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State Mineral Enterprises: An Investigation into their Impact on International Mineral Markets by Marian Radetzki
RRP: £32.99£29.16State 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: £77.95£67.01During 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... -
Local Communities and the Mining Industry: Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities by Nicolas D. Brunet
RRP: £125.00£107.86explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities contributes towards the development of practical wisdom, collective understanding, common sense, and prudence required for the mining sector... -
Covid-19 Pandemic And Energy Markets: Commodity Markets, Cryptocurrencies And Electricity Consumption Under The Covid-19 by Khaled Guesmi
RRP: £70.00£60.84The World Health Organization confirmed COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, causing vast impact on international economy. The coronavirus pandemic has given rise to an unprecedented global health and economic crises. Apart from the toll of early... -
Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Model of Economic Development by Richard G. Wilkinson
RRP: £105.00£90.86Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societies develop - why some are primitive and others advanced. It demonstrates that the pursuit of progress is not... -
Towards Ecological Taxation: The Efficacy of Emissions-Related Motor Taxation by David Russell
RRP: £35.99£32.09Governments around the world are struggling to meet their commitments to achieve targets relating to reductions in greenhouse gases. Many writers advocating ways to achieve these targets offer radical but often impractical approaches that do not offer a... -
Economic Theory and Global Warming by Hirofumi Uzawa
RRP: £28.99£24.42In this book, Professor Uzawa modifies and extends the theoretical premises of orthodox economic theory to those broad enough to be capable of analyzing the phenomena related to environmental disequilibrium, particularly global warming, and of finding... -
Greening India's Growth: Costs, Valuations and Trade-offs by Muthukumara Mani
RRP: £135.00£117.28India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty. But this may come at a steep cost to its environment and natural resources. This insightful book analyses India's growth from an economic perspective and... -
Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources by Herman Daly
RRP: £105.00£88.98It's time for a new kind of economy We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the... -
China's Soil Pollution and Degradation Problems by Claudio O. Delang
RRP: £21.99£19.34China's air pollution is infamous. The haze can make it impossible to see buildings across the street, and the pollution forces schools to close and creates health and morbidity problems, in addition to tremendous environmental degradation. However,... -
Supply and Competition in Minor Metals by David B. Brooks
RRP: £36.99£32.53An interest in the minor metals - termed "minor" as their annual production is relatively small - had been developing for many years. This study, first published in 1965, examines patterns of supply that can be identified as underlying the... -
The Rice Economy of Asia by Randolph Barker
RRP: £34.99£31.25To millions of people in the world, rice is the center of existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II,... -
Global Warming and Agriculture - Impact Estimates by Country by William Cline
RRP: £17.99£14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881324037Author William ClineFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute for... -
Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining place in an unsettled world by Gerard Kuperus
RRP: £47.99£41.81While our world is characterized by mobility, global interactions, and increasing knowledge, we are facing serious challenges regarding the knowledge of the places around us. We understand and navigate our surroundings by relying on advanced technologies... -
Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations by Norma M. Riccucci
RRP: £43.99£38.84The readings in this volume will enlighten and enliven the contents of any standard public administration text covering human resource management. Selected mainly from the pages of Public Administration Review and Review of Public Personnel... -
The Greening of US Free Trade Agreements: From NAFTA to the Present Day Linda Allen 9780367518820
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the integration of environmental policies into US free trade agreements. The work focuses on the evolution of the design of environmental policies and analyzes their effectiveness. Starting with the... -
Culture and Economics in the Global Community: A Framework for Socioeconomic Development by Kensei Hiwaki
RRP: £135.00£117.68Many of the concepts, values and basic assumptions on which 'modern' economic and business theory is based do not translate into or convey the same meaning in non-European languages or non-Western cultures as they do in Western societies. This results in... -
Pricing Carbon Emissions: Economic Reality and Utopia Aviel Verbruggen 9781032003641
RRP: £37.99£33.38Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions, exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS).After... -
Carbon Conundrum: How to Save Climate Change Policy from Government Failure: 2022 by Philip Booth
RRP: £12.50£11.55Politicians around the world have signed up to achieving carbon net zero by 2050. And several countries, including the UK and those in the EU, have struck a 'new green deal'. This puts environmental taxes and subsidies at the heart of energy policy. But... -
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making by Patrick ten Brink
RRP: £54.99£48.72The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global economic benefits of biodiversity, to highlight the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem... -
Carbon Abatement Costs and Climate Change Finance by William Cline
RRP: £22.50£17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881326079Author William ClineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute for... -
Global Warming and the World Trading System by Steve Charnovitz
RRP: £19.95£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881324280Author Steve CharnovitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute... -
Sustaining Prosperity, Nature and Wellbeing: What do the Indicators Tell Us? Peter Bartelmus 9780815351740
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book explores what is needed for an overall evaluation of the prosperity and wellbeing of people within a framework of sustaining the economy, environment and development.The book begins by assessing the validity of available data, indicators and... -
Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Summary for Policymakers by Joseph E. Aldy
RRP: £29.99£25.94The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. It draws upon... -
An International Legal Framework for Geoengineering: Managing the Risks of an Emerging Technology by Haomiao Du
RRP: £41.99£36.75Geoengineering provides new possibilities for humans to deal with dangerous climate change and its effects but at the same time creates new risks to the planet. This book responds to the challenges geoengineering poses to International Law by identifying... -
Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems Craig R. Allen 9780231144452
RRP: £42.00£37.81Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape structure, ecologists began to explore the theoretical and applied consequences of discontinuities in ecosystems... -
The Economics of Water Resources: A Comprehensive Approach by Ariel Dinar
RRP: £29.99£25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316615072Author Ariel DinarFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Science and Management of Uncertainty: Dealing with Doubt in Natural Resource Management by Bruce G. Marcot
RRP: £105.00£90.86Uncertainty can take many forms, can be represented in many ways, and can have important implications in decision-making and policy development. This book provides a rigorous scientific framework for dealing with uncertainty in real-world situations, and... -
International Climate Change Law and Policy: Cultural Legitimacy in Adaptation and Mitigation by Thoko Kaime
RRP: £43.99£38.44Climate change poses fundamental and varied challenges to all communities across the globe. The adaptation and mitigation strategies proposed by governments and non-governmental organisations are likely to require radical and fundamental shifts in... -
Applied Environmental Economics: A GIS Approach to Cost-Benefit Analysis by I. J. Bateman
RRP: £36.99£33.95The complex real-world interactions between the economy and the environment form both the focus of and main barrier to applied research within the field of environmental economics. However, geographical information systems (GIS) allow economists to... -
Ending Dirty Energy Policy: Prelude to Climate Change by Joseph P. Tomain
RRP: £95.00£68.22Climate change presents the United States, and the world, with regulatory problems of a magnitude, complexity and scope unseen before. The United States, however, particularly after the mid-term elections of 2010, lacks the political will necessary to... -
Sustainability in European Transport Policy by Matthew Humphreys
RRP: £41.99£36.75The construction of the European Economic Communities in 1950 primarily set out to build an integrated economic zone in which national borders were, to a large extent, overcome. The ability of persons and goods to move freely within the economic zone was... -
Common Pool Resources: Strategic Behavior, Inefficiencies, and Incomplete Information by Ana Espinola-Arredondo
RRP: £30.99£22.85Common Pool Resources include, for instance, fishing grounds, irrigation systems, forests and the atmosphere. Now more than ever, how we responsibly share and use those goods is a vital issue. This textbook introduces students of economics, business and... -
Research in Forest Economics and Forest Policy by Marion Clawson
RRP: £53.99£47.87In order to fill a growing need for research into forestry issues, Resources for the future held a symposium in 1977.Orignally published in the same year, all papers in this collection were written specifically for this symposium to highlight the most... -
High Energy Costs: Uneven, Unfair, Unavoidable? by Hans H. Landsberg
RRP: £22.99£20.16High energy prices affect nearly the whole of the American population, arguably affecting some consumer groups more than others. Although originally published in 1981, the issues explored in this study such as who is affected most by energy price... -
Our Uncommon Heritage: Biodiversity Change, Ecosystem Services, and Human Wellbeing by Charles Perrings
RRP: £41.99£26.83Biodiversity change is the biggest environmental problem of our time. It leads to much more than species extinctions, affecting the food we eat, the diseases we face, our vulnerability to fire and flood, and our ability to adapt to climate change. Our... -
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Change Per-Olov Johansson (Stockholm School of Economics) 9780521447928
RRP: £32.99£30.04This book is an advanced text in applied welfare economics and its application to environmental economics. The author goes far beyond the existing literature on the valuation of environmental benefits, deriving sets of cost-benefit rules which can be... -
Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach Terry L. Anderson 9780521279659
RRP: £26.99£22.80Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares... -
Green Keynesianism and the Global Financial Crisis Kyla Tienhaara (Queens University, Canada.) 9780367430214
RRP: £39.99£35.06It is widely accepted that limiting climate change to 2 DegreesC will require substantial and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. However, the dominance of market fundamentalism in economic thinking for the past three... -
Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis
RRP: £75.00£70.51The term "degrowth" has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. Degrowth argues that economic growth is no longer desirable - its costs exceed its benefits...