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  • The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade

    by Edward B Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess Barbier, Joshua Bishop, Bruce Aylward ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation. Based on a report prepared for the ITTO, it looks current and future market conditions at the time of publication, and assesses the impacts on current and future market conditions, and assesses the impacts on tropical forests of ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Paradise Lost?

    The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity

    by Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess Barbier, Carl Folke ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ecology
    Originally published in 1994, Paradise Lost? is the outcome of a unique collaboration between economists and ecologists initiated by the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The book examines how the loss of biodiversity is one of the most serious problems the world faces, and suggests that new, interdisciplinary thinking is required to safeguard both us and the biosphere ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Economics for a Sustainable World

    An Introduction to Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

    by Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess ...
    Written for undergraduate students with little or no exposure to economics, this introductory textbook offers a new perspective on environmental economics for the 21st century. It explains how economics for a sustainable world requires a new approach: accepting that the economy is intrinsically dependent on nature. Drawing on up-to-date case studies from around the globe, the book examines how ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Economics of the SDGs

    Putting the Sustainable Development Goals into Practice

    by Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is the first book that employs economics to develop and apply an analytical framework for assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors explore the historical context for the underlying sustainability concept, develop an economics-based analytical framework for assessing progress towards the SDGs, and discuss the implications for sustainability policy and ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Elephants, Economics and Ivory

    by Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson, David W. Pearce ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    Ivory 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 principal goal. This should be a matter for rejoicing, but nothing is quite so simple.The authors of this book have looked at the overall statistics, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Green Inc.

    Guide to Business and the Environment

    by Frances Cairncross ...
    Frances Cairncross, senior editor of The Economist and author of the best selling Costing the Earth, shows that economic growth does not have to be at the expense of environmental protection. For the poor, growth is essential, to eliminate the threats to health and environmental security that poverty presents. As for the more affluent, they may be unwilling to sacrifice their living standards, ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Climate Casino

    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    by William D. Nordhaus ...
    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Trends and Impacts of Foreign Investment in Developing Country Agriculture: Evidence from Case Studies

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Substantial increases in agricultural investments in developing countries are needed to combat poverty and realize food security and nutrition goals. In order to acquire an in-depth understanding of potential benefits, constraints and costs of foreign investment in agriculture and of the business models that are more conducive to development, FAO has undertaken research in developing countries. ... Read more

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  • Environmental Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If environmental protection is costly, how much should we spend on pollution control? Is it worth reducing pollution to zero, or should we accept some level of pollution because of the economic benefits associated with it? How can we assess the benefits that people get from a less-polluted atmosphere? In broad terms, environmental economics looks at how economic activity and policy affect the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Global Farms Race

    Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, and the Scramble for Food Security

    Edited by Michael Kugelman, Susan L. Levenstein ...
    As we struggle to feed a global population speeding toward 9 billion, we have entered a new phase of the food crisis. Wealthy countries that import much of their food, along with private investors, are racing to buy or lease huge swaths of farmland abroad. The Global Farms Race is the first book to examine this burgeoning trend in all its complexity, considering the implications for investors, ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Spirit of Green

    The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World

    by William D. Nordhaus ...
    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 catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance—requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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