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  • The Economics of Climate Change

    by Nick Hanley, Anthony D Owen ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time. With global warming now becoming physically noticeable and the Kyoto treaty stalling in its efforts to get the developed world on board, a look at the economic factors of global warming is very much welcome. With contributions from distinguished authors and covering everything you need ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Environmental Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If environmental protection is costly, how much should we spend on pollution control? Is it worth reducing pollution to zero, or should we accept some level of pollution because of the economic benefits associated with it? How can we assess the benefits that people get from a less-polluted atmosphere? In broad terms, environmental economics looks at how economic activity and policy affect the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Capitalism as if the World Matters

    by Jonathon Porritt ...
    When first published, Capitalism as if the World Matters, by one of the leading 'eco-warriors' of our time, shocked a generation of both environmentalists and business people. Jonathon Porritt brushed aside their artificial battle lines with a powerful argument that the only way to save the world from environmental catastrophe is to embrace a new type of capitalism, and to do it quickly. In this ... Read more

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  • Bankrupting Nature

    Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

    by Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström ...
    This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with business as usual, at best attempting to tinker at the margins of the problems. The authors argue that ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Muddling Toward Frugality

    by Warren Johnson ...
    Mr. Johnson’s thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering an age of economic scarcity. While human demands continue to rise, natural resources, especially the non-renewable kind, become harder to find and more expensive to extract, process, transport and distribute. This simple brute fact is the basic ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Integral Community Enterprise in Africa

    Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

    by Anselm Adodo ...
    Series series Transformation and Innovation
    At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades, Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to developed ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Thinking through Landscape

    by Augustin Berque ...
    Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in the ... Read more

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  • A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation

    by Tim Magee ...
    The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems, how will they additionally solve new challenges driven by climate change? This book illustrates how ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America

    Managing Vulnerability, Fostering Resilience

    Edited by Leonardo Esteves de Freitas, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book showcases experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation in countries in the Latin American region, focusing on managing vulnerability and fostering resilience. It includes a selection of papers presented at a specialist symposium on climate change adaptation held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2016.Consistent with the need for more cross ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security

    Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe

    Edited by E. Moe, P. Midford ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Modeling Dynamic Economic Systems

    by Matthias Ruth, Bruce Hannon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the dynamic processes in economic systems, concentrating on the extraction and use of the natural resources required to meet economic needs. Sections cover methods for dynamic modeling in economics, microeconomic models of firms, modeling optimal use of both nonrenewable and renewable resources, and chaos in economic models. This book does not require a substantial background in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Economic Value of Biodiversity

    by David Pearce, Dominic Moran ...
    Biodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety. This study describes in non-technical terms how cost-benefit analysis techniques can be applied to species and species loss, and how they provide a measure of the efficiency of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD