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Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World by James Sumberg 9780415698061
RRP: £135.00£117.28The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics... -
Social and Economic Benefits of Protected Areas: An Assessment Guide by Marianne Kettunen 9780415632843
RRP: £54.99£47.72Protected 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... -
Local Climate Change and Society by M. A. Mohamed Salih 9780415627153
RRP: £47.99£41.81Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society's relationship with the environment and... -
Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development by David Reed 9780415850872
RRP: £43.99£38.84This 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... -
Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects by John A. Dixon 9780415848381
RRP: £43.99£38.44It 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... -
Multifunctional Rural Land Management: Economics and Policies by Floor Brouwer 9780415849647
RRP: £43.99£38.44The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts. Many interested parties, including farmers, nature conservationists, rural residents and tourists, compete for the same space. Especially in densely... -
Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies by John A. Dixon 9780415847131
RRP: £43.99£38.84Drylands 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... -
Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods by Robert A. Young 9780415838504
RRP: £69.99£60.36Water 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... -
Environmental Social Accounting Matrices: Theory and applications by Pablo Martinez de Anguita 9780415539838
RRP: £53.99£46.87In this book Professors Pablo Martinez de Anguita and John E. Wagner put two disciplines together, regional and ecological economics, presenting a way to understand ecological economic concerns from a regional perspective, and providing a mathematical... -
Sustainable Development: Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being by Ines Omann 9780415516815
RRP: £43.99£38.44This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in... -
Mainstreaming Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services into Development Policy by Pushpam Kumar 9780367776985
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book highlights the latest advances in the science and practice of using ecosystem services to inform decisions for economic development in the context of the developing countries. The development of the ecosystem services paradigm has enhanced... -
Energy Price Shocks and Macroeconomic Performance by Douglas R. Bohi 9781138947153
RRP: £54.99£47.72The oil price shocks of the 1970's led to severe recessions in the 1980's in the United States. Originally published in 1989 in the aftermath, Bohi attempts to show both how energy prices can cause a decline in output and employment and to explore... -
Emissions Trading: Principles and Practice by Thomas H. Tietenberg 9781933115306
RRP: £130.00£112.51First published in 1985, Emissions Trading was a comprehensive review of the first large-scale attempt to use economic incentives in environmental policy in the U.S. and of the empirical and theoretical research on which this approach is based. Since its... -
Emissions Trading: Principles and Practice by Thomas H. Tietenberg 9781933115313
RRP: £51.99£45.19First published in 1985, Emissions Trading was a comprehensive review of the first large-scale attempt to use economic incentives in environmental policy in the U.S. and of the empirical and theoretical research on which this approach is based. Since its... -
On Borrowed Time: Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion by John E. Tilton 9781891853579
RRP: £35.99£31.69The sharp rise in mineral use has revived concern about scarcity. Economist John Tilton responds by analyzing recent trends in the consumption and availability of minerals that are most integral to the needs of modern civilization. He reminds readers... -
Ecological Economics from the Ground Up by Hali Healy 9781849713986
RRP: £135.00£118.28Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles,... -
Economic Management of Marine Living Resources: A Practical Introduction by David Whitmarsh 9781849712583
RRP: £135.00£117.28This textbook has two main objectives. Firstly, it outlines the problems associated with the management and conservation of marine living resources, with particular attention given to the twin concepts of economic value and sustainability. It... -
Climate Change Mitigation, Technological Innovation and Adaptation: A New Perspective on Climate Policy by Valentina Bosetti 9781849809498
£100.61This book presents a rigorous yet accessible treatment of the main topics in climate change policy using a large body of research generated using WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid), an innovative and path-breaking integrated assessment model. ... -
Modern Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hydropower Conflicts by Per-Olov Johansson 9781849808804
£95.61This important book sheds light on the ways in which modern tools of welfare economics can be used to assess the benefits and costs of resource conflicts involving hydropower. The chapters highlight key methodological issues in this area; ranging from... -
Deforestation and Climate Change: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation by Valentina Bosetti 9781848448247
£95.61Deforestation and forest degradation have long been recognized as environmental problems, with concerns over conservation of natural habitats and biological diversity capturing both scientific and public attention. More recently, the debate over tropical... -
Changing Climate, Changing Economy by Jean-Philippe Touffut 9781848448377
RRP: £33.95£31.69How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how... -
Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts and Cases by Matthias Ruth 9781848440371
£100.61Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back development, destroy... -
The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in Industrial Ecosystems by Matthias Ruth 9781847207425
£105.61Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, with contributions... -
Understanding the Costs of Environmental Regulation in Europe by Michael MacLeod 9781847204929
£109.61Government regulation is necessary to the economic life of all developed countries. However the costs of regulation, in particular the cost estimates employed in the policy-making process, are often hotly debated. Drawing on recent case studies from... -
Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy: Economic, Institutional and Management Approaches by Timothy J. Foxon 9781847203823
£111.01Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy analyses the interplay of technological, institutional, market and management factors in the dynamics of energy systems. The book aims to inform national and international policies to promote low carbon innovation. ... -
Oceans Governance in the Twenty-first Century: Managing the Blue Planet by Marcus Haward 9781847201119
£100.61Oceans Governance in the Twenty-first Century analyses the development of national, regional and international initiatives and arrangements directed towards governance of the world's seas and oceans. The authors examine those factors that shape oceans... -
Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development by David Reed 9781844079599
RRP: £135.00£117.68This 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... -
Elephants, Economics and Ivory by Edward B. Barbier 9781844079551
RRP: £135.00£117.28Ivory 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... -
Economics of Dryland Management by John A. Dixon 9781844079544
RRP: £135.00£117.68We 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... -
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges by K. N. Ninan 9781844076512
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and valuation in the... -
Forests: Market and Intervention Failures: Five case studies by Soren Wibe 9781844079568
RRP: £86.99£75.54The 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... -
The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2000/2001: A Survey of Current Issues by Henk Folmer 9781840643701
RRP: £40.95£36.90There has been an explosion in the literature and research on environmental and resource economics in recent years. This major annual publication provides a cutting-edge survey of current research by the leading experts in the field. The latest... -
From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy by Herman E. Daly 9781783479955
£105.61In this important book, Herman E. Daly lays bare the weaknesses of growth economics and explains why, in contrast, a steady-state economy is both necessary and desirable. Through the course of the book, Daly develops the basic concept and theory of a... -
Smart Green Cities: Toward a Carbon Neutral World by Mr. Woodrow W. Clark 9781472455543
RRP: £135.00£117.68Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke have produced a book that is both practical and visionary. They have examined the infrastructure needs -... -
Fiscal policies for development and climate action by World Bank 9781464813580
£48.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464813580Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications -
Saved by the Tree Frog: A Bright Future for Mankind and Nature by Ignace Schops 9789401497343
RRP: £25.00£16.38The twenty-first century began with an ecological shutdown, a climatic breakdown, a financial meltdown, and a virological lockdown. Without systemic change, twenty years from now we will be haunted more by the things we didn’t do than by the things we... -
Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World by Sumant Sinha 9789356294325
RRP: £17.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294325Author Sumant SinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint HarperBusinessPublisher HarperCollins India -
International Trade in Recyclable and Hazardous Waste in Asia by Michikazu Kojima 9781782547853
£100.61Little is known about the volume of international recycling in Asia, the problems caused and the struggle to properly manage the trade. This pathbreaking book addresses this gap in the literature, and provides a comprehensive overview of the... -
Innovation under Uncertainty: The Future of Carbon-free Energy Technologies by Valentina Bosetti 9781782546467
£95.61Stabilization of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases to safe levels will require, at least in the longer term, some kind of technological revolution. This, in turn, can only be achieved through investments in the research, development and... -
Carbon Pricing: Early Experience and Future Prospects by John Quiggin 9781782547730
£95.61In 2012, Australia took the major step of introducing a carbon price, involving the creation of a system of emissions permits initially issued at a fixed price. Carbon Pricing brings together experts instrumental in the development, and operation, of...