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Economic Incentives and Environmental Regulation: Evidence from the MENA Region by Hala Abou-Ali 9781781002377
$136.24This unique book explores a wide range of environmental issues centred on the Middle East and North Africa region, where environmental degradation and impacts of climate change are known to be more critical than in other parts of the world. Extensive... -
Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services Roger Fouquet 9781849800075
RRP: $56.70$51.48What happens when a radically-new fuel or technology transforms the energy system? How does the energy system evolve at different stages of economic development? What are the implications for people's lives and their environment? Building on an... -
Delusion of Green Captialism: Why it Can't Work by Daniel Tanuro
RRP: $18.00$16.46A lucid and rigorous demonstration that climate change cannot be overcome unless capitalism is overcome. The scourge of humanity is also the scourge of nature. This is a great achievement: putting forth the necessary contours of the direction that must... -
Land Economics Research by Joseph Ackerman
RRP: $47.72$41.96Originally published in 1962, Land Economics Research brings together papers presented at a symposium in Nebraska in 1961 which deal with ideas, theories and suggestions in land economics to encourage problem-solving in American land issues. This report... -
Environmental Economics Research And China's Green Development Strategy by Youguo Zhang
RRP: $174.15$151.65This book discusses several important issues in the practice of China's green development. It analyzes the carbon mitigation, water conservation and environmental pollution from the perspectives of economic development, technological change, production... -
The Public Economy of Urban Communities by Julius Margoli
RRP: $47.72$41.96Originally published in 1965, Margolis brings together a wide variety of papers on a multitude of subjects relating to the urban public economy presented at the second conference on urban public expenditures in 1964. This collection covers issues such as... -
The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, Complicity by Kirstin Munro
RRP: $103.20$78.52Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, this book describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way they get things done into... -
U.S. Interests and Global Natural Resources: Energy, Minerals, Food by Emery. A. Castle
RRP: $42.56$37.62Originally published in 1983, U.S. Interests and Global Natural Resources explores the links between foreign policy and the global distribution of natural resources paying particular attention to the U.S. This collection of essays delves into the... -
The Economics of Water Utilization in the Beet Sugar Industry by George O. G. Lof
RRP: $141.90$122.69Originally published in 1965, this case study of the beet sugar industry undertaken by George O. G. Lof and Allen V. Kneese illustrates the economic importance of water to industry. This study delves into the history and technology of the beet sugar... -
Trends in Energy Use in Industrial Societies: An Overview by Joy Dunkerley
RRP: $141.90$122.69Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries. Originally published in 1980 and using data from 1972, this... -
Analyzing Superfund: Economics, Science and Law by Richard L. Revesz
RRP: $33.53$29.19Originally published in 1995, Analyzing Superfund outlines the key issues of the superfund reauthorization debate in the United States. The Superfund law faced criticism for being wasteful, inefficient and expensive. These papers sought to shed light on... -
Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Transforming Economies and Policies for a Sustainable Future by Vinod Thomas
RRP: $51.59$45.23The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5... -
Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns by Thomas J. Lareau
RRP: $99.32$86.49Originally published in 1983, Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns claimed that two-thirds of energy consumption in the United States came from households. This study aimed to estimate the expected changes in household activities and how this would... -
Climate-smart Innovation: Social Entrepreneurship And Sustainable Development In The Environmental Economy by Elena Popkova
RRP: $174.15$151.65This book studies smart green innovation through the prism of social entrepreneurship as a driver for sustainable development and the development of an environmental economy. It systematizes and analyzes the modern challenges of the environmental... -
Transportation and Urban Land by Lowdon Wingo, Jr.
RRP: $154.80$133.66Urban land is a precious resource and originally published in 1961, Transportation and Urban Land aims to create an approach to analysing and projecting its uses with a particular focus on the household sector. By considering matters such as employment... -
Economics and Episodic Disease: The Benefits of Preventing a Giardiasis Outbreak by Professor Winston Harrington
RRP: $49.01$43.06Originally published in 1991, this study uses the 1983 outbreak of Giardiasis in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania as a case study to explore the social costs of waterborne illnesses to a community. With over 6,000 people affected in that particular case,... -
Green Pages: The Business of Saving the World by John Elkington
RRP: $42.56$37.62Originally published in 1988. Europeans want a better environment. Increasingly, too, they are demanding the products, services, legislation and policies that will provide it. Green Pages reveals what Europe's environmentalists plan to do next and how... -
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies: Volume 1 by James Douglas McCallum
RRP: $47.72$42.48Originally published in 1971, this volume contains papers invited for a conference on economic research relevant to national urban development held in September of the same year. The conference pulled together researchers from both the United Kingdom and... -
The Revaluation of Women's Work by Sheila Lewenhak
RRP: $112.22$97.96This book provides a survey and analysis of the different ways in which women's work is valued throughout the world. It challenges the narrow definition of work as paid work, as that excludes so many of women's activities. It looks at ways in which... -
Environmental Justice as Decolonization: Political Contention, Innovation and Resistance Over Indigenous Fishing Rights in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States by Julia Miller Cantzler
RRP: $148.35$128.17This book corrects the tendency in scholarly work to leave Indigenous peoples on the margins of discussions of environmental inequality by situating them as central activists in struggles to achieve environmental justice. Drawing from archival and... -
U.S. Interests and Global Natural Resources: Energy, Minerals, Food by Emery N. Castle
RRP: $141.90$122.69Originally published in 1983, U.S. Interests and Global Natural Resources explores the links between foreign policy and the global distribution of natural resources paying particular attention to the U.S. This collection of essays delves into the... -
Economics and the Environment: A Materials Balance Approach by Allen V. Kneese
RRP: $141.90$122.69This monograph length report, first published in 1970, originated from a program of research at Resources for the Future that dealt with the management of residuals and of environmental quality. It presents some of the broad concepts that the program was... -
Rural Development and Urban-Bound Migration in Mexico by Arthur Silvers
RRP: $141.90$122.69Rapid growth of urban populations is a major characteristic of economic development and demographic change in developing countries leading to industrialisation and modernisation of major cities. Originally published in 1980, this study focusses on these... -
Climate Change by Michael A. Toman
RRP: $174.15$152.58Over the years, a large and growing literature on the economics of climate change has developed. Within this volume the contributors have included a wide range of journal essays that consider the impact of climate change on specific sectors; goods and... -
Economics of Natural & Environmental Resources by Vernon L. Smith
RRP: $69.65$60.98First written in 1977, Economics of Natural and Environmental Resources presents a collection of articles written in exploration of the economic, social, and ecological problems peculiar to natural and environmental resources. Whilst focusing on the... -
Anthill Economics: Animal Ecosystems and the Human Economy by Nathanial Gronewold
RRP: $25.79$19.38Does modern economic theory violate some basic, fundamental laws of physics? That is the question that award-winning environmental and energy writer Nathanial Gronewold sets out to answer in Anthill Economics. Gronewold points out that the modern school... -
Advanced Mathematical Methods In Environmental And Resource Economics by Anastasios Xepapadeas
RRP: $103.20$89.84The most interesting issues in environmental and resource economics have an explicit temporal dimension, since variables of interest such as pollutants, greenhouse gases, biomass of biological resources, or the stocks of fossil fuels accumulate in the... -
Energy, Foresight and Strategy by Thomas J. Sargent
RRP: $174.15$151.29The essays in Energy, Foresight and Strategy apply rational expectation theory to various energy markets with the intention of discussing issues relevant to analysis and decision making in the whole of the energy field. Originally published in 1985,... -
Issues in U.S International Forest Products Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop by Professor Roger A. Sedjo
RRP: $33.53$29.19After World War two, the United States became integrates into the world forest economy however the complexity of their trade agreements introduced several issues which needed to be addressed by world forestry policy. Originally published in 1981, this... -
Energy Price Shocks and Macroeconomic Performance by Douglas R. Bohi
RRP: $29.66$26.01The 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... -
North Pacific Fisheries Management by Hiroshi Kasahara
RRP: $135.45$117.21In anticipation of the UN Conference of the Law of the Sea taking place in 1973, Dr Kasahara and Dr Burke of the University of Washington first published North Pacific Fisheries Management earlier that year. The conference brought fishery territories to... -
Changing Resource Problems of the Fourth World by Ronald G. Ridker
RRP: $23.21$20.69Climbing food, fertiliser and mineral prices as well as the Arab oil embargo in the seventies had severe economic consequences in developing countries. Originally published in 1976, this study explores the effects of these developments in the fourth... -
The Economics of Global Warming by William Cline
RRP: $25.80$20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881321326Author William ClineFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute for... -
Economics, Game Theory And International Environmental Agreements: The Ca' Foscari Lectures by Henry Tulkens
RRP: $141.90$123.40The science and management of environmental problems is a vast area, comprising both the natural and social sciences, and the multidisciplinary links often make these issues challenging to comprehend. Economics, Game Theory and International... -
Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability by Joel Darmstadter
RRP: $29.66$26.01In preparation for the United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, this study aimed to detail enduring environmental issues that might or might not have been considered at the conference. Originally published... -
Appendix to the Rice Economy of Asia by Beth Rose
RRP: $161.25$139.66Originally published in 1985, Beth Rose's Appendix to the Rice Economy of Asia provides twenty-six tables detailing various rice statistics across Asia from the beginning of the twentieth century through to the 1980's. Statistics presented include; total... -
Pesticide Policy, Production Risk, and Producer Welfare: An Econometric Approach to Applied Welfare Economics by John M. Antle
RRP: $141.90$122.69The use of pesticides to control agricultural pests both benefits farm production and imposes health and environmental costs on producers and society. This title, first published in 1988, includes an application of the author's methodology to tomato... -
Water Pollution: Economics Aspects and Research Needs by Allen V. Kneese
RRP: $141.90$122.69Public agencies and industry will probably spend tens of billions of dollars on new water pollution abatement facilities in the next few decades. Added billions will be spent for the operation of new and existing facilities. How can physical science... -
State Mineral Enterprises: An Investigation into their Impact on International Mineral Markets by Marian Radetzki
RRP: $42.56$37.62State ownership in mineral industries has increased massively from the 1950's affecting the world mineral sector greatly. Originally published in 1985, this study analyses the effects this had on the international market covering topics such as state... -
Incentives for Countryside Management: The Case of Environmentally Sensitive Areas by Martin Whitby
RRP: $100.56$86.44During the last decade European agriculture has been dominated by the issues of overproduction and environmental degradation. Against this background a number of proposals to reduce surpluses and protect the environment have been implemented. Among these...