Environmental Economics

This book examines the tradeoffs among financing methods for businesses installing onsite photovoltaics (PV). The authors present case studies of PV financing strategies used by two large commercial retailers that have deployed substantial U.S. PV...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088126479Author Joel JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992942014Author Jose T. ManicFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Manic PublishingPublisher Manic PublishingWeight(grams) 199g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990563570Author David HouleFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint David Houle and AssociatesPublisher David Houle and AssociatesWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312544553Author Ray C AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817924553Author Terry L AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hoover Institution PressPublisher Hoover Institution PressWeight(grams) 140g

Ecological economics addresses one of the fundamental flaws in conventional economics-its failure to consider biophysical and social reality in its analyses and equations. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications is an introductory-level...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692659984Author Richard RegisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Richard RegisterPublisher Richard RegisterWeight(grams) 717g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692393536Author David B KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint David B. KingPublisher David B. KingWeight(grams) 236g

From a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why "green thinking" could cure many of the world's most serious problems-from global warming to pandemicsSolving the world's biggest problems-from climate...

Looking for some concrete proposals about how to clean up the world's environmental problems? In The Natural Wealth of Nations, David Roodman argues that a critical but often overlooked source of solutions lies in the prosaic world of government...

This book provides a first-of-its-kind analysis of the emerging global hydrogen economy from the vantage point of one of the world’s biggest energy providers: Saudi Arabia. In 2021, and within the context of the Circular Carbon Economy framework, Saudi...

Finally, a comprehensive book on land conservation financing for community and regional conservation leaders. "A Field Guide to Conservation Finance" provides essential advice on how to tackle the universal obstacle to protecting private land in America:...

It has been said that, in the light of ecological overshoot, that human civilization faces two future possibilities: a Great Decoupling or a Great Collapse. In this book, two distinct positions to achieve the Great Decoupling are critically evaluated:...

The loss of biodiversity has put increasing pressure on the stability and continuity of ecosystems, and their ability to provide goods and services to mankind. This valuable new book addresses this issue and presents an integrated ecological-economic...

This book offers a generic explanation of the political economy of the EU, demonstrating in a clear and comprehensive way how the present institutional set-up makes it vulnerable to lobbyism, corruption and the destruction of social capital. Gert...

Eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith propagated profit maximization as the incentive for businesses to create goods and services that society needs. He argued that free-market competition would ensure consumers get the best quality product at the...

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test scores to higher crime rates—and how we might tackle them todayIt’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057270369Author Frank BoonsFormat PaperbackImprint International BooksPublisher International Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869651521Author Michael RodiFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint LexxionPublisher LexxionWeight(grams) 481g

At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalisation is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the...

Mr. Johnson's thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering an age of economic scarcity. While human demands continue to rise, natural resources, especially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783088751Author James BoyceFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783084296Author Frank AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783080205Author Frank AckermanFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538178140Author Jack BuffingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Presenting critical insights on how economic activity is constrained by the environment's ability to provide material and energy resources, this timely Research Agenda explores how humanity shapes, and is shaped by, environmental change and...

Individuals and corporations increasingly own our world. New property rights now enable the private possession of life and ideas, driven by the profit motive. Genetically engineered crops, patented computer programmes, harvesting of human cells, and the...

With the rising public and political concern about greener production, there is unrelenting pressure on individual companies to mitigate and abate pollution and adopt cleaner technologies. Governments adopt several types of environmental policies and...

During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a...

This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA). It examines four dimensions of federal water pollution control policy in the United States: limits...

What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction and social inequality today, arguing that it has to be abolished...

Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics. Students and lecturers alike are rejecting the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterise the mainstream. They...

How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted cities Over the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy...

Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593421345Author John DoerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 522g

Many of the frontiers of environmental economics research are at the interface of large-scale and long-term environmental change with national and global economic systems. This is also where some of the most of challenging environmental policy issues...

Much applied environmental economics is concerned with the valuation of changes in environmental quality. Obtaining reliable valuation estimates requires attention to theoretical and econometric issues that are often quite subtle. Volume 2 of the...

Waste Biorefineries: Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes presents a detailed guide to the design of energy-efficient and cost-effective waste-integrated biorefineries. Integrating thermochemical processing of waste with...

Following 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...