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  • Managing without Growth, Second Edition

    Slower by Design, not Disaster

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet. This book explains why long-term economic growth is infeasible, and why, especially in advanced economies, it is also undesirable. Simulations based on real data show that managing without growth is a better ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Escape from Overshoot

    Economics for a Planet in Peril

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World

    His Life and Ideas

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    As the first biography of Professor Herman Daly, this book provides an in-depth account of one of the leading thinkers and most widely read writers on economics, environment and sustainability.Herman Daly’s economics for a full world, based on his steady-state economics, has been widely acknowledged through numerous prestigious international awards and prizes. Drawing on extensive interviews with ... Read more

    Was $57.99 USD Now $51.99 USD

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    Escape from Overshoot

    Economics for a Planet in Peril

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    Narrated by Robert Lawrenson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    Earth overshoot will end either by design or by disaster. Which future should we choose?Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of 8 billion humans combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of "progress" has stressed the planet beyond its limits. We must act now.Surveying economic alternatives and charting plausible paths forward for a planned economic contraction, ... Read more

    Was $37.99 USD Now $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Pollution

    Economy and Environment

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
    This study, originally published in 1972, examines the connections between human society and the rest of the universe that are attributable to economic activity. These include the inputs from the environment to industry, such as oxygen, used in the combustion of mineral fuels. Also included are the industrial outputs which are fed back into the environment in the form of waste products. An attempt ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Economics of Sports

    by Michael A. Leeds, Peter von Allmen, Victor A. Matheson ...
    The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds their interest. Thoroughly updated to reflect the current landscape, The Economics of Sports introduces core economic concepts and theories and applies them to US and international sports.Divided into five parts, the book ... Read more

    $244.99 USD

  • Asia Inside Out

    Changing Times

    by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Heidi Walcher, Victor Lieberman, Nancy Um, Charles J. Wheeler, Kerry Ward0, Robert I. Hellyer1, Anand A. Yang2, Andrew Willford3, Naomi Hosoda4 ...
    Series Book 1 - Asia Inside Out
    The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries.Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Instant Insights: Organic soil amendments

    by Various authors, Prof. Lidia Sas Paszt, Dr Slawomir Gluszek, Dr Cristina Lazcano, Dr Charlotte Decock, Dr Connie T. F. Wong, Dr Kamille Garcia-Brucher, Dr David Fangueiro, Dr Jihane Elmahdi, Dr Jared Nyang'au, Dr Stamatis Chrysanthopoulos, Dr Jerke de Vries, Dr Peter Sørensen, Dr Victor Riau, Dr L. Morey, Dr R. Cáceres, Dr M. Cerrillo, Dr A. Bonmati, Dr A. Robles ...
    Series Book 113 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on organic soil amendments.The first chapter examines the role of biofertilisers and consortia of microorganisms in improving the effectiveness of organic fertilisation, before moving on to consider the use of animal excrement, including manures, slurry and guano. The chapter also considers the use of products or by-products of both animal and plant ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Combating Desertification and Land Degradation

    Spatial Strategies Using Vegetation

    by Victor Castillo, Dino Torri, Peter Sandercock, Lorenzo Borselli, Erik L.H. Cammeraat, Andre Meerkerk, Bas van Wesemael, Jan Peter Lesschen, Gonzalo Gonzalez Barbera, Jean Poesen, Sara De Baets, Jose Ignacio Querejeta, Jose A. Navarro-Cano, Carolina Boix-Fayos, Miguel Marchamalo, Janet Hooke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux. Practical guidelines on a spatially strategic approach to management of land degradation at a range of spatial scales were produced. Originally developed for the Mediterranean ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • From Mediation to Nation-Building

    Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict

    by Mohammad Ashraf, Elham Atashi, Linda Bishai, Steven L. Burg, Stephen D. Collins, Neil A. Cruickshank, Caroline A. Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie, Daniela Irrera, Dijon Jones, David D. Laitin, Paul T. McCartney, Cdr. Brigid Myers Pavilonis, Victor Peskin, Mateja Peter, Molly S. Wallace, Sam Whitt, Donald R. Zoufal, I.M. Lobo de Souza, David Forsythe, Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, James DeShaw Rae ...
    The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively, that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and national ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Developing circular agricultural production systems

    by Dr Kleves V. Almeida, Dr Luiz H. P. Silva, Dr David Fangueiro, Dr Jihane Elmahdi, Dr Jared Nyang'au, Dr Stamatis Chrysanthopoulos, Dr Jerke de Vries, Dr Peter Sørensen, Dr Victor Riau, Dr L. Morey, Prof Rolf Meyer, Dr R. Cáceres, Dr M. Cerrillo, Dr A. Bonmati, Dr A. Robles, Dr April Leytem, Dr Robert Dungan, Dr Mindy Spiehs, Dr Dan Miller, Dr Rita Fragoso, Dr D. Hidalgo, Dr Theun Vellinga, Dr M. Paterson, Dr Butch Bataller, Dr Sergio Capareda, Dr Angela Marchetti, Dr Gaia Salvatori, Dr Lionel Tayou Nguemna, Dr Mattia Grumi, Dr Ahmet Ozan Basar, Dr María Pardo-Figuerez, Dr Jose Maria Lagaron, Prof Friedhelm Taube, Dr Cristina Prieto, Dr Chiara Marcoaldi, Dr Marianna Villano, Dr Mauro Majone, Dr David Bolzonella, Dr J. Echave, Dr M. Fraga-Corral, Dr S. Seyyedi-Mansour, Dr L. Cassani, Dr P. Garcia-Oliveira, Dr John Kormla Nyameasem, Dr Hui Cao, Dr J. Simal-Gandara, Dr Miguel Prieto, Dr Jianbo Xiao, Dr Jack B. Hetherington, Dr Pablo Juliano, Dr Rodolfo Garcia-Flores, Dr Lorenzo Rossi, Dr Martina Puccinelli, Dr Ilaria Marchioni, Dr Friederike Fenger, Dr Luca Incrocci, Dr Baldassare Fronte, Dr Carlo Bibbiani, Prof Alberto Pardossi, Dr C. Maraveas, Dr Thomas Bartzanas, Dr Andre F. Brito ...
    With the agricultural sector pledging to improve its sustainability, there is an urgent need to move away from linear food production models which rely on significant raw material inputs and generate large amounts of residual waste.Developing circular agricultural production systems reviews the emergence of circular agriculture as an approach to improving the sustainability of the agricultural ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Energy and the Quality of Life

    Understanding Energy Policy

    by Peter Victor, Robert Macdonald, Clifford Hooker, Robert van Hulst ...
    Series series Heritage
    As the supply/cost crunch tightens, issues related to energy become increasingly compelling. This is a guide for the general public to the fossil fuel crisis facing Canada, and Ontario in particular. It is also about other long-term matters of greater importance: the economic, socio-political, and cultural consequences of the choices which now have to be made, primarily by governments.The authors ... Read more

    $31.69 USD