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  • Economics of Forestry and Rural Development

    An Empirical Introduction from Asia

    Edición de William F. Hyde, Gregory Scott Amacher ...
    Economic development and forest use, with special emphasis on understanding the components of forest degradation and exploitation in developing countries, are the focus of this book. Contributors, mostly from South or Southeast Asia, examine deforestation and tenurial rights, linkages between migration, poverty, and resource exploitation, technology diffusion among poor-subsistence households, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Global Economics of Forestry

    de William F. Hyde ...
    This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of forest development, and then discusses the management and policy implications associated with each, supporting its observations with examples and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Timber Supply, Land Allocation, and Economic Efficiency

    de William F. Hyde ...
    Series series RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set
    First Published in 2011. This is the sixth volume in the Forests, Lands, and Recreation set of ten volumes. This text is one of many on the topic of timber supply, a perpetually central issue in forest economics and policy. But it is also something else: It is an attempt to examine the economic efficiency of investments in timber production. Special attention is directed to the increasingly ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • China's Forests

    Global Lessons from Market Reforms

    Edición de William F. Hyde, Brian Belcher, Jintao Xu ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Forestry and Forest Policy are key issues for the protection of China’s natural environment and for its continued economic development. Originally published in 2003, the contributors to this title review the successes of China’s forest policies and the growth of its forests over the past quarter-century and examine the challenges facing China’s forests and rural environment. China’s Forests: ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Urban Household Energy Transition

    Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World

    de Douglas F. Barnes, Kerry Krutilla, William F. Hyde ...
    As cities in developing countries grow and become more prosperous, energy use shifts from fuelwood to fuels like charcoal, kerosene, and coal, and, ultimately, to fuels such as liquid petroleum gas, and electricity. Energy use is not usually considered as a social issue. Yet, as this book demonstrates, the movement away from traditional fuels has a strong socio-economic dimension, as poor people ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Expulsions

    Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

    de Saskia Sassen ...
    Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional livelihood, from ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD

  • The Chinese Economy, second edition

    Adaptation and Growth

    de Barry J. Naughton ...
    The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both a broadly focused ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Global Farms Race

    Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, and the Scramble for Food Security

    Edición de Michael Kugelman, Susan L. Levenstein ...
    As we struggle to feed a global population speeding toward 9 billion, we have entered a new phase of the food crisis. Wealthy countries that import much of their food, along with private investors, are racing to buy or lease huge swaths of farmland abroad. The Global Farms Race is the first book to examine this burgeoning trend in all its complexity, considering the implications for investors, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to International Environmental Law

    de Ellen Hey ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    All too often, international environmental law is presented as a kind of guided tour of different treaties and environmental problems. Professor Hey succeeds beautifully in articulating the themes that connect all of these disparate areas, an effort that both students and scholars will appreciate.'- Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley, US'This volume presents a superb overview of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, And Policies

    de Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony ...
    The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • China's Past, China's Future

    de Vaclav Smil ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

    An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

    de Vaclav Smil ...
    In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth", a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much broader canvas, updates and expands on the basic arguments and perceptions of "The Bad Earth". This book is not a systematic litany of what went wrong and how much - but rather an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD