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  • Carbon Policy - How robust measurement and verification can improve policy effectiveness

    de Bruce Rowse ...
    Around the world, over 1000 carbon policy measures to reduce carbon emissions have been implemented, with varying degrees of effectiveness. In many cases the level of carbon abatement achieved as a result of a policy is unknown and unquantifiable because it simply has not been measured. The consequence of failing to measure savings is wasted energy efficiency investments of up to billions of ... Leer más

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  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    de Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Why We Disagree About Climate Change

    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

    de Mike Hulme ...
    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    de Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Public Investment, the Rate of Return, and Optimal Fiscal Policy

    de Kenneth J. Arrow, Mordecai Kruz ...
    Series series RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    This book, co-authored by the Nobel-prized economist, Kenneth Arrow, considers public expenditures in the context of modern growth theory. It analyzes optimal growth with public capital. A theory of 'controllability' is developed and injected into public economics and growth models. Originally published in 1970 ... Leer más

    $265.99 USD

  • Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program

    de James P. Howard, II ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic effects. Created by Congress in 1968, the NFIP provides flood insurance protection to property owners, in return for local government commitment to sound floodplain management. Since 1994, the NFIP has included a Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Post-Faustmann Forest Resource Economics

    Edición de Shashi Kant ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The current paradigm of forest economics is based on Faustmann Formulation (FF) of land expectation value proposed by Martin Faustmann. It was a great achievement by a forester to propose a formulation that captures some fundamental economic features of capital theory which. However, the followers of the FF approach have trapped themselves into the past, and have not shown any indication of ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Climate-Proof Your Personal Finances: How (and Where) to Safeguard Your Family's Budget and Lifestyle

    de David W. Stookey ...
    "Climate-Proof" examines how global warming is threatening your personal finances, your future lifestyle and your family's dreams. It's less about drought, more about rising prices, threats to your job, and the endangered value of your home. Less about sea-level rise, more about your taxes, fees and insurance costs.Filled with ways to protect your wallet and your life plans, "Climate-Proof" ... Leer más

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  • Socio-Economics: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Ethics, Institutions, and Markets

    de Beat Bürgenmeier ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is intended as a warning against the kind of hard-core liberalism which blames state intervention for the disappointing results achieved in matters of macroeconomic, competition and social welfare policy. In calling attention to the social dimension of economics, the book stresses the need for an ethical yardstick which can only be pro vided by an interdisciplinary approach to the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

    Edición de Dieter Helm, Cameron Hepburn ...
    The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end. Though there has been much enthusiasm from political and environmental groups, the underlying economics and politics remain highly controversial. This book takes a cool headed look at the critical roadblocks to agreement, examining the economics of climate change, the ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Multicriteria and Clustering

    Classification Techniques in Agrifood and Environment

    de Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Christiana Koliouska, Constantin Zopounidis ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors. It explains the need for multicriteria decision analysis and teaches users how to use recent advances in multicriteria and clustering classification techniques in practice. Further, it presents some of the most common methodologies for statistical analysis and ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Social and Economic Benefits of Protected Areas

    An Assessment Guide

    Edición de Marianne Kettunen, Patrick ten Brink ...
    Protected areas (PAs) contain biodiversity and ecosystems of high conservation value. In addition, these areas provide a range of benefits, both direct and indirect, to our societies and economies, i.e. so called ecosystem services. These services include, for example, an ecosystem's ability to regulate floods and climate, purify water, secure the pollination of crops, and create opportunities for ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD