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  • Natural Resources and Economic Development

    de Edward B. Barbier ...
    Why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I gives a historical review of resource use and development, examining current theories that explain the under-performance of today's resource-abundant economies, and proposing a hypothesis of frontier expansion ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Economics for a Sustainable World

    An Introduction to Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

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

    $53.99 USD

  • The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade

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

    $51.99 USD

  • Economics of the SDGs

    Putting the Sustainable Development Goals into Practice

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

    $98.99 USD

  • After the Green Revolution

    Sustainable Agriculture for Development

    de Gordon R. Conway, Edward B. Barbier ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of diminishing ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • A New Blueprint for a Green Economy

    de Edward B. Barbier, Anil Markandya ...
    Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical policy measures for 'greening' modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable development. This new book, written by two of the Blueprint for a Green Economy authors, revisits and updates its main messages by asking, first, what has been achieved in the past twenty years, and second, what more ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals)

    Conventional and Alternative Views

    de Edward B Barbier ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded. Using insights provided by environmentalism, ecology and thermo-dynamics, this book – first published in 1989 – outlines an economic approach to the use of natural resources and particularly to the problem of environmental degradation. Edward Barbier reviews and critiques ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Elephants, Economics and Ivory

    de Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson, David W. Pearce ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for rejoicing, but nothing is quite so simple.The authors of this book have looked at the overall statistics, ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans

    de Marco (Octavio) Aburto, Lilian (Naia) Alessa, Maria de los Angeles Carvajal, Brad Barr, Edward B. Barbier, Donald F. Boesch, James Boyd, Larry B. Crowder, Richard Cudney-Bueno, Tim Essington, Exequiel Ezcurra, Steve Ganey, Erica Goldman, Fred Guichard, Elliott Hazen, Kimberly Heiman, Leah Bunce Karrer, Les Kaufman, Ilse Kiessling, Ann Kinzig, Andrew (Anaru) Kliskey, Phil Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Don Maruska, Charlotte B. Mogensen, Maggie Mooney-Seus, Kathleen Dean Moore, Robert O'Boyle, Jonathan Peacey, Linwood Pendleton, Charles H. Peterson, Garry Peterson, Andrew A. Rosenberg, Mary Ruckelshaus, Roly Russell, Paul Sandifer, Janis Searles, Janna Shackeroff, Jorge Torre, Lisa Wainger, Dean Wendt, Tana Worcester ...
    Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans is a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising new approach.At ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

  • Capitalizing on Nature

    Ecosystems as Natural Assets

    de Edward B. Barbier ...
    The basic unit of nature – the ecosystem – is a special form of wealth, which we can think of as a stock of natural capital. However, perhaps because this capital is free, we have tended to view it as limitless, abundant and always available for our use, exploitation and conversion. Capitalizing on Nature shows how modeling ecosystems as natural capital can help us to analyze the economic behavior ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Paradise Lost?

    The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity

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

    $51.99 USD

  • A Global Green New Deal

    Rethinking the Economic Recovery

    de Edward B. Barbier ...
    Meeting the short run challenges of reviving the worldwide economy need not mean sacrificing long run economic and environmental sustainability. A Global Green New Deal (GGND) is an economic policy strategy for ensuring a more economically and environmentally sustainable world economic recovery. Reviving growth and creating jobs should be essential objectives. But policies should also aim to ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD