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  • Cost-Effective Control of Urban Smog

    The Significance of the Chicago Cap-and-Trade Approach

    by Richard Kosobud, Houston Stokes, Carol Tallarico, Brian Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Containing rigorous hard evidence, this book is of immense practical use to postgraduates, researchers and business communities affected by or working in environmental regulation. The author, a leading name in the environmental economics community, examines the problem of urban smog in cityscapes and the difficulty of achieving cost-effective controls.Analyzing the key areas of urban smog, low ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Read more

    $26.29 CAD

  • Hydrogen: the energy transition in the making!

    by Pierre-Étienne Franc, Pascal Mateo ...
    Translated by Margaret Ganong ...
    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the gradual disappearance of fossil fuels figure among the challenges the planet must face in the years to come. Hydrogen can and indeed must play an important role in the energy transition. Since the technologies that allow for the safe production and use of hydrogen are now mature, this carbon-free molecule can enable the shift to a “clean” world. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Understanding Sustainability Economics

    Towards Pluralism in Economics

    by Peter Soderbaum ...
    This 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 would look like in both theory and practice.The book provides a brief history of economics and looks at the intersection between politics and the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Planet in 2050

    The Lund Discourse of the Future

    Edited by Jill Jäger, Sarah Cornell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    In 2050, the billions of people living on Earth have found a way to manage the planetary system effectively. Everyone has access to adequate food, shelter, and clean water. Human health is no longer considered outside of the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Ecological awareness is an integral part of education. People respond effectively to social and environmental hazards, and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Environmental Economics

    Theory and Policy

    by Alfred Endres ...
    Translated by Iain L. Fraser ...
    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 present every possible topic. Instead, there is a clear focus on the theory of environmental policy and its practical applications. Most of the applied parts of the book deal with the economics of ... Read more

    $80.79 CAD

  • Using Surveys to Value Public Goods

    The Contingent Valuation Method

    by Robert Cameron Mitchell, Richard T. Carson ...
    Economists and others have long believed that by balancing the costs of such public goods as air quality and wilderness areas against their benefits, informed policy choices can be made. But the problem of putting a dollar value on cleaner air or water and other goods not sold in the marketplace has been a major stumbling block. Mitchell and Carson, for reasons presented in this book, argue that ... Read more

    $274.82 CAD

  • Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

    The IZA World of Labor Guide 2017

    Edited by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Olga K. Nottmeyer ...
    Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations of comprehensive evidence-based research with concise ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

  • Gender and Climate Change Financing

    Coming out of the margin

    by Mariama Williams ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender ... Read more

    $166.26 CAD

  • Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building

    Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development

    Edited by Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldach, K V Raju, Kottapalli Sreenivasa Rao, Harald Kaechele, Bill Pritchard ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on “Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development” held during 20–21 May 2015 and jointly organized by the Centre for Ecological ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Discounting and Intergenerational Equity

    by Paul R. Portney, John P. Weyant ...
    The full effects of decisions made today about many environmental policies -including climate change and nuclear waste- will not be felt for many years. For issues with long-term ramifications, analysts often employ discount rates to compare present and future costs and benefits. This is reasonable, and discounting has become a procedure that raises few objections. But are the methods appropriate ... Read more

    $274.82 CAD