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  • Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers, Forest Conservation and Climate Change

    by Silvia Irawan, Luca Tacconi ...
    Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IFTs) are an innovative way to create incentives for local public actors to support conservation. This book contributes to the debate about how to conserve tropical forests by implementing mechanisms for reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+).With Indonesia as a case study, the authors adopt an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on political ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Leap

    How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy

    by Chris Turner ...
    In this groundbreaking report from the leading edge of the emerging sustainable economy, bestselling author Chris Turner charts the way to our brightest possible future.From financial collapse to climate chaos to the end of cheap and easy oil, we have reached the end of the line for business as usual. The good news? The tools already exist to reinvent our economy in ways that both eliminate our ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Bioeconomics of Invasive Species

    Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy, and Management

    Edited by Reuben P. Keller, David M. Lodge, Mark A. Lewis, Jason F. Shogren ...
    Biological invasions are one of the strongest drivers of global environmental change, and invasive species are now often in the public discourse. At the same time, economists have begun to take a real interest in determining how invasive species interact with economic systems, and how invaders should be controlled to optimize societal wealth. Although the work from ecologists and economists have ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Energy and the Wealth of Nations

    Understanding the Biophysical Economy

    by Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, ... Read more

    $98.69 CAD

  • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations

    Edited by Pushpam Kumar ...
    Series series TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
    Human 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 predominantly public goods with limited or no markets and do not command any price in the conventional economic system, so their loss is often not ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Future of Helium as a Natural Resource

    Edited by Richard Clarke, Bartek Glowacki, William Nuttall ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    The book reveals the changing dynamics of the helium industry on both the supply-side and the demand-side. The helium industry has a long-term future and this important gas will have a role to play for many decades to come. Major new users of helium are expected to enter the market, especially in nuclear energy (both fission and fusion). Prices and volumes supplied and expected to rise and this ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Sustainability Economics

    An Introduction

    by Peter Bartelmus ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environmental and ecological economics and optimal growth theory, sustainability remains a hazy and complex subject.The author set out with two objectives: one, to bring some order into the proliferating measures, models and management of sustainability; and ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD

  • Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development

    Facts, Policy Analysis, and Applications

    by Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart ...
    Climate change and variability has become the primary environmental concern of the 21st Century. The potential impacts and mitigation of climate change need to be analyzed within the context of sustainable development. Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development presents a condensed and accessible review of the latest state-of-the-art assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • China's Water Pollution Problems

    by Claudio Delang ...
    Water 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 address the pressing issues of water pollution, scarcity, and waste management.This book describes how and why China has ended up in such a dire ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

    Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era

    Edited by Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser ...
    Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary

    An Economic History

    by Viktor Pál ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously. Further, this book explains why this process was ultimately a failure. By exploring the environmental pre-history of communist Hungary before analyzing the economic development of the Kádár regime, Pál investigates ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD