Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With increasing greenhouse gas emissions, we are embarked on an unprecedented experiment with an uncertain outcome for the future of the planet. The Kyoto Protocol serves as an initial step through 20...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Human induced biodiversity loss is greater now than at any time in human history, with extinctions occurring at rates hundreds of times higher than background extinction levels. The field of biodivers...
Author: Barbier, Edward B. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The basic unit of nature - the ecosystem - is a special form of wealth, which we can think of as a stock of natural capital. However, perhaps because this capital is free, we have tended to view it as...
Author: Neuhoff, Karsten Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: At 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 ...
Author: Whitesell, William C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a thorough grounding in the science and economics of climate policy issues and draws key lessons from the longer experiences of central banks in grappling with related challenges. F...
Author: Pearson, Charles S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the central environmental issue of the twenty-first centu...
Author: Cherry, Todd L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P><P>The experimental method is one commonly applied to issues of environmental economics; this book brings together 63 leading researchers in the area and their latest work expl...
Author: World Bank Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is a global, multi-disciplinary effort intended to help identify the key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and p...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 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...
Author: Murray, Barrie Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is now almost twenty years since liberalisation and the introduction of competition was proposed for electricity utilities. Some form of restructuring has been widely adopted around the world to su...
Author: Ellerman, A. Denny / Convery, Frank J. / de Perthuis, Christian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environm...
Author: Conrad, Jon M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1...
Author: Brown, Peter / Garver, Geoffrey Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Our current economic system is unsustainable. Its fundamental elements, unlimited growth, and endless wealth accumulation fly in the face of the fact that the Earth's resources are clearly finite. In ...
Author: Randall, Alan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well-specified games of chance. How then are we to manage the risks, unce...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policy makers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatur...
Description: The Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources covers the essential topics students need to understand environmental and resource problems and their possible solutions. Its unique lecture form...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 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 agricultur...
Description: The 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 agricultur...
Author: Fiksel, Joseph Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Proven methods for achieving environmental excellence while increasing profitability"If your goal is to design and develop environmentally sustainable products that also drive shareholder value, then ...
Author: Fiksel, Joseph Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Proven methods for achieving environmental excellence while increasing profitability"If your goal is to design and develop environmentally sustainable products that also drive shareholder value, then ...
Author: Endres, Alfred Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year. It intentionally does not survey the whole field or pr...
Author: Tilton, John E. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 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 th...
Author: Tilton, John E. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The 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 th...
Author: Brown, Peter G. / Garver, Geoff Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this groundbreaking guide to building an ethical economy, Peter Brown and his colleagues at the Quaker Institute for the Future show readers how a system that embodies the core Quaker principle of ...
Author: Laugeson, Elizabeth A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders uses discussion, handouts, tips and activities to walk parents and therapists through a step-by-step program that has broug...
