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“roberto pasqualino”

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  • Resources, Financial Risk and the Dynamics of Growth

    Systems and Global Society

    by Roberto Pasqualino, Aled Wynne Jones ...
    This book presents a new System Dynamics model (the ERRE model), a novel stock and flow consistent global impact assessment model designed by the authors to address the financial risks emerging from the interaction between economic growth and environmental limits under the presence of shocks.Building on the World3-03 Limits to Growth model, the ERRE links the financial system with the energy, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    by William D. Nordhaus ...
    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Resource Economics

    An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition

    by John C. Bergstrom, Alan Randall ...
    'I joined this amazing journey about 30 years ago. I benefited from all the theories, principles, and approaches offered in this book to explore the natural resource and environmental issues on the other side of the world. It makes me an enthusiastic and pragmatic teacher and researcher. In addition to rearranging and rewriting certain chapters, the fourth edition comprises new chapters on climate ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • The Economics of Water

    Rules and Institutions

    by Georg Meran, Markus Siehlow, Christian von Hirschhausen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay ... Read more

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  • Fleeing Vesuvius

    Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse

    Edited by Richard Douthwaite, Gillian Fallon ...
    The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will decline becausethe natural resources required for growth — particularly oil, the lifeblood of the world economy — can no longer be extracted in growingquantities. Indeed, as this book ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

    Technology, Incentives, Behavior

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international group of contributors, moves through the maze of carbon reduction methods and technologies, providing ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Economic Superorganism

    Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy

    by Carey W. King ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Energy drives the economy, economics informs policy, and policy affects social outcomes. Since the oil crises of the 1970s, pundits have debated the validity of this sequence, but most economists and politicians still ignore it. Thus, they delude the public about the underlying influence of energy costs and constraints on economic policies that address such pressing contemporary issues as income ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Economic Geography

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    by Dr. D.K.Sharma ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    In this book the term economy refers to a network of economic decision makers. Such a mechanistic interpretation derives from neoclassical ecomomices as the major source of theory in economic geography. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Transition Engineering

    Building a Sustainable Future

    by Susan Krumdieck ...
    Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world oil supply, scarcity of key industrial minerals, and local environmental constraints. These issues pose challenges for organizations, businesses, and communities, and engineers will need to begin developing ideas and projects to implement ... Read more

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  • Escape from Overshoot

    Economics for a Planet in Peril

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the ... Read more

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  • The Case for a Carbon Tax

    Getting Past Our Hang-ups to Effective Climate Policy

    by Shi-Ling Hsu, Dr. ...
    There's a simple, straightforward way to cut carbon emissions and prevent the most disastrous effects of climate change-and we're rejecting it because of irrational political fears. That's the central argument of The Case for a Carbon Tax, a clear-eyed, sophisticated analysis of climate change policy.Shi-Ling Hsu examines the four major approaches to curbing CO2: cap-and-trade; command and control ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

    Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

    Edited by Haris Doukas, Alexandros Flamos, Jenny Lieu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of ... Read more

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