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  • Advanced Introduction to Ecological Economics

    by Matthias Ruth ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.'Ecological economics has roots in numerous disciplines including various ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Modeling Dynamic Economic Systems

    by Matthias Ruth, Bruce Hannon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the dynamic processes in economic systems, concentrating on the extraction and use of the natural resources required to meet economic needs. Sections cover methods for dynamic modeling in economics, microeconomic models of firms, modeling optimal use of both nonrenewable and renewable resources, and chaos in economic models. This book does not require a substantial background in ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Environmental Economics

    Concepts, Methods and Policies

    by Dodo J. Thampapillai, Matthias Ruth ...
    Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital.Pivoting around the first and second laws of thermodynamics, as well as the principles of ecological resilience, this book is divided into five key parts, ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Creating Low Carbon Cities

    Edited by Shobhakar Dhakal, Matthias Ruth ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally. Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key factors required for creating low carbon cities. These include appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefits of climate actions, making best use of knowledge and information, proper accounting of emissions, and ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems

    by Bruce Hannon, Matthias Ruth ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Many biologists and ecologists have developed models that find widespread use in theoretical investigations and in applications to organism behavior, disease control, population and metapopulation theory, ecosystem dynamics, and environmental management. This book captures and extends the process of model development by concentrating on the dynamic aspects of these processes and by providing the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Place-Based Evaluation for Integrated Land-Use Management

    by Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth ...
    In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such as housing, industry, environment and water. In other words, land-use planning and infrastructure ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Dynamic Modeling

    by Bruce Hannon, Matthias Ruth ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Computer models offer a means of interpreting and analyzing the dynamics of real-world systems ranging from population growth to ozone depletion and a new section on modeling in genetics. Dynamic Modeling introduces an approach to modeling that makes it a more practical, intuitive endeavor. The book enables readers to convert their understanding of a phenomenon to a computer model, and then to run ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Anti-Corruption

    Implementing Curriculum Change in Management Education

    by Wolfgang Amann, Ronald Berenbeim, Tay Keong Tan, Matthias Kleinhempel, Alfred Lewis, Ruth Nieffer, Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, Shiv Tripathi ...
    Series series The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series
    Successful businesses are built on trust. Employees and colleagues need to trust one another and they need to deserve and receive trust from customers and suppliers. Anti-Corruption provides resources for building trust through the implementation of comprehensive guidelines on how to professionalize ethics and anti-corruption education worldwide in a variety of classroom settings. It is written ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Sustainability

    A Systems Approach

    by Tony Clayton, Nicholas Radcliffe ...
    The question of sustainability affects most areas of human activity. It is intrinsically complex and multi-disciplinary. Sustainable policies have to adapt to new knowledge and changing circumstances. Understanding sustainability and ways of achieving it have to involve an understanding of complex adaptive systems and general systems theory - a rapidly developing new branch of social studies.;This ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Technological Change and the Environment

    Edited by Arnulf Grübler ...
    Much is written in the popular literature about the current pace of technological change. But do we have enough scientific knowledge about the sources and management of innovation to properly inform policymaking in technology dependent domains such as energy and the environment? While it is agreed that technological change does not 'fall from heaven like autumn leaves,' the theory, data, and ... Read more

    $281.99 CAD

  • The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change

    Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making

    by S. Niggol Seo ...
    The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies. Through quantitative analyses, case studies and policy examples, this bottom-up approach to ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • The Economics of Climate Change

    The Stern Review

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this challenge. The Stern Review is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD