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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations Pushpam Kumar 9780415501088
RRP: £58.99£51.48Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination and flood control, all of which are dependent on biodiversity. They are... -
Economic Management of Marine Living Resources: A Practical Introduction by David Whitmarsh
RRP: £49.99£43.50This 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... -
Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures: Four case studies by Kerry Turner
RRP: £135.00£117.28Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and... -
Understanding Sustainability Economics: Towards Pluralism in Economics Peter Soderbaum 9781844076277
RRP: £39.99£35.06This highly readable yet challenging book provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing. Most importantly, it articulates what an alternative economics for sustainability... -
Inclusive Wealth Report 2014: Measuring Progress toward Sustainability by United Nations University
RRP: £41.99£36.89Economic production indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI) fail to reflect the state of natural resources or ecological conditions and both focus exclusively on the short term. The Inclusive Wealth Report... -
Controlling Asbestos in Buildings: An Economic Investigation Donald N. Dewees 9781138961029
RRP: £15.99£14.41Asbestos dust is well-known for causing cancer and other life-threatening illnesses yet still contaminates countless schools, factories and office buildings. This raises the issue of the best way to deal with Asbestos; immediate removal, containment or... -
Natural Gas Markets After Deregulation: Methods of Analysis and Research Needs by Harry G. Broadman
RRP: £36.99£32.53Originally published in 1983, Broadman and Montgomery present an agenda for further research into deregulated natural gas markets by relating natural gas production, transmission and distribution with the economic function of contracts and local... -
Mainstreaming Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services into Development Policy by Pushpam Kumar
RRP: £135.00£117.68This 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... -
China's Water Pollution Problems by Claudio O. Delang
RRP: £21.99£19.34Water pollution is one of the most serious problems plaguing China today with millions of citizens drinking water unfit for consumption. These abysmal conditions have fuelled increasing social discontent, as people become more concerned by the need to... -
Democracy and Public Administration by Richard C. Box
RRP: £49.99£43.50The true measure of the successful practice of public service is its ability to remain faithful to the tenets of democratic society. This introductory text links the practice of public administration to the core concepts of American democracy. It covers... -
Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure: The Case of PROPER in Indonesia by Shakeb Afsah
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure... -
Social and Economic Benefits of Protected Areas: An Assessment Guide by Marianne Kettunen
RRP: £135.00£117.68Protected 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... -
Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts Philippe Le Billon (University of British Colombia, Canada) 9780415379700
RRP: £24.99£21.81A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars from... -
Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil: Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
RRP: £41.99£36.75Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its position as a global leader and even as a 'model' of commercial, integrated crop production. The country is now seen as an agricultural powerhouse that has a lot... -
Pricing the Planet: Economic Analysis for Sustainable Development by Peter May
RRP: £30.00£23.29The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scientists, economists, planners, energy specialists, and other professionals from around the world to... -
Resource And Environmental Economics: Modern Issues And Applications by Clement A. Tisdell
RRP: £51.00£45.02This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental... -
Ecological Economics from the Ground Up Hali Healy 9781849713993
RRP: £47.99£42.21Ecological 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,... -
Environmental Economics and Sustainability Brian Chi-ang Lin 9781119328209
RRP: £20.75£18.32Environmental Economics and Sustainability presents a collection of peer-reviewed research articles contributed by international experts that reveal the current state of our knowledge in the field of environmental economics. Presents the latest research... -
Mathematical Models and Environmental Change: Case Studies in Long Term Management by Douglas J. Crookes
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book demonstrates how mathematical models constructed in system dynamics modelling platforms, such as Vensim, can be used for long term management of environmental change. It is divided into two sections, with the first dedicated to theory, where... -
Inland Waterway Transportation: Studies in Public and Private Management and Investment Decisions by Charles W. Howe
RRP: £36.99£32.53Inland Waterway Transportation explores how tools of economic analysis can improve the efficiency of both public and private investment in inland waterway transportation. Originally published in 1969, this study investigates how waterway transportation... -
Technical Change, Relative Prices, and Environmental Resource Evaluation by V. Kerry Smith
RRP: £37.99£33.38Originally published in 1974, Technical Change, Relative Prices, and Environmental Resource Evaluation explores the relationship between natural environmental resources and the differential implications of technological change and relative price... -
The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis Karine Nyborg 9781138215092
RRP: £53.99£46.87Putting a price tag on the environment is controversial. This book discusses ethical and political aspects of environmental cost-benefit analysis: why controversies must be expected, why they should be taken seriously, and how they can be handled in... -
Climate Policy after Copenhagen: The Role of Carbon Pricing Karsten Neuhoff 9781107401419
RRP: £26.99£22.80At the UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, 117 heads of state concluded that low-carbon development is necessary in order to combat climate change. However, they also understood that transition to a low-carbon economy requires the implementation of a... -
Elephants, Economics and Ivory by Edward B. Barbier
RRP: £43.99£38.44Ivory 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... -
People, Food and Resources by Sir Kenneth Blaxter
RRP: £50.99£45.85The current problems of sub-Saharan peoples who are subject to recurrent famine and shortages of food are only one facet of a wider problem which confronts the peoples of the world. This problem, which is a vast in scale, concerns the relationship... -
The Economics of Air Pollution in China: Achieving Better and Cleaner Growth by Jun Ma
RRP: £62.00£48.22Suffocating smog regularly envelops Chinese metropolises from Beijing to Shanghai, clouding the future prospect of China's growth sustainability. Air pollutants do not discriminate between the rich and the poor, the politician and the "average Joe." They... -
Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies by John A. Dixon
RRP: £135.00£117.68Drylands 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... -
Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects by John A. Dixon
RRP: £135.00£117.28It 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... -
Valuing Ecosystem Services: The Case of Multi-functional Wetlands by R. Kerry Turner
RRP: £135.00£117.68Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations... -
Environmental Economics: A Theoretical Inquiry by Karl-Goran Maler
RRP: £115.00£99.36First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781617260254Author Karl-Goran MalerFormat HardbackPage Count 257Imprint Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press)Publisher Taylor &... -
Transforming Energy Systems: Economics, Policies and Change Steven Fries 9781800370364
£110.61Recognizing the urgent need to transform energy systems to low-carbon alternatives, this timely book offers evidenced and credible ways to accelerate actions towards meeting the Paris Agreement goals and achieving net zero emissions. Steven Fries... -
A History of Technology and Environment: From stone tools to ecological crisis by Edward L. Golding
RRP: £44.99£39.28This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities. It offers a new way of thinking about the overall origins of environmental problems. Combining approaches drawn... -
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges by K. N. Ninan
RRP: £43.99£38.84This 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... -
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... -
Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations: The Sociology and Technology of Energy by Allan Mazur
RRP: £41.99£36.75Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the... -
The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment by Robert L. Nadeau 9780231127981
RRP: £55.00£42.91Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from... -
Environmental Economics For Non-economists: Techniques And Policies For Sustainable Development (2nd Edition) by John Asafu-Adjaye 9789812561237
RRP: £65.00£56.97Environmental economics, which used to be on the periphery of the economics discipline, is fast becoming mainstream as concern for the environment grows. Practitioners in other disciplines (e.g. engineering, science, natural resource management, social... -
Marxism And Ecological Economics: Toward A Red And Green Poltical Economy: Historical Materialism, Volume 11 by Paul Burkett
RRP: £35.00£23.04This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist point of view, and shows how Marxist political economy can make a substantial contribution to ecological economics. The analysis is developed in terms of nature and... -
Driven by Demand: How Energy Gets its Power by Jimmy Y. Jia 9781107507104
RRP: £30.99£26.77Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact of energy decisions. Discussions about energy often neglect important historical lessons about previous... -
Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World by James Sumberg
RRP: £32.99£29.16The 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...