Environmental economics Books
Columbia University Press Confronting the Climate Challenge
Book SynopsisConfronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of U.S. climate-policy options. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can reduce emissions at low cost but also can avoid burdening low-income households or especially vulnerable industries.Trade ReviewCurbing greenhouse gases is one of the most challenging issues we face. While the benefits are potentially huge, developing policies to keep costs down is urgent. Goulder and Hafstead's well-written and accessible book carefully explains the issue and evaluates the main policy proposals. It is a must read for anyone interested in the details of climate mitigation. I strongly recommend it. -- Robert Mendelsohn, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI: Introduction And Analytical Background1. Introduction2. Climate Policy, Fiscal Interactions, and Economic OutcomesII: The Model’s Structure, Inputs, and Baseline Output3. Structure of the E3 Model4. Data, Parameters, and the Reference Case PathIII: Policy Approaches And Outcomes5. Two Approaches to Carbon Dioxide Emissions Pricing: A Carbon Tax and a Cap-And-Trade System6. Alternatives to Emissions Pricing: A Clean Energy Standard and a Gasoline Tax Increase7. Distribution of Policy Impacts Across Industries and HouseholdsIV: Conclusions8. Key InsightsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CAppendix DNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press What Really Counts
Book SynopsisWhat Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits. Ronald Colman recounts two decades of working with three governments to adopt measures capable of quantifying factors that GDP overlooks.Trade ReviewThis moving firsthand saga explains why brilliant solutions so often languish on the periphery of public policy. What Really Counts is the compelling and inspiring story of a life dedicated to promoting holistic progress measures. It charts a practical and painfully learned path to the saner sustainable future we all need. -- Jigmi Y. Thinley, former prime minister of BhutanWhat Really Counts is a fantastic journey on a topic that should be at the core of the transformation of our economies and societies. We urgently need this perspective, especially after our COVID-19 shutdowns, to take our world onto a sustainable development path. -- Enrico Giovannini, Italian minister for sustainable infrastructures and mobility and former OECD chief statisticianRonald Colman is an unstoppable pioneer recognizing the need to “measure what you treasure.” His roadmap, built on creating a Genuine Progress Index in Canada and on his many years working with the government of Bhutan, is a must-read for anyone interested in building a future that works for all. A page-turner! -- Mathis Wackernagel, cocreator of the Ecological Footprint and cofounder of the Global Footprint NetworkUnique, important, compelling, and timely, What Really Counts gets below the surface of what keeps our misguided reliance on GDP in place. Colman uncovers the political forces and vested interests involved with GDP measures and how they work together to stifle meaningful change toward a sustainable well-being economy and planet. -- Robert Costanza, University College London, cofounder of the field of ecological economicsI had the pleasure of working with Ronald Colman on the establishment of GPI Atlantic. He worked tirelessly on this mission in Nova Scotia and Bhutan, producing first-class, thoroughly researched reports that push for political change on levels from local to international. This book is timely and readable in its understanding measures of progress in terms of social and intergenerational equity. -- Hans Messinger, former director of industry measures, Statistics CanadaTable of ContentsA Note to Readers: Coronavirus—a Turning Point for Humanity?Prologue1. The Magic Number2. Counting What Matters3. A Nova Scotia Start4. The New Measures in Action5. Scaling Up6. Challenges Behind the Scenes7. Genuine Progress Meets Politics8. A New Zealand Interlude9. Invitation to Bhutan10. (Mis)Measuring Gross National Happiness11. Educating for Gross National Happiness12. The Gap Between Words and Action13. A “New Economic Paradigm” for the World14. Can Genuine Progress Really Happen?15. Forging a New EconomyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£23.40
Columbia University Press Environmentally Sustainable Growth
Book SynopsisThis book offers a positive vision of an environmentally sustainable future and lays out the steps ahead as we make the transition. Steven Cohen explores the causes of environmental degradation and examines what sustainability looks like in practice.Trade ReviewAs a preeminent scholar of environmental science and policy, Steven Cohen is uniquely qualified to assess the major question of this extraordinary book: ‘How do we realistically get from the current economic paradigm to one that permits economic growth while protecting the planet’s ecosystems?’ With rigor and nuance, he analyzes the challenges, assesses the competing ideological positions, and proposes pragmatic responses that can help us achieve a growing economy within the limits of environmental sustainability. His levelheaded and well-founded evaluations provide workable responses to the competing economic and environmental forces that face society. I salute his optimistic outlook and urge that stakeholders at all levels heed his carefully balanced recommendations. -- Michael M. Crow, president and professor of science and technology policy, Arizona State UniversityEnvironmentally Sustainable Growth offers a comprehensive yet digestible approach to building a sustainable future. Cohen’s deep expertise working in the field of environmental sustainability shines through in this book. He synthesizes several decades of knowledge while incorporating timely lessons and examples that illustrate his pragmatic approach. These lessons include strategic investments in infrastructure, technology, industrial processes, political processes, and organizational capacity, which are all necessary for overcoming the barriers we face in achieving a sustainable future. Anyone interested in understanding how to minimize the impacts of human consumption and production on environmental health without sacrificing the vibrancy of our economy should read Environmentally Sustainable Growth. -- Tanya Heikkila, codirector of the Center for Policy and Democracy, University of Colorado DenverEnvironmentally Sustainable Growth offers an ambitious framework and road map for how societies can transform themselves to become more sustainable. An original and significant contribution to the literature on sustainable development. -- Sheldon Kamieniecki, dean emeritus, Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa CruzCohen does a marvelous job of illustrating case examples, drawing on years of research on environmental sustainability, stressing especially those issues most relevant to younger generations. Libraries with collections on environmental studies, the sciences, and natural resource policy and management should have a copy of this text. Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Highly recommended. * American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Defining and Understanding Environmental Sustainability2. The Current State of Environmental Degradation3. The Fundamental Causes of Environmental Degradation4. A Strategy for Reducing Pollution and Growing a Renewable Resource-Based Economy5. Building Public Sector Infrastructure to Support Environmental Sustainability6. Changing the Politics and Communication of Environmental SustainabilityConclusion: The Long Transition to Environmental Sustainability Is Already UnderwayIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Environmentally Sustainable Growth
Book SynopsisThis book offers a positive vision of an environmentally sustainable future and lays out the steps ahead as we make the transition. Steven Cohen explores the causes of environmental degradation and examines what sustainability looks like in practice.Trade ReviewAs a preeminent scholar of environmental science and policy, Steven Cohen is uniquely qualified to assess the major question of this extraordinary book: ‘How do we realistically get from the current economic paradigm to one that permits economic growth while protecting the planet’s ecosystems?’ With rigor and nuance, he analyzes the challenges, assesses the competing ideological positions, and proposes pragmatic responses that can help us achieve a growing economy within the limits of environmental sustainability. His levelheaded and well-founded evaluations provide workable responses to the competing economic and environmental forces that face society. I salute his optimistic outlook and urge that stakeholders at all levels heed his carefully balanced recommendations. -- Michael M. Crow, president and professor of science and technology policy, Arizona State UniversityEnvironmentally Sustainable Growth offers a comprehensive yet digestible approach to building a sustainable future. Cohen’s deep expertise working in the field of environmental sustainability shines through in this book. He synthesizes several decades of knowledge while incorporating timely lessons and examples that illustrate his pragmatic approach. These lessons include strategic investments in infrastructure, technology, industrial processes, political processes, and organizational capacity, which are all necessary for overcoming the barriers we face in achieving a sustainable future. Anyone interested in understanding how to minimize the impacts of human consumption and production on environmental health without sacrificing the vibrancy of our economy should read Environmentally Sustainable Growth. -- Tanya Heikkila, codirector of the Center for Policy and Democracy, University of Colorado DenverEnvironmentally Sustainable Growth offers an ambitious framework and road map for how societies can transform themselves to become more sustainable. An original and significant contribution to the literature on sustainable development. -- Sheldon Kamieniecki, dean emeritus, Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa CruzCohen does a marvelous job of illustrating case examples, drawing on years of research on environmental sustainability, stressing especially those issues most relevant to younger generations. Libraries with collections on environmental studies, the sciences, and natural resource policy and management should have a copy of this text. Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Highly recommended. * American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Defining and Understanding Environmental Sustainability2. The Current State of Environmental Degradation3. The Fundamental Causes of Environmental Degradation4. A Strategy for Reducing Pollution and Growing a Renewable Resource-Based Economy5. Building Public Sector Infrastructure to Support Environmental Sustainability6. Changing the Politics and Communication of Environmental SustainabilityConclusion: The Long Transition to Environmental Sustainability Is Already UnderwayIndex
£22.50
Yale University Press Water 4.0
Book SynopsisThe little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions about the future, we need to understand the three revolutions in urban water systems that have occurred over the past 2,500 years and the technologies that will remake the system. The author starts by describing Water 1.0, the early Roman aqueducts, fountains, and sewers that made dense urban living feasible. He then details the development of drinking water and sewage treatment systemsthe second and third revolutions in urban water. He offers an insider's look at current systems that rely on reservoirs, underground pipe networks, treatment plants, and storm sewers to provide water that is safe to drink, before addressing how these water systems will have to be reinvented. For everyone who cares about reliable, clean, abundant water, this book is essential reading.Trade Review“Sedlak . . . has contributed a gem to the growing shelf of books on the emerging crisis surrounding water. . . . An erudite romp through two millennia of water and sanitation practice and technology.”—Margaret Catley-Carlson, NatureRecipient of the National Water Research Institute’s Clarke Prize in 2014Winner of the 2014 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Engineering & Technology category“David Sedlak offers a clear window into the past and a positive vision of the future for one of our most precious resources: drinking water. Using tools of history, engineering, and story-telling, he gives us hope that society will continue to find new and innovative ways of providing this precious resource for all.”—Peter Gleick, editor of The World’s Water series“Water 4.0 captures an important story of the evolution of our current urban systems as well as discussing future options that are being researched today.”—Michael C. Kavanaugh, principal, Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., and member, National Academy of Engineering“One of the great failings of the academic world is that we rarely attempt to inform the public in any detail about our research. Water 4.0 presents an interesting and informative approach to educating the public on an abbreviated history of water.”—William J. Cooper, University of California, Irvine“By translating a serious and essential topic into something more catchy and fascinating than a whodunit novel, David Sedlak has provided us with an intriguing history of human water use. Packed with riveting stories and examples, the book helps us appreciate from where we have come and where we need to go.”—Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network“If you’ve ever wondered where your tap water comes from—and what’s still in it when you drink—Sedlak’s deeply-informed historical narrative provides the answers. Water 4.0 offers the clearest vision yet of how we’ll get our water in the future.”—Steven Solomon, author of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, & Civilization“Sedlak . . . has contributed a gem to the growing shelf of books on the emerging crisis surrounding water. . . . An erudite romp through two millennia of water and sanitation practice and technology.”—Margaret Catley-Carlson, Nature -- Margaret Catley-Carlson * Nature *
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WW Norton & Co Floating Coast
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge.Trade Review"In Floating Coast, Bathsheba Demouth has written a brilliant hybrid book about one of the most fragile and forgotten of Anthropocene front-line territories, the Bering Strait. Uniting ecology, anthropology, reportage and more, this is a superb work of environmental history, often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research, intense looking and listening, and its clear ethical vision." -- Robert Macfarlane"... Demuth has now herself written the history she calls for. Floating Coast is a historian’s Moby Dick, a great white whale of a book that spans centuries and links landscapes, living beings, and the flux of time, into a marvelously readable narrative." -- Amitav Ghosh"Floating Coast is an extraordinary piece of history writing, seamlessly weaving together disparate elements. It is astonishingly rich in ethnographic detail, ecological precision, economic circumstance and historical texture." -- Nature"Floating Coast is rich, well researched and illuminating. It keeps under readers’ feet the vastness of Demuth’s expertise, as solid as a land bridge." -- The International New York Times"Demuth, an environmental historian at Brown University, has reaped rich and fascinating material from the oral history of the indigenous Beringians recorded by ethnographers." -- Literary Review"I have also greatly enjoyed and learned from... Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast: An Environmental History of The Bering Strait..." -- Robert Macfarlane, The Big Issue’s Books of the Year 2019 - The Big Issue
£20.89
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of international policy on climate and the environment.Trade Review“Falkner has successfully brought together top scholars from several disciplines in a single, important book that will interest policy makers and students for years to come. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels.” (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface xiii Part I Global Policy Challenges 1 1 Global Climate Change 3Matthew J. Hoffmann 2 Global Water Governance 19Joyeeta Gupta 3 Biodiversity and Conservation 37Stuart Harrop 4 Marine Environment Protection 53Markus Salomon 5 Deforestation 72David Humphreys 6 Biotechnology and Biosafety 89Aarti Gupta 7 Global Chemicals Politics and Policy 107Henrik Selin Part II Concepts and Approaches 125 8 Global Environmental Norms 127Steven Bernstein 9 Global Governance 146Johannes Stripple and Hannes Stephan 10 Global Environmental Security 163Simon Dalby 11 International Environmental Law 179Daniel Bodansky 12 Green Growth 197Michael Jacobs 13 Sustainable Consumption 215Doris Fuchs 14 Climate Change Justice 231Edward Page Part III Global Actors, Institutions, and Processes 249 15 The Nation-State, International Society, and the Global Environment 251Robert Falkner 16 Transnational Environmental Activism 268Susan Park 17 Business as a Global Actor 286Jennifer Clapp and Jonas Meckling 18 International Regime Effectiveness 304Steinar Andresen 19 Strengthening the United Nations 320Steffen Bauer 20 International Negotiations 339Radoslav S. Dimitrov 21 Regionalism and Environmental Governance 358Miranda Schreurs Part IV Global Economy and Policy 375 22 Globalization 377Peter Newell 23 Private Regulation in Global Environmental Governance 394Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen 24 International Trade, the Environment, and Climate Change 412Nico Jaspers and Robert Falkner 25 Global Finance and the Environment 428Christopher Wright 26 Energy Policy and Climate Change 446Benjamin K. Sovacool 27 Economic Instruments for Climate Change 468Jonas Meckling and Cameron Hepburn 28 International Aid and Adaptation to Climate Change 486Jessica M. Ayers and Achala Chandani Abeysinghe Index 507
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Evolutions in Sustainable Investing
Book SynopsisSustainable Investing is fast becoming an essential method of generating long-term returns, moving beyond the negative approaches to socially responsible investing that have dominated the field. This book, our second on the subject, provides over 15 case studies of leading global investors and companies demonstrating how they successfully apply sustainability aspects to their core strategies. Learn from prominent thought leaders Dan Esty and Paul Hawken among others who have contributed key chapters. Our chapter on performance shows clearly how these strategies have been working once negative approaches are parsed out by those examining fund returns. This book also examines in great depth what data exists, and what''s on the horizon, to best measure & capture sustainability successfully. Regional perspectives, including 3 chapters on Asia, and focuses on Canada, Australia, Africa & India are also included, as is a look across asset classes. Sustainable Investing, when performTrade ReviewA genuinely comprehensive account...a clear road map for beginners and experienced investment practitioners alike Ethical CorporationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xix About the Editor xxi About the Contributors xxiii Introduction xxxv Chapter 1 The Sustainability Imperative 1David A. Lubin and Daniel C. Esty Sustainability: A Business Megatrend 1 Getting the Vision Right 3 Getting the Execution Right 4 Building a Sustainability Performance System 6 Summary 8 Note 9 Chapter 2 Jupiter Ecology 11Mark L. Trevitt Roots of the Fund 11 Jupiter Ecology’s Investment Process 12 Good Governance 16 Building a Following 17 Building on Firm Foundations 18 Assessing Companies for the Long Term 19 Voting and Engagement: Participating in the Process of Change 20 Finding Great Green Companies 21 Fund Performance 24 Notes 25 Chapter 3 A Predictor of Performance 27Paul Hawken Investment in Natural Capitalism 27 Discovering Opportunities 28 Identifying the Companies of the Future 30 Summary 32 Chapter 4 Highwater Global 35Alexis van Gelder, Dean Martucci, and Erika Kimball Hawken Takes on Domini 36 Fund Drivers Based on Global Sustainable Themes 38 Finding Investment Opportunities 38 Sustainable Investing Is Responsible Investing 44 Summary 45 Notes 46 Chapter 5 Further Context 47Cary Krosinsky Starting Point for Measuring Sustainability 48 Sustainability 2.0’s Five Factors 49 Summary 51 Notes 51 Chapter 6 Sustainable Asset Management 53Thomas O. Murtha and Ashley Hamilton SAM’s Origins and Evolution 54 Building a Sustainable Investing Practice: Basic Business Segments 56 Measuring Intangibles: Sustainability Research Methodology 57 Sustainability Lens: Active Portfolio Management 62 SAM and Performance 63 SAM’s Extended Family: Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes 66 Sustainability Advocacy and Company Engagement 74 Summary 76 Notes 77 Chapter 7 Domini and BP 81Colm Fay Domini Social Investments 83 Safety, Environmental, and Ethical Concerns 84 Domini Investment Philosophy 84 Business Model Analysis: Key Performance Indicator Alignment Model 85 Integrating Business Model Alignment and Stakeholder Relationship Strength 87 Notes 90 Chapter 8 The Story of Calvert 91Sam Brownell and Sara Herald Unconventional History 91 Calvert’s People 93 Calvert’s Methodologies: Signature, Solution, and SAGE 96 Calvert’s Performance 102 Summary 105 Notes 106 Chapter 9 Winslow 107Amrita Vijay Kumar Blazing a Trail 107 Investment Process 108 Performance Considerations 112 Summary 112 Notes 113 Chapter 10 Portfolio 21 115Ashley Hamilton Portfolio 21: A History 116 Theory of Sustainability and Change 117 In Search of Forward-Looking Companies 119 Results 120 Summary 121 Notes 122 Chapter 11 Northwest and Ethical Investments 123Dana Krechowicz Humble Beginnings 124 New Direction 124 Evolving Investment Approach 126 Corporate Engagement Program 128 Key Products and Performance over Time 130 Looking Forward: NEI’s Merger with Northwest Funds 131 Note 132 Chapter 12 Looking for a Green Century: Passive-Indexed versus Active Portfolio Management 133Fernando Viana Background 134 Green Century Funds 134 Green Century Equity Fund 135 Trillium Asset Management and the Balanced Fund 136 Trillium Asset Management Corporation 137 Carbon Footprint of the Balanced Fund 140 Seeking Safer Packaging: The Bisphenol-A Report 140 Shareholder Advocacy 141 Summary 144 Notes 144 Chapter 13 Pictet Water 145Jenna Manheimer and Nancy Degnan Evolution of Investment Strategy over Time: Original versus Current Mission 147 Founders and Key Decision Makers 148 Methodology 149 Metrics: What Is Important and Why 150 Pictet’s Investments 151 Companies Pictet Has Not Invested in, and Why 153 Performance Review 154 Summary 155 Notes 155 Chapter 14 Inflection Point Capital Management and Strategically Aware Investing 159Matthew J. Kiernan Strategically Aware Investing 161 Beyond Environmental, Social, and Governance toward a New Model of Corporate Sustainability 162 Portfolio Construction 163 Investment Process 164 Summary 167 Note 167 Chapter 15 Environmental Metrics 169James Salo Theoretical and Practical Needs for Sustainable Investment 170 Available Data and Metrics 172 Challenges and Opportunities Moving Forward 175 Summary 178 Notes 179 Chapter 16 Crawford Chemicals: Carbon Risk Management in an Uncertain Environment 181Thomas J. Nist, Pavel Yakovlev, and Becky Weisberg Crawford’s Environmental Dilemma 182 Markets for Carbon Permits and Cap and Trade 185 European Union Emissions Trading Scheme 188 Pros and Cons of the Market for Carbon Permits 190 Predicament of Sustainability in the Chemical Industry 193 Summary 199 Notes 199 Chapter 17 Using Statistical Tools 203Sam Brownell Understanding the Trend 205 Summary 206 Notes 209 Chapter 18 Barriers to Sustainable Investing 211Stephen Viederman Missing Planet Problem 212 Overcoming the Barriers 213 Strategy and Tactics 214 Notes 215 Chapter 19 The Silent “S” in ESG 217Dan Viederman Assessing Social Metrics to Increase Business Performance 218 Risk Management 218 Summary 220 Chapter 20 Sustainable Investing: A Ten-Year Perspective 221Nancy Degnan The New Normal 222 Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Sustainability Research 222 Adaptation as Key to Investment and Practice 224 Ecosystem Services 226 Making Use of Data and Findings 227 Summary 230 Notes 230 Chapter 21 Bloomberg 235Curtis Ravenel Providing Investor Insight and Increasing Transparency 236 Summary 238 Notes 239 Chapter 22 Aviva 241Malte Griess-Nega and Nick Robins Aviva’s History and Investment Philosophy 242 Aviva’s SRI Investment Process 242 SRI Portfolio Construction 246 Case Study 1: Green Tires 246 Case Study 2: The Responsible Supply Chain 248 Engagement Across All Asset Classes 249 Conclusion 251 Notes 251 Chapter 23 Generation Investment Management 253Malte Griess-Nega and Nick Robins A New Model for Global Equities 254 Summary 258 Notes 259 Chapter 24 Insight Investment: Reflections and Lessons Learned from Integrating Sustainability 261Rory Sullivan About Insight 262 Investment Research on ESG Issues 263 Case Study: Climate Change 266 Case Study: European Electricity Utilities 267 Case Study: Biofuels 268 Reflections/Takeaways from the Case Studies 269 Summary 274 Notes 274 Chapter 25 The Unexpected Role Model: Chinese Environmental and Energy Policy 277J. Jason Mitchell China’s Resource Scarcity and Its Empirical Need for Efficiency 280 Shaping Chinese Energy-Efficiency Norms 288 Chinese Policy Setting 290 Translating China’s Environmental Policies into Industrial Opportunities 292 Summary 296 Notes 297 Chapter 26 Ethical Asia 301Simon Powell Reporting Is on the Rise 302 CSR Works when Companies and Society Are Aligned 305 Focuses in Asia: Labor and Environment 306 Summary 310 Chapter 27 Mitigating ESG Risk in Asian Portfolios 313Lucy Carmody and Laura Dodge The Challenge: Lack of Disclosure 314 ESG Integration in Asian Portfolios 315 Funding ESG Research 317 Building Institutional Capacity 318 Use of Indexes, Benchmarking, and Screening 319 Summary 320 Notes 320 Chapter 28 Sustainable Investing and Canada 323Dana Krechowicz and Alex Wood The Basics 324 Growth of Canada’s Sustainable Investment Industry 325 Context and Trends 325 Summary 327 Notes 327 Chapter 29 High-Risk Areas, Resources, and Sustainability 329N.A.J. Taylor Blacklisted 330 Background 331 Enter Rio Tinto 336 Ordinary Business Activities 339 Summary 342 Notes 342 Chapter 30 Sustainable Investing in Africa’s Frontier Markets 345Graham Sinclair and Roselyne Yao Stronger Economics: The Case for Investing in Africa 346 Sustainability Issues in Africa 348 Role of Indexes 350 International Exposure 350 Future Trends: ESG, Media Coverage, and Networks 352 Summary 353 Notes 354 Chapter 31 Evolution of ESG in India 359Sumantra Sen Sustainability Issues in India 359 Opportunities in India’s Sustainable Investing Market 361 Considering the Integration of ESG Factors 362 Summary 363 References 364 Chapter 32 Indexes 365Graham Sinclair The “What” and “Why” of Indexes 366 Index Architecture 369 Research Quality and Independence 372 Lessons from the Leading Sustainability Indexes 373 Company Reactions to Indexes and Their Impacts 378 Summary 380 Notes 381 Chapter 33 How Asset Owners Can Achieve a Sustainable Investing Framework 383Roger Urwin Importance of Values and Beliefs 384 Integrated Allocations and Targeted Allocations 385 Risk Factors and ESG Beta 386 Quantitative Methods of Risk and Return 388 Monitoring Framework 389 Summary 391 Notes 392 Chapter 34 On Performance 393Bud Sturmak and Cary Krosinsky SRI Techniques 394 ESG Affects Investment Performance 395 Trends from Performance Reports 396 Summary 398 Notes 398 Chapter 35 Private Equity 401Graham Sinclair Private Equity as a Niche of General Asset Management 402 PE’s Fit within Sustainable Investing 404 Development Finance Institutions Leverage of Emerging Markets Private Equity 405 PE-Specific ESG Methods 406 PE Best Practices and ESG Case Studies 408 Contrasting PE and Listed Equity Investors 409 New SI Activity in the PE Asset Class 410 PE Allocations Increase 410 Increased PE Funds Focused on Emerging Markets 411 Future Sustainability Themes in PE 412 Summary 413 Notes 414 Chapter 36 Blue Wolf: Implications for Private Equity 417Adam Blumenthal and Michael Musuraca Challenges and Opportunities 419 Generating Results 420 Labor Relations Coda 421 Summary 422 Chapter 37 New Business Models, Measurement, and Methodologies 423Howard Brown Resources and Products versus Wealth 425 Trend of Doing More with Less 426 Improving Overall Performance 426 Summary 427 Chapter 38 Terminology and Intention 429Lloyd Kurtz Values 430 Financial Performance 432 Fiduciary Duty: Universal Ownership 433 Impact 435 Mapping Techniques to Motivation 436 Summary 437 Notes 438 Conclusion41Cary Krosinsky 4 Notes 446 Appendix A Sample Curriculum 447 Syllabus 447 Appendix B Investors 453 Index 455
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Whole Worlds Watching
Book SynopsisIn The Whole Worlda s Watching the authors explain how money can be channeled into the technology that will preserve the lifestyles we currently enjoy and create a new era of economic growth. This is a book that proposes real, concrete solutions.Trade Review"A timely new book." ---- The Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2000Table of ContentsForeword. Jack Kemp: Biographical Information. Acknowledgments. The Whole World's Watching. America Strikes Out. The Rest of the World. Power to the People. The Afterburners. Renewable Energy. Nuclear Energy. Fuel Cells. Trading. Methane and Other Greenhouse Gases. Kyoto Has No Soul. Glossary.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Agricultural and Environmental Research in Small
Book SynopsisDeveloping countries are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain research institutions that can support the broad demands of their agricultural and natural resource sectors. In many countries, this is due to a diminutive economy and population which limits the resource base upon which to build a viable, productive research system. This book examines the ways small countries have approached these problems and how they can use their small-scale institutions and limited resources to best advantage. The main feature of this book is a national portfolio approach to the strategic planning of research. This approach addresses the many institutional, policy, and scientific demands that stretch the scope of research in small developing countries, including new developments in natural resource management, biotechnology, regional collaboration, networking, and the management of scientific information. Based on the experience of small countries with small research organisations, AgriculturalTable of ContentsDefining the "Small-Country" Problem. Working with Small-Scale and Diverse Institutions. The National Research Portfolio - Establishing a Manageable Scope. National Research Portfolios - Case Study Findings. Research on Natural Resource Management - A New Beginning, or Just Another Agenda Item? Diversification and High-Value Nontraditional Exports - Can Research Open 'Windows of Opportunity?' Biotechnology - A Strategy for Participation. Planning for the Information Revolution. Small Countries as Partners in Regional Initiatives. Agricultural Research Networks in Small Countries. Conclusion - Lessons from Small Countries. Index.
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Wiley Environmental Assessment in Developing and Transitional Countries
Book SynopsisThis textbook covers both environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment. It relates to low and middle income countries in areas including Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.Trade Review"On the whole, it is a valuable volume, not only for academics and students but also for practitioners such as planners, decision makers, development bank officers, non-governmental organizations and others." (Jnl of Environmental Planning & Management, Vol.44, No.6, 2001)Table of ContentsIntroduction (N. Lee & C. George). EA PRINCIPLES, PROCESSES AND PRACTICE. Environmental Assessment in its Developmental and Regulatory Context (N. Lee). Comparative Review of Environmental Assessment Procedures and Practice (C. George). Screening and Scoping (C. Wood). Environmental Impact Prediction and Evaluation (C. George). Economic Valuation of Environmental Impacts (C. Kirkpatrick). Social Impact Assessment (F. Vanclay). Reviewing the Quality of Environmental Assessments (N. Lee). Methods of Consultation and Public Participation (R. Bisset). Integrating Appraisals and Decision-making (N. Lee). Environmental Monitoring, Management and Auditing (C. George). COUNTRY AND INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES OF EA PROCEDURES AND PRACTICE. Country Studies of EA in Chile, Indonesia and the Russian Federation (L. Contreras, et al.). Country Studies of EA in Nepal, Jordan and Zimbabwe (R. Khadka, et al.). Environmental Assessment in Development Banks and Aid Agencies (C. Rees, et al.). Strengthening Future Environmental Assessment Practice: An International Perspective (H. Abaza). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Environmental Economics
Book SynopsisGlobal Environmental Economics: Equity and the Limits to Markets represents a stimulating collaboration by economists, ethicists, political scientists, demographers, and ecologists from around the world.Trade Review"After reconnecting neo-classical economic theory to moral philosophy, these essays systematically describe the real challenges of global environmental economics and politics in a world of future uncertainties. Putting equity - intranational, transnational and intergenerational - at the center of analyses does not make the answers easier, but it does make their pursuit realistic and potential application more effective." Richard B. Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources and of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley "This volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature by providing a unified theoretical background to the topic in addition to specific representative applications. The presentation of both vertical and horizontal equity is unique in that this volume pulls together ideas that lead to the recognition that one form of equity cannot generally be addressed in isolation from the other. The over-riding strength is the direct approach taken to a complex and controversial issue. The argument that equity is, and should be, a determining factor in how we address global environmental issues is clearly expressed and well-supported on both theoretical and applied bases." Jane V. Hall, Professor of Economics, California State University, FullertonTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Part I: Rights, Preferences and Well-Being. 1. The Economics of Well-Being: A Review of Post Welfarist Economics. (Mohammed Dore). 2. Bequeathing Hazards: Security Rights and Property Rights of Future Humans. (Henry Shue). 3. Non-Use Values and the Limits of Cost Benefit Analysis. (Marc Willinger). Part II: Equity and Environmental Options. 4. Environmental Uncertainty and Future Generations. (Vercelli). 5. Environmental Option Values: A Critical Assessment. (Marcello Basili and Alexandro Vercelli). 6. Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Policy Evaluation. (Tony Ward). Part III: Population and the Environment. 7. The Dynamics of Socio-Environmental Change and the Limits of Neo-Malthusian Environmentalism. (Peter Taylor and Raúl García-Barrios). 8. Population Growth and the State: Reconciling Private Wants and the Public Interest. (Paul Demeny). Part IV: After RIO: Global Action on Equity and the Environment. 9. Greenhouse Negotiations and the Mirage of Partial Justice. (Erik Schokkaert and Johan Eyckmans). 10. Market-Structuring Regulation and the Ozone Regime: Politics of the Montreal Protocol. (Ronald Herring). 11. Lessons from the Earth Summit: Protecting and Managing Biodiversity in the Tropics (P. S. Ramakrishnan). Part V: Sectoral Studies of Equity and the Environment. 12. Industrial and Resource Location, Trade and Pollution. (Duane Chapman and Jean Agras and Vivek Suri). 13. Sharing Common Property Resources: The North Atlantic Cod Fishery. (Daniel Gordon and K. K. Klein). 14. Redirecting Energy Policy in the USA to Address Global Warming. (Tim Mount). Epilogue. Reference.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment
Book SynopsisEnvironmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development and demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This handbook hopes to improve practice by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate. Volume I addresses EIA principles, process and methods. Part 1 maps the EIA process and its impact on decision, and positions EIA in the context of sustainable development as well as the other decision tools, including economic valuation. It also positions strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in a similar way. Part 2 addresses the elements of the EIA process and significant impact assessment topics (air, water, ecological, social, risk, landscape and visual), not only in terms of good practice but also methodological evolution. The volume concludes by addressing cumulatiTable of ContentsPart I: EIA As a Decision Tool:. Introduction. EIA and Sustainable Development. EIA Versus other Environmental Management Tools. Strategic Environmental Assessment - Principles and Potential. Criteria and Standards for Assessing Significant Impact. EIA, CBA and the Valuation of Environmental Impacts. EIA Impact on Decisions. Public Participation and EIA. EIA and Information Technologies. Part II: EIA Process and Methods:. Screening, Scoping and Site-Selection. EIA Monitoring and Auditing. Air Quality Assessment. Water Impact Assessment. Social Impact Assessment. Ecological Assessment. Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment. Risk Assessment. Cumulative Effects Assessment. Methods of Strategic Environmental Assessment
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Princeton University Press Rethinking Private Authority
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, the author shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the years, largely in the area of treaty implementation.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2014-2015 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association Winner of the 2015 Levine Prize, International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government "In this pioneering work, Green explores how governmental and private actors can work together to institute regulations to address global environmental problems... [I]ts conclusions have implications for the entire field of international relations. The work is carefully argued, clearly written, and supported by an extensive bibliography."--Choice "The author has to be acclaimed for her ability to wade through hundreds if not thousands of documents, verify their authenticity and reach conclusions on the variety of measures taken by the private sector in cooperation with governments, international organisations or independently, to discharge their responsibility toward containing emissions."--Madras Sivaraman, International Journal of Environmental Studies "[Green] offer[s] novel and insightful empirical descriptions of the operation of private authority in contemporary global governance."--Elizabeth Acorn, Global Law Books "Offer[s] a persuasive framework for identifying and analyzing private authority at the international level. The usefulness of the framework is illustrated here by extended empirical studies."--Kathryn Hochstetler, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Acronyms xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. A Theory of Private Authority 26 Chapter 2. Agents of the State: A Century of Delegation in International Environmental Law 54 Chapter 3. Governors of the Market: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Authority 78 Chapter 4. Atmospheric Police: Delegated Authority in the Clean Development Mechanism 104 Chapter 5. Atmospheric Accountants: Entrepreneurial Authority and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol 132 Chapter 6. Conclusion 163 Bibliography 183 Index 207
£74.80
Princeton University Press Climate Shock
Book SynopsisIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren'Trade Review2016 Outstanding Book of the Year "Most Likely to Save the Planet," Independent Publisher Book Awards One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection One of the Globalist's Top Books of 2015 Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015 "[Climate Shock] is a witty, far-ranging, and literate set of observations...[I]t is always informed by a deep understanding of the complexities of economics and particularly the difficulties of reaching international environmental agreements."--William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-NYRB-Nordhaus] "'Top 10: Business & Economics' for Spring 2015."--Publishers Weekly [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-PublishersWeekly] "Economists Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman deliver a high-voltage shock in their analysis of the costs of climate change."--Nature [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Nature] "[U]seful for policy workers in helping shape dollars-and-cents arguments about the environment and global climate."--Kirkus [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Kirkus] "[A]n impressive (and concise) book."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-EnlightenedEcon] "This informative, convincing, and easily read book offers general audiences the basic case for global climate mitigation."--Ian Parry, Finance & Development [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FD-Parry] "This book represents a synthesis of research and offers a clear-headed look at what must be done."--Toronto Star [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-TorontoStar] "Climate Shock is refreshing in many ways: it starts with a pop quiz, reveals the script of a (possible) new James Bond film and gives you the solution to climate change on page 23. That should be enough to entice a broad readership. However, the book's true value lies elsewhere, in the authors' ability to present a complex and multifaceted topic in plain, simple terms. They challenge assumptions and don't shy away from a clear call for action."--Swenja Surminski, Times Higher Education "For the intelligent lay reader wanting a lively, lucid assessment of the economic consequences of global warming... [W]ell worth reading."--Pilita Clark, Financial Times [See full review http://www.bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Clark] "[Climate Shock] combines sophisticated analysis with a breezy, informal style."-- Foreign Affairs [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FA-Cooper] "[A] sobering wake-up call ... In my mind, this book should be required reading for any policymaker. The world might actually make some real progress, then."--Tibi Puiu, ZME Science [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-ZMES-Puiu] "In Wagner and Weitzman's new book, they present a well written analysis of the tradeoffs we collectively face as we unintentionally unleash climate change. They argue that a risk averse person or nation should buy insurance to protect itself--especially when the losses from climate change are ambiguous and fat tail risk could be huge. The book is well argued and I highly recommend it. The economic approach to discussing climate change offers a new prospective relative to the issues that climate scientists focus on."--Matthew E. Kahn, Green Economics [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-GE-Kahn] "[A] welcome new addition to the growing library of depressing but important books about climate change."--Tom Watson, Real Change News [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-RCN-Watson] "[Climate Shock] delivers a brief but thorough look at the changing climate from economists' perspective, comparing global warming with other risks and dangers that humanity faces... [T]he book does serve as a call to arms for business owners and leaders, economists, and policymakers who have been searching for a purely rational, finance-focused take on climate change."--Katie Fehrenbacher, Strategy + Business [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Strategy-Fehrenbacher] "[A] punchy new book."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Wolf] "[A] terrific new book."--Martin Sandbu, Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Sandbu] "Climate Shock should shift our narrative on climate change... Wagner and Weitzman have some policy recommendations, including electricity-grid reform and higher gas taxes. But the real power of their book is its explanation of the right way to think about climate change. Do we really want to take an 11 percent gamble with the planet?"--Peter Orszag, Bloomberg View [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Bloomberg-Orszag] "Climate Shock is an authoritative call to arms for tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time."--LSE [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-LSE] "[A] lively and thought-provoking book."--Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-summerbooks] "Climate Shock could have reasonably been called But Will the People Notice? It's a layperson's survey of climate economics, a field that includes cost-benefit analysis and other economic research on climate change impacts and climate change policies... Beyond just being mathematically accessible--an accomplishment in itself--Climate Shock is an unconventional book that takes risks in an effort to connect with audiences who might otherwise turn away."Yoram Bauman, Reports of the National Center for Science Education "Overflowing with analytical insights and simple suggestions to transform the way we live and manage ourselves."--Deccan HeraldTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition ix Preface: Pop Quiz xi Chapter 1. 911 1 Chapter 2. 411 30 Chapter 3. Fat Tails 48 Chapter 4. Willful Blindness 80 Chapter 5. Bailing Out the Planet 92 Chapter 6. 007 116 Chapter 7. What You Can Do 128 Epilogue: A Different Kind of Optimism 148 Acknowledgments 153 Notes 155 Bibliography 207 Index 243
£15.19
Pluto Press Bleakonomics A Heartwarming Introduction to
Book SynopsisA guide to the insanity of the corrupt modern eraTrade Review'A most valuable contribution to public understanding and vitally needed action' -- Noam Chomsky'Larson adds a critical component to the policy debate about financial reform by explaining why the systemically dangerous institutions (SDIs) -- the 'too big to fail' banks -- imperil our democracy as well as our economy' -- William K. Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.'Whether illuminating the rapacious class war being waged by America's CEOs, the remarkably mindless degradation of the world's oceans, or the wishful thinking about the increasingly evident consequences of global warming, Rob Larson consistently brings powerful insights and a biting wit. Larson has a unique skill for translating complex economic and scientific analysis with both clarity and force' -- Roger Bybee, labour journalist'Robert Larson's range of topics and accessible writing make this book an invaluable contribution to the critical task of connecting environmental degradation and overwhelming corporate power' -- Mary Zepernick, co-founder of Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD)'Fact-driven, concise, interesting, and even funny -- that's unusual for a book about economics, policies, and working people' -- Tom Szymanski, Organizer of IBEW Local 275Table of ContentsPreface The Plutonomy Papers Part 1: External Damnation The market’s unintended impact on the environment Introduction 'Externalities' in theory 1. Come Hell and High Water 2. Hug Them While They Last 3. Hot Water Capitalism's "best economic case" 4. The Brown Peril Atmospheric 5. Cause and Side-Effect 6. As Not Seen On TV Part 2: Will Work For Peanuts The job market and war on labor Introduction The labor market in theory 7. Classroots 8. Hitting the Class Ceiling 9. Fight and Flight 10. MidEast Meets MidWest 11. Ebony & Irony 12. The Subprime Court 13. Keeping Down With the Joneses Part 3: The Invisible Hand Gives the Finger The crisis-prone finance market Introduction Credit markets in theory 14. Pop Goes the Economy 15. Not Too Big Enough 16. Bonanzas As Usual 17. Fed Up 18. Starved For Attention Conclusion: Invisible Sleight-of-Hand Economics as a failed science Notes Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Burning Up
Book SynopsisA history of the excesses of capitalism's rampant fossil fuel consumption since 1950.Trade Review'An extraordinarily ambitious, but arguably necessary task for our times' -- Paul Warde, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge'Insightful, precise and well-written, Burning Up turns energy consumption on its head. Pirani fills a crucial gap left by a mountain of shiny but vacuous reports and not enough solid history ... Anybody fighting climate change should read this' -- Mika Minio-Paluello, campaigner at Platform London and co-author of The Oil Road: journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London (Verso, 2013)'This meticulous depiction of how fossil fuels are woven into our human systems - not only technological but also economic, social and political - is an invaluable aid to getting them back under control' -- Walt Patterson, author of Electricity vs Fire (2015)'Explains the technological, social and economic processes that have prioritised a particular way of satisfying society's demand for energy services' -- Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, UK, author of Global Energy Dilemmas (2013)'Burning Up is a vital contribution to the climate movement. A first step to organizing around its insights will be to ensure it is widely read in the movement, and by those whose lives will be affected by climate change' -- Climate and Capitalism'Recommended' -- CHOICE'This comprehensive book provides a modern history of global fossil fuel consumption. Authoritative and well researched, it provides a solid bedrock to understand the ins and outs of fuels' -- Bright Green'An essential tool for understanding fossil fuel consumption in terms of the vested interests who have benefited from it' -- Ann Pettifor, GuardianTable of ContentsFigures Tables Acknowledgements Units of Measurement Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Contexts 1. Fossil Fuels Before 1950 2. Energy Technologies 3. Energy in Society 4. Fossil Fuel Consumption in Numbers Part II: Chronologies 5. The 1950s and 1960s: Post-War Boom 6. The 1970s: Crises and Oil Price Shocks 7. Patterns of Electrification 8. The 1980s: Recession and Recovery 9. The 1990s: Shunning the Global Warming Challenge 10. The 2000s: Acceleration Renewed Part III: Reflections 11. Interpretations and Ideologies 12. Possibilities 13. Conclusions Appendices Notes Further Reading and Bibliography Index
£22.49
Pluto Press Climate Capitalism and Communities
Book SynopsisAn anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.Trade Review'Presenting evidence from places as diverse as the Arctic, Mongolia and Peru, this volume testifies to the growing anthropological awareness of the link between global capitalism and climate change' -- Hans A Baer, author of 'Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System''This excellent analysis of climate change and global 'overheating' is underpinned by studies that demonstrate how it is experienced in diverse cultural and geographical contexts. Every researcher, politician and activist seeking ways to avert ecological and social meltdown should read this book' -- Veronica Strang, author of 'Water: Nature and Culture'Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Economic and Environmental Crises in an Overheated World - Astrid B. Stensrud and Thomas Hylland Eriksen 2. The Political Economy of the Great Acceleration, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Anna Tsing 3. A Community on the Brink of Extinction? Ecological Crises and Ruined Landscapes in Northwest Greenland - Kirsten Hastrup 4. Sea Ice, Climate and Resources: The Changing Nature of Hunting Along Greenland's Northwest Coast - Mark Nuttall 5. Volatility: Understanding Global Capitalism and Climate Change Vulnerability in Mongolia - Andrei Marin 6. The Dark Side of Progress: The Intersections of Climate Change, Neoliberalism and Modernity in Peru - Astrid B. Stensrud 7. Puzzling Pieces and Situated Urgencies of Climate Change and Globalisation in the High Arctic: Three Stories from Qaanaaq - Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Janne Flora 8. Counting: Health Emergencies and the Constitution of Extractive Natures in Northern Loreto, Peru - María A. Guzmán-Gallegos 9. Expansive Capitalism, Climate Change and Global Climate Mitigation Regimes: A Triple Burden on Forest Peoples in the Global South - Harold Wilhite and Cecilia G. Salinas 10. Climate Change, Oceanic Sovereignties and Maritime Economies in the Pacific - Edvard Hviding 11. Islands of Hope and Despair: Scaling the Collapses and the Collapse of Scales - Frank Sejersen 12. Using a Glacier Website to Promote Action and Build Community: Engaged Anthropology in the Digital Age - Ben Orlove, Kerry Milch and Laura Uguccioni Notes on Contributors Index
£25.19
Pluto Press Socialist States and the Environment
Book SynopsisReclaims the contentious legacy of state socialism in order to build an ecosocialist futureTrade Review'A fascinating account. For too long we have tended to demonise socialist states, this book shows that to overcome the climate crisis, there are positive lessons to be learnt, from Lenin's promotion of conservation to Cuba's achievements in promoting ecological policymaking' -- Derek Wall is a former International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales and teaches economics at Goldsmiths, University of London'Many people have realised that ecological sustainability cannot be achieved under capitalism. But how about (eco-) socialism? For everyone who is interested in a sustainable future and a new society without oppression, I strongly recommend this book' -- Minqi Li, Professor of Economics, University of Utah and author of 'China and the 21st Century Crisis' (Pluto, 2015)'In our current moment of a near total co-optation of environmentalism where billionaires and military forces are looked to for solutions to the problems they create, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro provides a serious, data-driven, and sober look at what socialist states have been able to do for the environment' -- Justin Podur, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University'Compelling - by doing a deep analysis of environmental policies and practices on the USSR, China, and Cuba, Engel-Di Mauro answers these questions: is possible to build ecosocialist futures from previous accomplishments of state-socialist countries? And what they can offer for future socialist projects?' -- Ana Isla, Professor Emerita at the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Brock University'Sharply erudite... takes us on a brilliant guided tour of the environmental programs of socialist states and a variety of community-led initiatives. Among them, Thomas Sankara's Burkina Faso, Cuba and its agroecology, the PRC up to 1978, the USSR and many of the Eastern European countries up to 1990, various African people's republics through 1992, and, despite their largely privatised economies, the Bolivias, Venezuelas, and Vietnams of today' -- Rob Wallace, author of 'Big Farms Make Big Flu' (Monthly Review Press, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 A Brief History of Socialist States and Ecosocialism 3 The Poverty of Comparisons 4 Environmental Impacts in Context 5 Reckoning with Contradictions to Build Ecosocialism Postface References Index
£21.84
Pluto Press Exploring Degrowth A Critical Guide
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the degrowth movement worldwideTrade Review'Everyone knows we can't go on like this. As the world lurches from crisis to crisis, Exploring Degrowth outlines alternatives to a capitalism that expands like a cancer. This is a lively and accessible introduction to the ideas, theorists and controversies associated with degrowth' -- Jeff Sparrow, 'Guardian''This book is the perfect introduction to the burgeoning intellectual and activist movement of degrowth. Short, crisp and provocative' -- Giorgos Kallis, ecological economist, author of 'Limits''A superbly written reflection on degrowth politics' -- Ariel Salleh, editor of 'Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice''This is an excellent introduction to the degrowth perspective, an important contribution to an urgent debate.' -- John Holloway, author of 'Change the World Without Taking Power''We can improve people’s lives right now, without any growth at all, simply by sharing what we already have more fairly and investing in public goods. Equity is the antidote to the growth imperative. ... Of course, all of this leaves us with a million questions. What does a such an economy look like? How does it work? How do we get there? The book you hold in your hands traces a path through this thicket, and paints a picture of the new economy that lies ahead – an economy that enables human flourishing for all within planetary boundaries' -- Jason Hickel, author of 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World'Table of ContentsList of Figures and Boxes List of Abbreviations and Symbols Glossary Series Preface Foreword by Jason Hickel Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Exploring ‘Degrowth’ 2. Decolonising Our Growth Imaginaries 3. Degrowth in Practice 4. Political Strategies for Degrowth 5. The Degrowth Project: A Work in Progress Postface: ‘Now Is the Time of Monsters’ Appendix 1: A Platform for Degrowth Appendix 2: The Content of the Unconditional Autonomy Allowance Appendix 3: Implementing the Unconditional Autonomy Allowance: Transitionary Steps Notes Selected Further Reading and Links Index
£72.25
Pluto Press The Politics of Permaculture
Book SynopsisA clear introduction to the politics of permaculture, from a renowned writer and practitioner within the movementTrade Review'Based on decades of experience in the Global South and in the Global North, this concise book analyses the multiple dimensions of permaculture as a practice, an ethic, an experience, a worldview, a personal commitment and, for sure, a part of a social movement that will hopefully contribute to a deep change our world very much requires' -- Geoffrey Pleyers, Vice-President of the International Sociological Association and author of 'Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age' (Polity, 2011)'Some declare that permaculture is the biggest and fastest moving people's movement in the world. Terry Leahy gives us what is possibly the first permaculture book to examine thoroughly permaculture from a sociological point of view and its potential to undermine the systems driving Earth to degradation and immoral social inequity' -- Rosemary Morrow, founder of the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute and author of 'Permaculture Teaching Matters' (Permanent Publications, 2010)'Critical theorists often restrict themselves to criticizing the prevailing conditions of the system. They rarely turn a critical gaze on initiatives based in solidarity and aiming at transformation. Terry Leahy's book is not only a proof that this is fruitful but a proof that this pathway may lead us to widen the horizon of what transformation can mean' -- Friederike Habermann, author of 'Ecommony: UmCARE zum Miteinander''Inspiring. [...] Crammed with lively interviews and grounded examples showing the relevance of the approach to the Global South, this volume is an invaluable contribution to the growing material on how we can still show ourselves to be truly sapiens, by being responsible stewards of a wonderful, life-celebrating world' -- Ashish Kothari, founder of Kalpavriksh (Environmental Action Group) and co-editor of 'Pluriverse' (Tulika Books, 2019)'A valuable discussion, including connections with class, feminism, colonialism and differing ideas about social change' -- Ted Trainer, author of 'Transition to a Just and Sustainable World' (Environbooks, 2010)'Permaculture has been described as 'a revolution disguised as organic gardening.' That may be so, but vision without political strategy can be empty. Terry Leahy explores the political significance and latent potential of permaculture, which is terrain that has been sorely neglected' -- Samuel Alexander, Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and author of 'Wild Democracy: Degrowth, Permaculture, and the Simpler Way' (Simplicity Institute Publishing, 2017)'A lucid sociological analysis, arguing that the permaculture movement is multi-variegated and paradoxical. Highly recommended for readers who are looking for a concise overview of permaculture not only as an agricultural practice but as a pre-figurative experiment' -- Hans A. Baer, University of Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and author of 'Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia: Transitioning to an Alternative World System' (Berghahn, 2017)'This is permaculture revealed in all its splendour [...] an invaluable approach for exploring future strategic pathways' -- Noel Blencowe, long term Co-Team Leader, CERES Environmental Park, Melbourne'Important reflections on theories and practices to address the climate crisis, proving the important role of that progressive social movements have in the development of alternative knowledge' -- Donatella Della Porta, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence‘Helped deepen my understanding of the movement that has defined my life and shaped that of countless others. It is hard to imagine a better portrait of the movement’ -- David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept and author of ‘Permaculture One’Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Preface 1. What Is Permaculture? Three Perspectives 2. Permaculture as a Social Movement 3. Strategies and Visions 4. Permaculture Practice: Prefiguring System Change 5. Gender and Colonialism Conclusion: Permaculture Politics Notes Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Elinor Ostroms Rules for Radicals Cooperative
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the groundbreaking ideas of the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for EconomicsTrade Review'Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals has given me food for thought and action' -- John McDonnell'A fascinating insight into the only woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in alternatives to the neoliberal consensus' -- Caroline Lucas, Co-Leader of the Green Party'An astute interpretative overview of Ostrom's far-ranging scholarship on the commons: inspiration and guidance for a new generation of commons thinkers and activists' -- David Bollier, author of Think Like a Commoner, and Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics'The UK's vote to leave the EU and the election of Donald Trump as US President are both signs that working people are rejecting the global economy. This makes the work of Elinor Ostrom, with its focus on common ownership and political empowerment, very timely' -- Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for South West EnglandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Rules for Radicals 1. Elinor Ostrom's Radical Life 2. The Commons: From Tragedy to Triumph 3. Climate Change, Ecology and Green Politics 4. Beyond Markets and States 5. Deep Democracy 6. Feminism and Intersectionality 7. Trust and Cooperation 8. Science for the People 9. Transforming Institutions 10. Conflict and Contestation Bibliography Resources for Change Index
£72.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Coffee
Book SynopsisIn a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth is, literally, right under our noses.Trade Review"Gavin Fridell�s insightful, well argued and up-to-date analysis of the world coffee economy demonstrates that the state�s role in coffee statecraft continues to be essential to creating a more just division of the earnings in the world of coffee. As well as providing a thorough guide to the economics and politics of one of the world�s most important commodities, this book will spark much needed debate about the nature of neoliberalism and market-based solutions to economic and social problems." Steven Topik, University of California Irvine"Gavin Fridell provides an invaluable, beautifully written and thoroughly engaging account of the contemporary global coffee market. I would recommend this work widely, not just for those interested in any aspect of the coffee economy but also for those interested in contemporary changes to the global economy or agrarian commodities."Economic GeographyTable of Contents1. The Global Market and Coffee Statecraft2. Making Coffee3. Pro-Poor Regulation4. Coffee Unleashed?5. Fair Trade and Corporate Power6. Coffee and the Non-Developmental State
£12.99
University of British Columbia Press The Wealth of Forests
Book SynopsisThis book is a pioneering attempt to consider the concrete policy implications of the much discussed transition to sustainable forestry.Trade ReviewThe ideas are dazzling, imaginative, and innovative. The authors don't pretend to have all the answers to the dilemma of how to restructure BC's most important industry. They do make a major contribution to the discussion. -- Stephen Hume * The Vancouver Sun *The book contains 15 thoughtful essays on a wide range of forest policy topics, all taken from the viewpoint of foresters in British Columbia. A large part of each essay, however, has broad applicability. People more current with British Columbia than this reviewer may find the book somewhat outdated, but it remains a sophisticated and well-constructed overview for the rest of us. -- John C. Gordon, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University * Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 5, Number 1, 2001 *Recommended. -- B.D. Orr * Choice May 1999 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Chris Tollefson 1. Economic Instruments for Promoting Sustainable Forestry:Opportunities and Constraints / Peter H. Pearse 2. Governing Instruments for Forest Policy in British Columbia: APositive and Normative Analysis / W.T. Stanbury and Ilan B.Vertinsky 3. Compliance and Constraint: Economic Instruments for AchievingObjectives of Public Forest Policy in British Columbia / DavidHaley and Martin K. Luckert 4. Living Communities in a Living Forest: Towards an Ecosystem-BasedStructure of Local Tenure and Management / Michael M’Gonigleand Brian L. Scarfe 5. Sustainable Practices? An Analysis of BC’s Forest PracticesCode / Tracey L. Cook 6. Priority-Use Zoning: Sustainable Solution or Symbolic Politics? /Jeremy Rayner 7. Sustained Yield: Why has it Failed to Achieve Sustainability? /Lois Dellert 8. The Pitfalls and Potential of Eco-Certification as a MarketIncentive for Sustainable Forest Management / Fred Gale and CheriBurda 9. Regulation, Takings, Compensation, and the Environment: AnEconomic Perspective / David Cohen and Brian Radnoff 10. Ecoforestry Bound: How International Trade Agreements Constrainthe Adoption of An Ecosystem-Based Approach to Forest Management /Fred Gale
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Forest Economics
Book SynopsisForestry cannot be isolated from the forces that drive all economic activity. It involves using land, labour, and capital to produce goods and services from forests, while economics helps in understanding how this can be done in ways that will best meet the needs of people. Therefore, a firm grounding in economics is integral to sound forestry policies and practices.This book, a major revision and expansion of Peter H. Pearse's 1990 classic, provides this grounding. Updated and enhanced with advanced empirical presentation of materials, it covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues.Forest Economics draws on the strengths of two of the field's leading practitioners who have more than fifty years of combined experience in teaching forest economics in the United States and Canada. Its comprehensive and systematic analysis of forest issues makes it an indispensable resource for students andTrade ReviewPearse’s 1990 textbook has influenced a whole generation of forest economists in Canada. This new book by Zhang and Pearse holds the promise of serving as an important reference on forest economics in North America and elsewhere in the Englishspeaking world for many years to come. -- Dr. Sen Wang, Canadian Forest Service * Forest Chronicle *Table of ContentsForewordPrefacePart 1: Market, Government, and Forest Investment Analysis1 Forestry’s Economic Perspective2 Market Economy and the Role of Government3 Forest Investment AnalysisPart 2: The Forest Sector – Timber, Land, and Beyond4 Timber Supply, Demand, and Pricing5 Unpriced Forest Values6 Land Allocation and Multiple UsePart 3: Economics of Forest Management7 The Optimal Forest Rotation8 Regulating Harvests over Time9 Long-Term Trends in the Forest Sector and Silvicultural InvestmentPart 4: Economics of Forest Policy10 Property Rights11 Forest Taxes and Other ChargesPart 5: Forest Economics in a Global Perspective12 Forest Products Trade13 Global Forest Resources and the EnvironmentIndex
£38.25
University of British Columbia Press Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a
Book SynopsisIn the face of growing anxiety about the environmental sustainability of the world, George Francis, a leading authority in the field of sustainability studies, examines initiatives undertaken in Canada over the past twenty-five years to protect some of our unique environments.Trade ReviewStriving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World … is an important and interesting look at various innovative ideas that have had varying degrees of success pertaining to living sustainably in Canada. -- Glenn Perrett * Simcoe.com *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Adopting Complexity to Guide Inquiries: Framework, Methods, and Rationale2 The Landscape Regions: Biosphere Reserves and Model Forests3 Governing Landscape Regions: Learning from Experience and Surprise4 Technologies and Innovations: Recent Origins and the Canadian Situation5 Innovations and Sustainability in the Landscape Regions: Looking Ahead, Looking Back6 Other Approaches toward Desirable Sustainability for Canadian Communities7 Where Next? Possibilities Being Explored8 Where Next for Complexity Thinking Itself?AppendicesNotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Empowering Electricity
Book SynopsisThis revealing analysis of Canada's electrical power co-operatives challenges our understanding of their history and shines a light on their potential within the nation's electricity sector.Trade ReviewEmpowering Electricity is an empirically-grounded contribution to the literature on citizen engagement and energy policy in Canada. In particular, it provides a fresh take on BC energy politics that gets beyond the entrenched public/private dichotomy to explore one possible middle ground. While MacArthur implies that electricity co-operatives have the potential to erode public power in BC, her suggestion of co-operatives partnering with municipalities and First Nations may actually offer a new, politically viable approach to public power develpment that is both more democratic and locally acceptable than the current model. -- Nichole Dusyk * BC Studies *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 A Climate for Change2 Governing Sustainability: From Crisis to Empowerment3 Co-operatives in Canadian Political Economy4 International Forces for Power-Sector Restructuring5 Continental, Private, and Green(er)? Canadian Electricity Restructuring6 Electricity Co-operatives: The Power of Public Policy7 Off the Ground and on the Grid: New Electricity Co-operative Development8 Co-operative Networks and the Politics of Community Power9 Empowering ElectricityAppendicesNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex
£25.19
University of Toronto Press The Soviet WoodProcessing Industry
Book SynopsisSystematic study of the geography distribution of the wood-processing industry has received recent Soviet attention, yet the results have been disappointing. Soviet work has been descriptive and lacking in critical analysis of the location problem. In particular, there has been little, if any, attempt to assess the geographic distribution of the industry within the general context of location theory and to evaluate the role played by individual location factors. This monograph is a case study in the application of linear programming techniques to the analysis of transportation patterns within the wood-processing industry. It will add to North American studies not only a knowledge of the location of wood-processing industries but also a better understanding of the factors which have influenced the location of wood-processing in the Soviet Union.(University of Toronto Department of Geography Research Publications No. 4).
£14.24
University of Toronto Press Economic Analysis of Environmental Policies
Book SynopsisA framework is concisely presented for the economic analysis of pollution problems and for evaluating proposed solutions. The substantial recent literature on environmental economics is reviewed and related to Ontario environmental policy. Topics include the theory of externalities as an explanation of environmental problems, policy objectives, costs of information and monitoring, and the impact of these costs on control policy selection. Three case studies of specific pollution problems – sulphur dioxide from a smelter, lead from downtown factories, and urban automobile emissions – are given, and possible solutions explored.The authors' methodology is applicable not only to air and water pollution but also to noise, aesthetic degradation, and solid waste. This study will be welcomed by specialists, civil servants, and students trying to understand the economic aspects of environmental maintenance.
£20.69
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Environment Our Natural Resources and Modern
Book SynopsisAlways controversial, Thomas DeGregori has released another classic volume that is sure to inform, confound, and present new perspectives on todays environmental issues. This time he is taking on the environmentalists, naturalists, green consumerists, and those that hail the natural lifestyle as the healthy, politically correct thing to do. DeGregori examines the economics of green consumerism, the reality of saving the environment, how historical cultures may have influenced environmental damage, and how being ecologically correct may have a more damaging effect on our environment. Not just a regurgitation of theories; DeGregori offers real-time strategies and alternatives to enhance our natural resources and our environment in harmony with today's modern technology. This is the book everyone will be talking about for years to come.Trade Review"The book is thought-provoking and useful in evaluating our own values and ethics relative to ecologically sensitive issues." (CHOICE, S.A. Carlson, Humboldt State University)Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. Green Consumerism. 2. Racism, Elitism, and Environmentalism. 3. Life in the Bush. 4. Paradise in the Pacific? 5. The American Indian: The "Original Ecologist"? 6. Demystifying the Environment. 7. Technology and the "Primitive". 8. The Human Endeavor as a Creative Force. 9. Technology and the Promise of Modernity. References. Index.
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CABI Publishing Forestry Economics and the Environment
Book SynopsisGlobal interest in forest conservation, biodiversity preservation, and non-timber values has risen while pressures on the forest as a source of income and employment have also increased. These demands are often conflicting, making forest planning, allocation and policy formation very complex. This volume explores theoretical and applied issues surrounding forest resource allocation. The book is divided into three main subject areas: tropical forests - environment, economics and trade; non-timber valuation - theory and application; and ecosystem management. The first of these focuses on tropical forests, reflecting the fact that global environmental concerns surrounding these regions are often in conflict with local economic objectives. The second section examines non-timber values, which are important in planning and policy decisions, but are also very controversial. The third group of chapters consider ecosystem management, a concept that promotes the use of forest harvesting practiceTable of Contents1: Pluralism and Pragmatism in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development, E N Castle 2: Global Environmental Value and the Tropical Forests: Demonstration and Capture, D Pearce 3: Local Timber Production and Global Trade: The Environmental Implications of Forestry Trade, R A Sedjo 4: Can Tropical Forests be Saved by Harvesting Non-Timber Products? A Case Study for Ecuador, D Southgate, M Coles-Ritchie and P Salazar-Canelos 5: Conflicts between trade and sustainable forestry policies in the Philippines, H W Wisdom 6: Measuring general public preservation values for forest resources: evidence from contingent valuation surveys, J B Loomis 7: Citizens, consumers and contingent valuation: clarification and the expression of citizen values and issue-opinions, R K Blamey 8: Moral responsibility effects in valuation of WTA for public and private goods by the method of paired comparison, G L Peterson, T C Brown, D W McCollum, P A Bell, A A Birjulin and A Clarke 9: Integrating cognitive psychology into the contingent valuation method to explore the trade-offs between non-market costs and benefits of alternative afforestation programs in Ireland, W G Hutchinson and S M Chilton 10: Valuing tropical rainforest protection using the contingent valuation method, R A Kramer, E Mercer and N Sharme 11: The safe minimum standard approach: an alternative to measuring non-use values for environmental assets? R P Berrens 12: An economic-ecological model for ecosystem management, R Mendelsohn 13: Application of a bioeconomic strategic planning model to an industrial forest in Saskatchewan, B Stewart and M Martel 14: Incentives for managing landscapes to meet non-timber goals: lessons from the Washington landscape management project, B Lippke 15: Perspectives on educating forestry professionals in an environmentally conscious age, J C Nautiyal
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CABI Publishing Rural Change and Sustainability
Book SynopsisThis book draws upon selected, revised and edited papers from a conference of rural geographers from the UK, USA and Canada, held at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. It focuses on rural regions, which are facing conflicting demands, pressures and challenges, which themselves have far-reaching implications for rural space and society. Themes that occur throughout the book include agricultural change, environmental issues, rural communities, governance and globalization, and rural responses to these.Table of Contents1: Rural Change and Sustainability: Key themes, A Gilg, S Essex and R Yarwood Part 1: Agriculture Responses 2: Fordism rampant: the model and reality, as applied to production,processing and distribution in the North American agro-food system, M Troughton, University of Western Ontario, Canada 3: Feed lot Growth in Southern Alberta: A Neo-Fordist Interpretation, I MacLachlan, University of Lethbridge, Canada 4: People and Hogs: Agricultural Restructuring and the Contested Countryside in Agro-Manitoba, D Ramsey, J Everitt and L Behm,Brandon University, Canada 5: Global Markets, Local Foods: the paradoxes of aquaculture,J Marshall, McGill School of Environment, Canada 6: Alternative or conventional? An examination of specialist livestock production systems in the Scottish-English borders, B Ilbery and D Maye,Coventry University, UK 7: Agritourism: Selling traditions of local food production, family,and rural Americana to maintain family farming heritage, D Che,G Veeck, and A Veeck, Western Michigan University, USA 8: Re-imaging agriculture: making the case for farming at the agricultural show, L Holloway, University of Hull, UK Part 2: Environmental Issues 9: Stewardship, 'Proper' Farming and Environmental Gain:Contrasting Experiences of Agri-Environmental Schemes inCanada and the EU, G M Robinson, Kingston University, UK 10: Stemming the urban tide: policy and attitudinal changes for savingthe Canadian countryside, H J Gayler, Brock University, Canada 11: Vulnerability and Sustainability Concerns for the U.S. High Plains,L M Butler Harrington, Kansas State University, USA 12: Environmental Ghost Towns, C Mayla, Eastern Michigan University, USA Part 3: Communities 13: Interpreting Family Farm Change and the Agricultural Importance of Rural Communities: Evidence from Ontario, Canada, J Smithers,University of Guelph, Canada 14: Engagement with the Land: Redemption of the Rural ResidenceFantasy? K V Cadieux, University of Toronto, Canada 15: Mammoth Cave National Park and Rural EconomicDevelopment, K Algeo, Western Kentucky University, USA 16: Assessing Variation in Rural America's Housing Stock: Case Studies from Growing and Declining Areas, H R Barcus, Morehead State University, USA 17: The Geography of Housing Needs of Low Income Persons inRural Canada, D Bruce, Mount Allison University, Canada 18: Social Change in Rural North Carolina, O J Furuseth, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Part 4: Governance 19: Finding the 'Region' in Rural Regional Governance, A K Deakin,State University of New York Fredonia, USA 20: Corporate-community relations in the tourism sector: A stake holder perspective, A M Gill and P W Williams, Simon Fraser University,Canada 21: Resource Town Transition: Debates After Closure, G Halseth,University of Northern British Columbia, Canada 22: Narratives of community-based resource management in the American West , R K Wilson, Gettysburg College, USA 23: Youth, Partnerships and Participation, C Corcoran, University of Birmingham, UK 24: Conclusion, J Smithers, University of Guelph, Canada and R Wilson,Gettysburg College, USA
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CABI Publishing Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability
Book SynopsisThis book consists of selected and revised papers from a conference held in North Carolina that brought together rural geographers from Canada, UK and USA, plus one representative from New Zealand. The papers included in the book are those that focus on agricultural restructuring and sustainability. This subject is of considerable current interest at a time when rural areas in developed market economies are undergoing considerable change. The chapters in the book examine, at various spatial scales, the broad processes and structural changes that are common to all rural systems in developed countries. Different geographical contexts are used to illustrate the uneven development of these processes and the implications for sustainable agriculture and rural systems. Authors provide both literature reviews and original research. The book is aimed at not only rural geographers but also agricultural economists, rural sociologists and policy-makers concerned with rural studies.Table of ContentsSECTION I: Conceptualizing Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability 1.1: Sustainable Development: A Critical Review of Rural Land-use Policy in the UK, R Munton 1.2: Sustainability, Spatial Hierarchies and Land-based Production, C Cocklin, G Blunden and W Moran 1.3: Greening and Globalizing: Agriculture in ‘the New Times’, G Robinson SECTION II: Family Farming and Farming Culture 2.1: Sustainable Technologies, Sustainable Farms: Farms, Households and Structural Change, R Roberts and G Hollander 2.2: Environmental Change and Farm Restructuring in Britain: The Impact of the Farm Family Life Cycle, C Potter 2.3: The Construction of Environmental Meanings Within ‘Farming Culture' in the UK: The Implications for Agri- environmental Research, C Morris and C Andrews 2.4: Community-level Worldviews and the Sustainability of Agriculture, J M Curry-Roper SECTION III: Diversification and Alternative Agriculture 3.1: Rural Re-regulation and Institutional Sustainability: A Case Study of Alternative Farming Systems in England, G Clark, I Bowler, A Crockett, B Ilbery and A Shaw 3.2: On and Off-farm Business Diversification by Farm Households in England, B Ilbery, M Healey and J Higginbottom 3.3: Great Plains Agroecologies: The Continuum from Conventional to Alternative Agriculture in Colorado, L A Duram SECTION IV: Agricultural Sustainability and Climate Change 4.1: Agricultural System Response to Environmental Stress, J Smithers and B Smit 4.2: Adaptability of Agriculture Systems to Global Climate Change: A Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada Pilot Study, M Brklacich, D McNabb, C Bryant and J Dumanski 4.3: Agricultural Response to Climate Change: A Preliminary Investigation of Farm-level Adaptation in Southern Alberta, Q Chiotti, T Johnston, B Smit and B Ebel SECTION V: Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Policy 5.1: Policy, Sustainability and Scale: The US Conservation Reserve Programme, D Nellis, L Harrington and J Sheeley 5.2: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: The Marriage of Agriculture and Conservation in England, N Evans 5.3: Farmer Reaction to Agrienvironmental Schemes: A Study of Participants in South-West England and the Implications for Research and Policy Development, A W Gilg and M R J Battershill 5.4: Achieving Sustainability in Rural Land Management Through Landowner Involvement in Stewardship Programmes, S Hilts SECTION VI: Sustainability and Restructuring the Agricultural System 6.1: Scale Change, Discontinuity and Polarization in Canadian Farm-based Rural Systems, M Troughton 6.2: Sustainability Issues in the Industrialization of Hog Production in the United States, O J Furuseth 6.3: Sustainable Agriculture and Its Social Geographic Context in Ontario, G Walker 6.4: Restructuring for Rural Sustainability: Overcoming Scale Conflicts and Cultural Biases, D Napton
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CABI Publishing Economics of Landscape and Wildlife Conservation
Book SynopsisIn recent years landscape and wildlife conservation has attracted increased attention from environmentalists and policy-makers. There have been policies within the European Union aimed at conserving wildlife and landscape in Europe for more than a decade and appraisal of these policies is opportune. A workshop was therefore held at the University of Hohenheim in September 1996 to examine critical issues associated with these policies. This workshop was one of a series, each focusing on a key theme as part of the EU Concerted Action, Policy measures to control environmental impacts from agriculture. This book presents a selection of revised papers from this workshop. The overall perspective is an economic one, with several chapters reviewing analytical methods, economic valuation of the benefits of agricultural landscapes and the costs and benefits of wildlife conservation. These are set in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy and environmental policies in the EU. The book reprTable of Contents1: Policy Perspectives 2: Towards Sustainable Agriculture - The Perspectives of the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Union, P Billing, European Commission, Belgium 3: Analytical Positions 4: Appropriate Frameworks for Studying the Relationship between Agriculture and the Environment: A Question of Balance, J Whittaker, University of Exeter, UK 5: The Po Delta Park: One River, Two Policies, G Osti, University of Trieste, Italy 6: The Values of the Agricultural Landscape: a Discussion on Value Related Terms in Natural and Social Sciences and the Implications for the Contingent Valuation Method, F Holstein, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 7: Economic Valuation of Benefits of Agricultural Landscape 8: Economic Valuation of Recreational Benefits from Danish Forests, A Dubgaard, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark 9: Valuable Landscapes and Reliable Estimates, K Per Hasund, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 10: Cost and Benefits of Wildlife Conservation 11: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Landscape Restoration: a Case-study in Western France, F Bonnieux, INRA, France and P le Goffe, School of Agriculture (ENSA), France 12: The Full Cost of Stewardship Policies, M Whitby, C Saunders, and C Ray, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 13: The Financial and Economic Consequences of a Wildlife Development and Conservation Plan: a case-study for the Ecological Main Structure in The Netherlands, A Oskam, and L Slangen, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 14: Landscape Values in Farming and Forestry Environmental Accounting (Area Scale Versus Enterprise Approach), E Defrancesco and M Merlo, University of Padua, Italy 15: How Should we Organize Conservation by Farmers? 16: Private Provision of Public Environmental Goods: Policy Mechanisms for agriculture, R D Weaver, Pennyslvania State University, USA 17: Mechanisms for the Provision of Public Goods in the Countryside, U Latacz-Lohmann, Wye College, University of London, Kent, UK 18: Sociological and Economic factors Influencing Farmers’ Participation in Agri-Environmental Schemes, G Kazenwadel, Uni. of Hohenheim, Germany, B van der Ploeg, DLO Winand Staring Centre, Netherlands, P Baudoux & G Häring, Uni. of Hohenheim, Germany 19: Spatial Modelling Approach 20: Optimal Allocation of Wildlife Conservation Areas within Agricultural Land, A Wossink, C Jurgens and J van Wenum, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands 21: Impacts of the European Union Reform Policy After 1996 in North-east Germany: Landscape Change and Wildlife Conservation, H Piorr, Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research, Muncheberg, Germany et al. 22: Interdisciplinary Modelling of Agri-Environmental Problems: Lessons from NELUP, A Moxey, and B White, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 23: Integrating the Common Agricultural Policy 24: An Integrated Approach to Agricultural and Environmental Policies: a Case-study of the Spanish Cereal Sector, J Sumpsi, E Iglesias and A Garrido, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 25: Research Results and Policy Implications, S Dabbert, A Dubgaard, L Slangen and M Whitby
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CABI Publishing Land Use Changes in Tropical Watersheds
Book SynopsisThis book studies land use change in tropical landscapes, with particular emphasis on the economic processes that influence rates of land degradation and forest clearing. Multidisciplinary contributions draw lessons from a rich, decade-long collection of economic, social and environmental data on the Manupali upland watershed in the southern Philippines. Through this detailed case study the book documents forces leading to land use changes, in particular the potential impacts of institutional evolution and policy reforms, and highlights interrelationships between biological, economic, and social phenomena.Table of Contents1: Economic development and watershed degradation, 2: Agricultural development and institutional transitions, 3: Water quality changes in the Manupali River watershed, 4: How do national markets and price policies affect land use at the forest margin?, 5: How do relative price changes alter land use decisions? 6: Economic incentives and agricultural outcomes in upland settings, 7: Simulating soil erosion and sediment yield in small upland watersheds using the WEPP model, 8: Identifying soil erosion hotspots in the Manupali River watershed, 9: Alternatives to traditional annual crop agriculture in the uplands, 10: Linking economic policies and environmental outcomes at a watershed scale, 11: Using Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to assist in watershed management, 12: Conclusions and some directions for future research,
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Valuing Environment and Natural Resources Elgar
Book SynopsisOver-exploitation of environment and natural resources is becoming increasingly widespread in the modern world.Trade Review‘. . . provides a readily accessible window into research and journals that may fall outside the normal scope of our daily work. . . clearly organises and displays the extent to which the economics profession has successfully dealt with one of its thorniest problems - the valuing of goods and services that are not normally priced in markets. Secondly, the volumes awaken in the reader an appreciation for the challenges that still lie ahead. As a result, Wills and Garrod deserve a valued place in every environmental and resource economist’s library.’ -- Richard F. Kazmierczak, Jr., American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsTable of ContentsContents Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Kenneth G. Willis and Guy D. Garrod PART I OPPORTUNITY COST 1. Michael Norton-Griffiths and Clive Southey (1995), ‘The Opportunity Costs of Biodiversity Conservation in Kenya’ 2. Richard T. Carson, Phoebe Koundouri and Céline Nauges (2011), ‘Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach’ 3. Claire A. Montgomery, Gardner M. Brown, Jr. and Darius M. Adams (1994), ‘The Marginal Costs of Species Preservation: The Northern Spotted Owl’ PART II TRAVEL-COST 4. KyeongAe Choe, Dale Whittington and Donald T. Lauria (1996), ‘The Economic Benefits of Surface Water Quality Improvements in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Davao, Philippines’ 5. Daniel M. Hellerstein (1991), ‘Using Count Data Models in Travel Cost Analysis with Aggregate Data’ 6. Nick Hanley, David Bell and Begona Alvarez-Farizo (2003), ‘Valuing the Benefits of Coastal Water Quality Improvements Using Contingent and Real Behaviour’ PART III HEDONIC PRICE 7. Maureen L. Cropper, Leland Deck, Nalin Kishor and Kenneth E. McConnell (1993), ‘Valuing Product Attributes Using Single Market Data: A Comparison of Hedonic and Discrete Choice Approaches’ 8. Iain R. Lake, Andrew A. Lovett, Ian J. Bateman and Brett Day (2000), ‘Using GIS and Large-Scale Digital Data to Implement Hedonic Pricing Studies’ 9. Brett Day, Ian Bateman and Iain Lake (2007), ‘Beyond Implicit Prices: Recovering Theoretically Consistent and Transferable Values for Noise Avoidance from a Hedonic Property Price Model’ PART IV CONTINGENT VALUATION 10. John P. Hoehn (1991), ‘Valuing the Multidimensional Impacts of Environmental Policy: Theory and Methods’ 11. Richard T. Carson, Nicholas E. Flores and Norman F. Meade (2001), ‘Contingent Valuation: Controversies and Evidence’ 12. Ian J. Bateman, Matthew Cole, Philip Cooper, Stavros Georgiou, David Hadley and Gregory L. Poe (2004), ‘On Visible Choice Sets and Scope Sensitivity’ 13. Nick Hanley, Felix Schläpfer and James Spurgeon (2003), ‘Aggregating the Benefits of Environmental Improvements: Distance-Decay Functions for Use and Non-Use Values’ 14. Mark Morrison and Thomas C. Brown (2009), ‘Testing the Effectiveness of Certainty Scales, Cheap Talk, and Dissonance-Minimization in Reducing Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation Studies’ 15. John A. List (2004), ‘Substitutability, Experience, and the Value Disparity: Evidence from the Market Place’ 16. Thomas Broberg (2010), ‘Income Treatment Effects in Contingent Valuation: The Case of the Swedish Predator Policy’ 17. Henrik Lindhjem and Ståle Navrud (2009), ‘Asking for Individual or Household Willingness to Pay for Environmental Goods? Implication for Aggregate Welfare Measures’ 18. Ian J. Bateman, Brett H. Day, Stavros Georgiou and Iain Lake (2006), ‘The Aggregation of Environmental Benefit Values: Welfare Measures, Distance Decay and Total WTP’ 19. Kent F. Kovacs and Douglas M. Larson (2008), ‘Identifying Individual Discount Rates and Valuing Public Open Space with Stated-Preference Models’ PART V CHOICE EXPERIMENTS 20. Kenneth E. Train (1998), ‘Recreation Demand Models with Taste Differences over People’ 21. Silvia Ferrini and Riccardo Scarpa (2007), ‘Designs with A-Priori Information for Nonmarket Valuation with Choice-Experiments: A Monte Carlo Study’ 22. J.R. DeShazo and German Fermo (2002), ‘Designing Choice Sets for Stated Preference Methods: The Effects of Complexity on Choice Consistency’ 23. Sebastián Caussade, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Luis I. Rizzi and David A. Hensher (2005), ‘Assessing the Influence of Design Dimensions on Stated Choice Estimates’ 24. Ian J. Bateman, Alistair Munro and Gregory L. Poe (2008), ‘Decoy Effects in Choice Experiments and Contingent Valuation: Asymmetric Dominance’ 25. Jürgen Meyerhoff and Ulf Liebe (2009), ‘Status Quo Effect in Choice Experiments: Empirical Evidence on Attitudes and Choice Task Complexity’ 26. Joan Mogas, Pere Riera and Jeff Bennett (2006), ‘A Comparison of Contingent Valuation and Choice Modelling with Second-Order Interactions’ 27. Roy Brouwer, Julia Martin-Ortega and Julio Berbel (2010), ‘Spatial Preference Heterogeneity: A Choice Experiment’ 28. Joffre Swait, Wiktor Adamowicz and Martin van Bueren (2004), ‘Choice and Temporal Welfare Impacts: Incorporating History into Discrete Choice Models’ PART VI ANOMALIES, COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND OTHER ISSUES 29. Jason F. Shogren and Laura O. Taylor (2008), ‘On Behavioral-Environmental Economics’ 30. Graham Loomes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden (2003), ‘Do Anomalies Disappear in Repeated Markets?’ 31. Charles R. Plott and Kathryn Zeiler (2005), ‘The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the “Endowment Effect”, Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations’ 32. John A. List (2002), ‘Preference Reversals of a Different Kind: The “More is Less” Phenomenon’ 33. Susan Chilton, Judith Covey, Lorraine Hopkins, Michael Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes, Nick Pidgeon and Anne Spencer (2002), ‘Public Perceptions of Risk and Preference-Based Values of Safety’ 34. Trudy Ann Cameron (2010), ‘Euthanizing the Value of a Statistical Life’ 35. Simon Dietz and Giles Atkinson (2010), ‘The Equity-Efficiency Trade-off in Environmental Policy: Evidence from Stated Preferences’ 36. John B. Loomis (2011), ‘Incorporating Distributional Issues into Benefit Cost Analysis: Why, How, and Two Empirical Examples Using Non-market Valuation’ 37. Sergio Colombo and Nick Hanley (2008), ‘How Can We Reduce the Errors from Benefits Transfer? An Investigation Using the Choice Experiment Method’ Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I PART I AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES 1. Alan Randall (2002), ‘Valuing the Outputs of Multifunctional Agriculture’ 2. Roy Brouwer and Louis H.G. Slangen (1998), ‘Contingent Valuation of the Public Benefits of Agricultural Wildlife Management: The Case of Dutch Peat Meadow Land’ 3. Riccardo Scarpa, Eric S.K. Ruto, Patti Kristjanson, Maren Radeny, Adam G. Drucker and John E.O. Rege (2003), ‘Valuing Indigenous Cattle Breeds in Kenya: An Empirical Comparison of Stated and Revealed Preference Value Estimates’ 4. Eric Ruto and Guy Garrod (2009), ‘Investigating Farmers’ Preferences for the Design of Agri-Enviroment Schemes: A Choice Experiment Approach’ PART II BIODIVERSITY 5. R. David Simpson, Roger A. Sedjo and John W. Reid (1996), ‘Valuing Biodiversity for Use in Pharmaceutical Research’ 6. Paulo A.L.D. Nunes and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh (2001), ‘Economic Valuation of Biodiversity: Sense or Nonsense?’ 7. David Pearce (2007), ‘Do We Really Care About Biodiversity?’ PART III ECOSYSTEMS 8. Stephen C. Farber, Robert Costanza and Matthew A. Wilson (2002), ‘Economic and Ecological Concepts for Valuing Ecosystem Services’ 9. Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Frykblom and Carolina Liljenstolpe (2003), ‘Valuing Wetland Attributes: An Application of Choice Experiments’ 10. Luke M. Brander, Raymond J.G.M. Florax and Jan E. Vermaat (2006), ‘The Empirics of Wetland Valuation: A Comprehensive Summary and a Meta-Analysis of the Literature’ PART IV LANDSCAPE AND PARKS 11. Matías González and Carmelo J. León (2003), ‘Consumption Process and Multiple Valuation of Landscape Attributes’ 12. Danny Campbell (2007), ‘Willingness to Pay for Rural Landscape Improvements: Combining Mixed Logit and Random-Effects Models’ 13. K.G. Willis (2003), ‘Pricing Public Parks’ 14. Robin Naidoo and Wiktor L. Adamowicz (2005), ‘Biodiversity and Nature-Based Tourism at Forest Reserves in Uganda’ PART V CULTURE 15. John Rolfe and Jill Windle (2003), ‘Valuing the Protection of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Sites’ 16. Edward Morey and Kathleen Greer Rossmann (2003), ‘Using Stated-Preference Questions to Investigate Variations in Willingness to Pay for Preserving Marble Monuments: Classic Heterogeneity, Random Parameters, and Mixture Models’ 17. Peter V. Schaeffer and Cecily Ahern Millerick (1991), ‘The Impact of Historic District Designation on Property Values: An Empirical Study’ 18. David Maddison and Terry Foster (2003), ‘Valuing Congestion Costs in the British Museum’ PART VI AIR QUALITY 19. V. Kerry Smith and Ju-Chin Huang (1995), ‘Can Markets Value Air Quality? A Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Property Value Models’ 20. Neil A. Powe and Kenneth G. Willis (2004), ‘Mortality and Morbidity Benefits of Air Pollution (SO2 and PM10) Absorption Attributable to Woodland in Britain’ 21. Ari Rabl, Joseph V. Spadaro and Bob van der Zwaan (2005), ‘Uncertainty of Air Pollution Cost Estimates: To What Extent Does It Matter?’ PART VII WASTE DISPOSAL SITES 22. V. Kerry Smith and William H. Desvousges (1986), ‘The Value of Avoiding a Lulu: Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites’ 23. Robin R. Jenkins, Kelly B. Maguire and Cynthia L. Morgan (2004), ‘Host Community Compensation and Municipal Solid Waste Landfills’ PART VIII CONTAMINATED LAND 24. Larry Dale, James C. Murdoch, Mark A. Thayer and Paul A. Waddell (1999), ‘Do Property Values Rebound from Environmental Stigmas? Evidence from Dallas’ 25. Joachim Zietz, Emily Norman Zietz and G. Stacy Sirmans (2008), ‘Determinants of House Prices: A Quantile Regression Approach’ 26. Arianto A. Patunru, John B. Braden and Sudip Chattopadhyay (2007), ‘Who Cares About Environmental Stigmas and Does it Matter? A Latent Segmentation Analysis of Stated Preferences for Real Estate’ 27. Andrey Kalugin, Satrou Komatsu, Shinji Kaneko and Olena Slozko (2010), ‘Citizens’ Perception of Past Environmental Damage and Liability in Countries with Transition: Evidence from Kemerovo, Russia’ 28. Anna Alberini, Stefania Tonin, Margherita Turvani and Aline Chiabai (2007), ‘Paying for Permanence: Public Preferences for Contaminated Site Cleanup’ PART IX ENERGY 29. David Revelt and Kenneth Train (1998), ‘Mixed Logit with Repeated Choices of Households’ Choices of Appliance Efficiency Level’ 30. Riccardo Scarpa and Ken Willis (2010), ‘Willingness-to-Pay for Renewable Energy: Primary and Discretionary Choice of British Households’ for Micro-Generation Technologies’ 31. David Pearce (2003), ‘The Social Cost of Carbon and its Policy Implications’ PART X MARINE 32. Sturla Furunes Kvamsdal and Leif Kristoffer Sandal (2008), ‘The Premium of Marine Protected Areas: A Simple Valuation Model’ 33. Timothy C. Haab, Marcia Hamilton and Kenneth E. McConnell (2008), ‘Small Boat Fishing in Hawaii: A Random Utility Model of Ramp and Ocean Destinations’ 34. Christopher G. Leggett and Nancy E. Bockstael (2000), ‘Evidence of the Effects of Water Quality on Residential Land Prices’ 35. Nesha Beharry-Borg, David A. Hensher and Riccardo Scarpa (2009), ‘An Analytical Framework for Joint vs Separate Decisions by Couples in Choice Experiments: The Case of Coastal Water Quality in Tobago’ PART XI WATER 36. R.A. Hope and G.D. Garrod (2004), ‘Household Preferences to Water Policy Interventions in Rural South Africa’ 37. Kenneth G. Willis, Riccardo Scarpa and Melinda Acutt (2005), ‘Assessing Water Company Customer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Service Improvements: A Stated Choice Analysis’ 38. Nick Hanley, Robert E. Wright and Begona Alvarez-Farizo (2006), ‘Estimating the Economic Value of Improvements in River Ecology Using Choice Experiments: An Application to the Water Framework Directive’ PART XII PLANNING 39. Kenneth G. Willis (2006), ‘Assessing Public Preferences: The Use of Stated-Preference Experiments to Assess the Impact of Varying Planning Conditions’ 40. Guy D. Garrod, Riccardo Scarpa and Kenneth G. Willis (2002), ‘Estimating the Benefits of Traffic Calming on Through Routes: A Choice Experiment Approach’ 41. Anna Alberini, Alberto Longo, Stefania Tonin, Francesco Trombetta and Margherita Turvani (2005), ‘The Role of Liability, Regulation and Economic Incentives in Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment: Evidence from Surveys of Developers’
£639.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Environmental Accounting Elgar
Book SynopsisThis concise Handbook examines welfare measurement problems in a dynamic economy, focusing on the welfare-economic foundations for social accounting.Trade Review‘In a world that is possibly threatened by catastrophic climate changes it is more important than ever to augment and modify current systems of national accounts so as to measure welfare in a dynamic context, i.e. move towards social accounting. This outstanding text written by leading names in the field covers all essential aspects of dynamic welfare theory and also goes beyond pure theory by providing discussion of how to go from theory to application.’ -- Per-Olov Johansson, Stockholm School of Economics, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. An Introduction to the Theory of Social Accounting Thomas Aronsson and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren 2. The Money Metrics Problem in Dynamic Welfare Analysis Karl-Gustaf Löfgren 3. Welfare Measurement, Hyperbolic Discounting and Paternalism Kenneth Backlund and Tomas Sjögren 4. Dynamic Endogenous Risk and Social Accounting Ram Ranjan and Jason F. Shogren 5. Welfare Measurement and Public Goods in a Second-best Economy Thomas Aronsson 6. How are Green National Accounts Produced in Practice? Eva Samakovlis 7. The Theory of Dynamic Cost–Benefit Analysis: Some Recent Advances Chuan-Zhong Li 8. Some Dynamic Economic Consequences of the Climate-Sensitivity Inference Dilemma Martin L. Weitzman 9. Sustainable Consumption Programs John M. Hartwick 10. The Relationship Between Welfare Measures and Indicators of Sustainable Development Geir B. Asheim 11. Genuine Saving, Social Welfare and Rules for Sustainability Kirk Hamilton Index
£38.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd CostBenefit Analysis and Distributional
Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking study illustrates and enhances the potential of cost–benefit analysis as a tool for decision-making. While the case study is focused on natural resource management and environmental policy, the conceptual and methodological advances illustrated by the authors are relevant and applicable to a wider array of policy deliberations.Trade ReviewHelen Scarborough and Jeff Bennett have produced a work that is genuinely path-breaking. As is often the case with path-breaking work, the idea is simple enough: if people can respond to choice experiments in ways that tell us a lot about what they value and how much they value it, why would they not be able to respond to choice experiments where the options offered have different distributional consequences? Such simple ideas evade implementation not because they are so hard to think up, but because it is so easy to dismiss them as unthinkable. All credit goes to Scarborough and Bennett for busting through this particular unthinkability barrier... [The authors] may be surprised by the magnitude and the nature of the impact this work eventually enjoys. - --From the foreword by Alan Randall, The University of Sydney, Australia and The Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Distribution and Environmental Policy 2. Distributional Weighting and Cost–Benefit Analysis 3. Choice Modelling and Distributional Preferences 4. Case Study: Design of Intergenerational Distribution Choice Experiment 5. Case Study: Results of Intergenerational Distribution Choice Experiment 6. Choice Modelling and Distributional Preferences: Challenges and Opportunities Bibliography Index
£82.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Sustainable Development Evaluation and
Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking book contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. It does so by combining the two issues of policy evaluation and sustainable development linking both to the policy-cycle.Trade Review‘Compared to other collections in this ?eld, Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making, Theory, Practise and Quality Assurance is straightforward in its style and writing. . . There are no strange hypotheses, no jargon, no digressions, and no endless dis-cussion. The quality of the argumentation deployed here is impressive: the notes, ?gures, and remarks about research results are detailed and carefully crafted.’ -- Yves Laberge, Science & Public Policy‘This thought-provoking and wide-ranging handbook covers a very wide range of multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development and is a worthy addition to the bookshelf of those working in this area, whether they be evaluators, researchers, students or indeed the policy-makers themselves.’ -- Keith Dawson, Experimental AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Frieder Rubik, Anneke von Raggamby and Anna Hirschbeck PART I: PERCEPTION OF SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEMS 1. Understanding Sustainability Evaluation and its Contributions to Policy-Making Reinhard Stockmann 2. How to Select Policy-Relevant Indicators for Sustainable Development Frank J. Dietz and Albert H. Hanemaaijer 3. Should Evaluation be Revisited for Sustainable Development? Wolfgang Meyer PART II: POLICY FORMATION: THE ROLE OF EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT 4. A Basic Roadmap for Sustainability Assessments: The SIMPLE Methodology Candice Stevens 5. Political Challenges in Policy-Level Evaluation for Sustainable Development: The Case of Trade Policy Clive George and Colin Kirkpatrick 6. Integrated Approaches for Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Tools: The Example of Land Use Katharina Helming, Ignacio de la Flor and Katharina Diehl 7. Politics of (Non-)Knowledge: Problems of Evaluation, Validity and Legitimacy Stefan Böschen PART III: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENT APPLICATION AREAS 8. How Informed Should Decisions Be? Stephen White and Jakub Koniecki 9. Impact Assessment in the European Union: The Continuation of Politics by Other Means? Anne C.M. Meuwese 10. Science-Policy Interface and the Role of Impact Assessments in the Case of Biofuels Bernd Hirschl, Timo Kaphengst, Anna Neumann and Katharina Umpfenbach PART IV: POLICY REFORMULATION: MONITORING AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 11. Indicators as an Appraisal Technology: Framework for Analysing the Policy Influence of the UK Energy Sector Indicators Markku Lehtonen PART V: QUALITY AND EVALUATION 12. Quality Requirements for Sustainability Evaluations Anneke von Raggamby, Frieder Rubik, Doris Knoblauch and Rebecca Stecker 13. Bellagio SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles (BellagioSTAMP) – Significance and Examples from International Environmental Outlooks Jan Bakkes 14. Evaluation Quality in the Context of Sustainability Thomas Widmer 15. Developing and Mapping a Community for Evaluating Sustainable Development André Martinuzzi Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Waste Management Elgar Original
Book SynopsisConsisting primarily of empirical research efforts – although theoretical underpinnings are also explored thoroughly – the Handbook serves to further the understanding of the behaviors of waste generators and waste processors and the array of policies influencing these behaviors.Table of ContentsContents: 1. The History and Future of Municipal Solid Waste Characterization: New York City and the Study of Fortunes in Refuse Samantha MacBride PART I: BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 2. Is There a Social Norm to Recycle? Andrew Abbott, Shasikanta Nandeibam and Lucy O’Shea 3. Household Waste Management: Waste Generation, Recycling and Waste Prevention Isa Ferrara and Paul Missios 4. Environmental Volunteer Activities in Local Waste Management Shigeru Matsumoto 5. Household Preferences for Alternative Trash and Recycling Services in Small Towns: Is Single Stream the Future of Rural Recycling? Christopher Wright, John M. Halstead and Ju-Chin Huang PART II: FRONTIERS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 6. Does the NIMBY Strategy Really Promote a Self-interest? Evidence from England’s Waste Management Policy Masashi Yamamoto and Yuichiro Yoshida 7. Industrial Waste Shipments and Trade Restrictions Toshiaki Sasao 8. International Aspects of Waste Management: The Waste Haven Effect on Global Reuse Hide-Fumi Yokoo 9. An Initiative Towards Curbing the Usage of Plastic Bags in Supermarkets: A Case Study in Chennai, India Sukanya Das and Nethravathi Prasad 10. Waste Management Beyond the Italian North–South Divide: Spatial Analyses of Geographical, Economic and Institutional Dimensions Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini PART III: ADVANCES IN WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 11. Waste Management in the Netherlands Elbert Dijkgraaf and Raymond Gradus 12. Do Not Miss the Opportunity! When to Introduce Monetary Incentives Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan 13. Optimal Trade and Recycling Policies in Vertically Related Markets Hajime Sugeta and Takayoshi Shinkuma 14. Factors in Determining Demand for Reusable Glass Bottles Daisuke Numata 15. Double Asymmetry of Information in a Waste Treatment Contract Daisuke Ichinose and Eiji B. Hosoda 16. Size and Density Economies in Refuse Collection Graziano Abrate, Fabrizio Erbetta, Giovanni Fraquelli and Davide Vannoni Index
£175.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Urban Form and Transport Accessibility
Book SynopsisThis important collection provides a foundational understanding of the debates surrounding urban form and the ability of land use policy to deliver the preferred urban form. Professor Mulley has selected key published articles from disciplines at the interface of urban economics and transport economics.Trade Review‘This collection of seminal papers reflects on the long history of research on urban form and transport accessibility, and it includes contributions from many of the most influential thinkers in urban and regional science. Now they have all been assembled in a single volume that is accessible to all researchers – it provides an invaluable resource.’Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Corinne Mulley PART I THEORIES OF URBAN FORM AND HIERARCHIES OF CITY SIZE 1. Walter Christaller (1972), ‘How I Discovered the Theory of Central Places: A Report about the Origin of Central Places’ 2. August Lösch (1938), ‘The Nature of Economic Regions’ 3. Chauncy D. Harris and Edward L. Ullman (1945), ‘The Nature of Cities’ 4. Brian J.L. Berry and William L. Garrison (1958), ‘Recent Developments of Central Place Theory’ 5. Martin J. Beckmann (1958), ‘City Hierarchies and the Distribution of City Size’ 6. J.V. Henderson (1974), ‘The Sizes and Types of Cities’ PART II CONTRIBUTION OF THE ‘NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY’ 7. Brian J.L. Berry (1964), ‘Cities as Systems within Systems of Cities’ 8. Paul Krugman (1991), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’ 9. Masahisa Fujita and Paul Krugman (1995), ‘When is the Economy Monocentric?: von Thünen and Chamberlin Unified’ 10. Masahisa Fujita and Tomoya Mori (1997), ‘Structural Stability and Evolution of Urban Systems’ 11. Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Tomoya Mori (1999), ‘On the Evolution of Hierarchical Urban Systems’ 12. Takatoshi Tabuchi and Jacques-François Thisse (2011), ‘A New Economic Geography Model of Central Places’ PART III INTRA-URBAN LOCATION 13. Harold Hotelling (1929), ‘Stability in Competition’ 14. William Alonso (1960), ‘A Theory of the Urban Land Market’ 15. Waltar Isard and Tony E. Smith (1967), ‘Location Gāmes: With Applications to Classic Location Problems’ 16. Michael A. Goldberg (1970), ‘Transportation, Urban Land Values, and Rents: A Synthesis’ 17. Robert H. Nelson (1973), ‘Accessibility and Rent: Applying Becker’s “Time Price” Concept to the Theory of Residential Location’ 18. Robert M. Solow (1972), ‘Congestion, Density and the Use of Land in Transportation’ 19. Edwin S. Mills (1972), ‘Markets and Efficient Resource Allocation in Urban Areas’ 20. Gerald S. Goldstein and Leon N. Moses (1973), ‘A Survey of Urban Economics’ 21. Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga (2000), ‘Diversity and Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When Does it Matter?’ 22. Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall (1996), ‘Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity’ 23. J. Vernon Henderson (2003), ‘Marshall’s Scale Economies’ 24. Patricia C. Melo, Daniel J. Graham and Robert B. Noland (2009), ‘A Meta-analysis of Estimates of Urban Agglomeration Economies’ 25. Anthony J. Venables (2007), ‘Evaluating Urban Transport Improvements: Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Presence of Agglomeration and Income Taxation’ PART IV ACCESSIBILITY MEASUREMENT 26. Walter G. Hansen (1959), ‘How Accessibility Shapes Land Use’ 27. A.G. Wilson (1971), ‘A Family of Spatial Interaction Models, and Associated Developments’ 28. Chauncy D. Harris (1954), ‘The Market as a Factor in the Localization of Industry in the United States’ 29. C. Clark, F. Wilson and J. Bradley (1969), ‘Industrial Location and Economic Potential in Western Europe’ 30. J.M. Morris, P.L. Dumble and M.R. Wigan (1979), ‘Accessibility Indicators for Transport Planning’ 31. R.W. Vickerman (1974), ‘Accessibility, Attraction, and Potential: A Review of Some Concepts and their Use in Determining Mobility’ PART V THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE 32. P.M. Allen and M. Sanglier (1979), ‘A Dynamic Model of Growth in a Central Place System’ 33. Francesca Medda, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld (2003), ‘Urban Land Use for Transport Systems and City Shapes’ 34. Daniel J. Graham (2007), ‘Variable Returns to Agglomeration and the Effect of Road Traffic Congestion’
£285.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources
Book SynopsisThe topics discussed in the Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources are essential for those looking to understand how best to use and conserve the resources that form the foundation for human well-being.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know how the field of Natural Resource Economics - broadly defined - has progressed over the past 20 years, and where it is headed in the future. It is an excellent collection of papers on the subject.' --Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland, College Park and Resources for the Future'With contributions by leading scholars in the field, this book surveys key concepts, methodologies and results from the important field of natural resource economics. The chapters are rigorous and sophisticated, but at the same time accessible to anyone with some graduate-level training in economics. They include both theoretical presentations and real-world discussions that tie the theory to critical resource challenges facing the world today. I highly recommend this either as a textbook for a graduate class in natural resource economics or as a key resource for anyone wanting an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in this field.' --Kathleen Segerson, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsContents: PART I NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES 1. Basic Economics of Nonrenewable Resource Use John M. Hartwick 2. The Hotelling Model with Multiple Demands Gérard Gaudet and Stephen W. Salant 3. Empirical Evidence on the Theory of Nonrenewable Resource Economics John Livernois and Henry Thille 4. The Taxation of Nonrenewable Natural Resources Gérard Gaudet and Pierre Lasserre 5. Rent Taxes and Royalties in Designing Fiscal Regimes for Nonrenewable Resources Robin Boadway and Michael Keen 6. The Political Basis of the Resource Curse Richard M. Auty PART II MODELING OF BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES 7. Bioeconomics: Nature as Capital Eli P. Fenichel, Sathya Gopalakrishnan and Onon Bayasgalan 8. The Forest Harvesting Problem: Have We Reached the Limit of Our Understanding? Gregory S. Amacher 9. Biological Resistance Ramanan Laxminarayan and Markus Herrmann PART III CONSERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES 10. Structuring Rights and Privileges in Catch Share Systems Daniel Holland 11. Spatial Economics of Forest Conservation Heidi J. Albers and Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson 12. Ecosystem Services Edward B. Barbier 13. Conservation Prioritization Using Reserve Site Selection Methods Stephen C. Newbold and Juha Siikamaki PART IV WATER RESOURCES 14. Water Economics R. Quentin Grafton and Sarah Wheeler 15. Water Rate Policy: Prescription and Practice Ronald Griffin 16. Water Institutions and the Law of One Price Eric C. Edwards and Gary D. Libecap 17. Water Quality and Economics: Willingness to Pay, Efficiency, Cost-effectiveness, and New Research Frontiers Yusuke Kuwayama and Sheila Olmstead 18. Transboundary Water Issues Edward B. Barbier and Anik Bhaduri Index
£213.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Environmental Regulation
Book SynopsisFeaturing an original introduction by the editors, this important collection of essays explores the main issues surrounding the regulation of the environment. The articles highlight the fact that despite differences in the UK and the USA's regulatory styles, environmental regulation today has much in common with both traditions.Trade Review‘As editors of this wide-ranging and insightful volume, Professor John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney have compiled an important collection of essays and leaned articles gleaned mainly from a selection of influential and authoritative academic journals from both sides of the Atlantic and worldwide as well. . . As part of the Elgar Research Collection, this is definitely a book for academics and scholars as well as environmental lawyers who will appreciate its comparative law orientation and emphasis. Also to be appreciated by researchers is the copious footnoting throughout, which contains a wealth of reference sources. In all, the book is a valuable and richly resourced contribution to the literature of environmental law.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Regulating the Environment: 21st Century Challenges John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney PART I ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE 1. Daniel Barstow Magraw and Lisa D. Hawke (2007), ‘Sustainable Development’ 2. Daniel A. Farber (2011), ‘The Challenge of Climate Change Adaption: Learning from National Planning Efforts in Britain, China, and the USA’ PART II MODELS OF REGULATION, PRECAUTION AND RISK 3. David Vogel (1986), ‘Government Regulation in Great Britain and the United States’ 4. Neil Carter and Philip Lowe (1994), ‘Environmental Politics and Administrative Reform’ 5. Neil Gunningham (2009), ‘Environmental Law, Regulation and Governance: Shifting Architectures’ 6. Jonathan B. Wiener (2007), ‘Precaution’ 7. Priscilla Schwartz (2010), ‘The Polluter-Pays Principle’ 8. Elizabeth Fisher, Pasky Pascual and Wendy Wagner (2010), ‘Understanding Environmental Models in Their Legal and Regulatory Context’ 9. Jane Holder (2004), ‘Tracking Environmental Assessment’ PART III ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 10. Maria Carmen Lemos and Arun Agrawal (2006), ‘Environmental Governance’ 11. Steven Bernstein (2005), ‘Legitimacy in Global Environmental Governance’ 12. Elizabeth A. Kirk and Kirsty L. Blackstock (2011), ‘Enhanced Decision Making: Balancing Public Participation against “Better Regulation” in British Environmental Permitting Regimes’ 13. Tony Prosser (2010), ‘The Environmental Agency’ 14. Richard Macrory (2012), ‘Environmental Regulation as an Instrument of Constitutional Change’ 15. Neil Gunningham (2011), ‘Enforcing Environmental Regulation’ 16. Michael G. Faure and Katarina Svatikova (2012), ‘Criminal or Administrative Law to Protect the Environment? Evidence from Western Europe’ 17. Benjamin J. Richardson (2009), ‘Climate Finance and its Governance: Moving to a Low Carbon Economy Through Socially Responsible Financing?’ PART IV ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ACROSS SECTORS 18. Veerle Heyvaert (2011), ‘Governing Climate Change: Towards a New Paradigm for Risk Regulation’ 19. Hans Vedder (2010), ‘The Treaty of Lisbon and European Environmental Law and Policy’ 20. Gerd Winter (2010), ‘The Climate is No Commodity: Taking Stock of the Emissions Trading System’ 21. William Howarth (2009), ‘Aspiration and Realities under the Water Framework Directive: Proceduralisation, Participation and Practicalities’ 22. Joanne Scott (2009), ‘REACH: Combining Harmonization and Dynamism in the Regulation of Chemicals’ 23. Jill Wakefield (2012), ‘Common Fisheries Policy Reform and Sustainability’ PART V REGULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS 24. Jan Hancock (2003), ‘The Human Right to Natural Resources’ 25. Ole W. Pedersen (2010), ‘Environmental Principles and Environmental Justice’, PART VI ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 26. Roger Brownsword (2010), ‘The Age of Regulatory Governance and Nanotechnologies’ 27. Colin Scott (2007), ‘Rethinking Regulatory Governance for the Age of Biotechnology’ 28. Maria Lee (2008), ‘GMOs in the EU: The Scope of the Debate’ PART VII ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 29. Philippe Cullet (2010), ‘Environment and Development – The Missing Link’ 30. Jingchen Zhao (2012), ‘The Harmonious Society, Corporate Social Responsibility and Legal Responses to Ethical Norms in Chinese Company Law’ 31. V.K. Agarwal (2005), ‘Environmental Laws in India: Challenges for Enforcement’ 32. Rohan Mukherjee and David M. Malone (2011), ‘Global Responsibilities: India’s Approach’ PART VIII 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION 33. Elizabeth Fisher, Bettina Lange, Eloise Scotford and Cinnamon Carlarne (2009), ‘Maturity and Methodology: Starting a Debate about Environmental Law Scholarship’ 34. Julia Black (2012), ‘Paradoxes and Failures: “New Governance”, Techniques and the Financial Crisis’
£408.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Handbook on the Economics of Energy
Book SynopsisThemes addressed include the theory of energy supply, demand and policy, empirical modelling of energy demand, holistic energy models, an analysis of coal, gas, electricity, oil and the `markets’ within which they operate, and a discussion of the current key energy policy issues.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Joanne Evans and Lester C Hunt 1. A Brief History of Energy Roger Fouquet 2. The Theory of Energy Economics: An Overview Thomas Weyman-Jones 3. The Economics of Energy Supply Kenneth B. Medlock III 4. The Theory and Practice of Energy Policy Richard L. Gordon 5. Energy Demand Theory Kenneth B. Medlock III 6. Empirical Modelling of Energy Demand David L. Ryan and André Plourde 7. Economics of Energy Efficiency Grant Allan, Michelle Gilmartin, Peter McGregor, J. Kim Swales and Karen Turner 8. Theoretical Foundations of the Rebound Effect Harry Saunders 9. The Rebound Effect: Definition and Estimation Steve Sorrell 10. Modelling Energy Savings and Environmental Benefits from Energy Policies and New Technologies David L. Ryan and Denise Young 11. Bottom-up Models of Energy: Across the Spectrum Lorna A. Greening and Chris Bataille 12. The Structure and Use of the UK MARKAL Model Ramachandran Kannan, Paul Ekins and Neil Strachan 13. Combining Top Down and Bottom Up in Energy Economy Models Mark Jaccard 14. Computable General Equilibrium Models for the Analysis of Energy and Climate Policies Ian Sue Wing 15. Energy–Economy–Environment Modelling: A Survey Claudia Kemfert and Truong Truong 16. The Oil Security Problem Hillard G. Huntington 17. Petroleum Taxation Carole Nakhle 18. The Behaviour of Petroleum Markets: Fundamentals and Psychologicals in Price Discovery and Formation Dalton Garis 19. The Prospects for Coal in the Twenty-first Century Richard L. Gordon 20. Natural Gas and Electricity Markets W.D. Walls 21. Incentive Regulation of Energy Networks Thomas Weyman-Jones 22. The Economics and Regulation of Power Transmission and Distribution: The Developed World Case Lullit Getachew and Mark N. Lowry 23. The Market Structure of the Power Transmission and Distribution Industry in the Developed World Lullit Getachew 24. Mechanisms for the Optimal Expansion of Electricity Transmission Networks Juan Rosellón 25. Efficiency Measurement in the Electricity and Gas Distribution Sectors Mehdi Farsi and Massimo Filippini 26. Wholesale Electricity Markets and Generators’ Incentives: An International Review Dmitri Perekhodtsev and Seth Blumsack 27. Security of Supply in Large Hydropower Systems: The Brazilian Case Luciano Losekann, Adilson de Oliveira and Getúlio Borges da Silveira 28. Electricity Retail Competition and Pricing: An International Review Seth Blumsack and Dmitri Perekhodtsev 29. Emissions Trading and the Convergence of Electricity and Transport Markets in Australia Luke J. Reedman and Paul W. Graham 30. International Energy Derivatives Markets Ronald D. Ripple 31. The Economics of Energy in Developing Countries Reinhard Madlener 33. Energy Vision to Address Energy Security and Climate Change Christoph W. Frei 33. Current Issues in the Design of Energy Policy Thomas Weyman-Jones Index
£58.85
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook recognises the emergence of climate change as the defining topic of our time. With public climate discourse growing more urgent every year, this Handbook brings together international experts from different economic disciplines to answer critical climate policy questions.Trade Review'More fruitful interaction between economists and political scientists studying possible policy responses to climate change is long overdue. With this volume of 18 essays, co-editors Chichilnisky and Rezai, along with 32 other distinguished writers, do much to facilitate invaluable progress toward a virtuous circle of mutually reinforcing economic and political analyses.' --Peter J. Hammond, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Section I: The Political Economy of Climate Change and Climate Policy 1. Distributional Issues in Climate Policy: Air Quality Co-benefits and Carbon Rent James K. Boyce 2. Evaluating Policies to Implement the Paris Agreement: A Toolkit with Application to China Ian Parry, Baoping Shang, Nate Vernon, Philippe Windeger and Tarun Narasimhan 3. Bargaining to Lose: A Permeability Approach to Post-Transition Resource Extraction Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal 4. Host-MNC Relations in Resource-Rich Countries Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal and Geoffrey M. Heal 5. Bargaining to Lose the Global Commons Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal and Graciela Chichilnisky Section II: Integrated Assessment Modelling 6.Integrated Assessment Models of climate change Chris Hope 7. Climate Change Policy under Spatial Heat Transport and Polar Amplification William Brock and Anastasios Xepapadeas 8. Progressive adaptation strategies in European coastal cities: a response to flood-risk under uncertainty Luis M. Abadie, Elisa Sainz de Murieta, Ibon Galarraga and Anil Markandya 9. Economic Growth and the Social Cost of Carbon: Additive versus Multiplicative Damages Armon Rezai, Frederick van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen 10. Optimal Global Climate Policy and Regional Carbon Prices Mark Budolfson and Francis Dennig 11. Tipping and Reference Points in Climate Change Games Alessandro Tavoni and Doruk Iris Section III: Climate Change and Sustainability 12. Climate Change, Malthus and Collapse Norman Schofield 13. Greenhouse Gas and Cyclical Growth Lance Taylor and Duncan Foley 14. Growth and Sustainability Robin Hahnel 15. Intergenerational altruism: A solution to the climate problem? Frikk Nesje and Geir Asheim 16. On Intertemporal Equity and Efficiency in a Model of Global Warming John Hartwick and Tapan Mitra 17. Transformational change: Parallels for addressing climate and development goals Penny Mealy and Cameron Hepburn 18. Less precision, more truth: Uncertainty in climate economics and macroprudential policy Cameron Hepburn and J. Doyne Farmer Index
£214.00
Wiley Conservation of Biological Resources
Book Synopsis* The first book to examine the issues underlying the sustainable use debate in a fully interdisciplinary manner. Both the theoretical section and the case studies approach the issues using methods from economics, ecology, anthropology and other fields.Trade Review"The book's coverage of ecological and economic theory of sustainable use, decision-making and practical considerations when applying the theory is beautifully done and very readable....... this fine volume is sure to be important and will set a standard for truly interdisciplinary work in conservation biology." Nature Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction to Biological Conservation and Sustainable Use. Part II: Theoretical Background. The Ecological and Economic Theory of Sustainable Harvesting. Harvesting and Ecological Realities. Decision-Making by Users of Natural Resources. Practical Considerations when Applying the Theory. Part III: Case Studies. Sustainable Use as a Conservation Tool in the Forests of South-East Asia (Kathy Mackinnon). Will Bigleaf Mahogany Be Conserved Through Sustainable Use? (R E Gullison). Cosiguina, Nicaragua: A Case Study in Community-Based Management of Wildlife (Vivienne Solis Rivera and Stephen R Edwards). Sustainability of the Falkland Islands Loligo Squid Fishery (Sophie des Clers). Recreational Use of Coral Reefs in the Maldives and Caribbean (Andrew R G Price, Callum M Roberts and Julie P Hawkins). A Century of Change in the Central Luangwa Valley of Zambia (Joel Freehling and Stuart A Marks). The Economics of Wildlife Conservation Policy in Kenya (M Norton-Griffiths). Gorilla Tourism: A Critical Look (Thomas M Butynski and Jan Kalina). Caribou and Muskox Harvesting in the Northwest Territories (Anne Gunn). Hunting of Game Mammals in the Soviet Union (Leonid M Baskin). Part IV: Making Conservation Work. Making Conservation Work. References. Glossary of Terms. Index.
£84.56
The Peterson Institute for International Economics Sustaining the Asia Pacific Miracle
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics NAFTA and Climate Change
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