitical approach to explaining donor-donor relationships and provides a multidisciplinary critical assessment of the contemporary debates on emerging powers ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Allocation of Regulatory Competence in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

    by Josephine van Zeben ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
    The European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the world's largest carbon trading market. This book offers a new perspective on the EU ETS as a multi-level governance regime, in which the regulatory process is composed of three distinct 'competences' - norm setting, implementation, and enforcement. Are these competences best combined in a single regulator at one level of government or ... Read more

    $118.89 USD