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  • Paying for Pollution

    Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America

    de Gilbert E. Metcalf ...
    The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels causes long-lasting, pervasive damages, costly to those of us alive today and even more to our children and our children's children. The United States is the second largest carbon emitting country in the world and ... Leer más

    $35.09 USD

  • US Energy Tax Policy

    Edición de Gilbert E. Metcalf ...
    The United States face enormous challenges in the energy area. Climate change, biofuels policy, energy security and environmental degradation are all intimately bound up with energy production and consumption. Historically, the federal government has relied on tax subsidies to effect energy policy. With mounting federal deficits, policymakers and advocates are increasingly calling for a rethinking ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

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  • Why We Disagree About Climate Change

    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

    de Mike Hulme ...
    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Global Warming

    The Complete Briefing

    de John Houghton ...
    How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest information available, including the latest IPCC findings. The simple, logical flow of ideas gives an invaluable grounding in the science, as well as ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Creating A Sustainable And Desirable Future: Insights From 45 Global Thought Leaders

    de Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski ...
    The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or can be, with global perspectives written by some of the world's leading thinkers, including: Wendell ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Bioeconomics of Invasive Species

    Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy, and Management

    Edición de Reuben P. Keller, David M. Lodge, Mark A. Lewis, Jason F. Shogren ...
    Biological invasions are one of the strongest drivers of global environmental change, and invasive species are now often in the public discourse. At the same time, economists have begun to take a real interest in determining how invasive species interact with economic systems, and how invaders should be controlled to optimize societal wealth. Although the work from ecologists and economists have ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Sustainability Economics

    An Introduction

    de Peter Bartelmus ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environmental and ecological economics and optimal growth theory, sustainability remains a hazy and complex subject.The author set out with two objectives: one, to bring some order into the proliferating measures, models and management of sustainability; and ... Leer más

    $106.99 USD

  • The Economic Value of Landscapes

    Edición de C. Martijn van der Heide, Wim Heijman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change

    Social Scientific Investigations

    Edición de Robin Globus Veldman, Andrew Szasz, Randolph Haluza-DeLay ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    A growing chorus of voices has suggested that the world’s religions may become critical actors as the climate crisis unfolds, particularly in light of international paralysis on the issue. In recent years, many faiths have begun to address climate change and its consequences for human societies, especially the world’s poor. This is the first volume to use social science to examine how religions ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective

    de Adam Rose ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the concept to private and public decision making. Major dimensions of resilience and their implications ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Future of Eco-labelling

    Making Environmental Product Information Systems Effective

    de Frieder Rubik, Paolo Frankl ...
    Eco-labelling is one of the key tools used by policy-makers in many parts of the world to encourage more sustainable production and consumption. By providing environmental information on products and services, eco-labels address both business users and consumers and range from mandatory approaches, such as required product declarations, to voluntary approaches, such as national eco-labels.Eco ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Experiment Earth

    Responsible innovation in geoengineering

    de Jack Stilgoe ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Experiments in geoengineering – intentionally manipulating the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming – have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the world’s first major geoengineering projects, this book examines the politics of experimentation. Geoengineering provides a ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD