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Environment & Management Serie de eBooks

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  • The Application of Economic Techniques in Environmental Impact Assessment

    Edición de David E. James ...
    Series Libro 4 - Environment & Management
    The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental management needs practical illustration. Too few books on the subject achieve such an outcome. This book is among the notable exceptions. That economics can provide a powerful vehicle for communicating an integrated understanding of the often diverse scientific findings germane to environmental im pact assessment needs to be ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    de Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Ecosystem Services – Concept, Methods and Case Studies

    Edición de Karsten Grunewald, Olaf Bastian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from natural hazards. Major international studies, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, have addressed the enormous role of ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edición de Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Libro 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Successful Agricultural Innovation in Emerging Economies

    New Genetic Technologies for Global Food Production

    Edición de David J. Bennett, Richard C. Jennings ...
    World population is forecast to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050, 1 in 6 is already hungry and food production must increase by 70-100% if it is to feed this growing population. No single solution will solve this problem but recent developments in the genetic technologies of plant breeding can help to increase agricultural efficiencies and save people from hunger in a sustainable manner, ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Green Governance

    Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons

    de Burns H. Weston, David Bollier ...
    The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat 'the environment' as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Post-2020 Climate Action

    Global and Asian Perspectives

    Edición de Shinichiro Fujimori, Mikiko Kainuma, Toshihiko Masui ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book summarizes assessments of the Paris Agreement to provide an excellent introduction to this research field. The AIM/CGE (Asia-Pacific Integrated Modeling /Computable General Equilibrium) model, which is the core of AIM modeling framework, is used for the assessment.The first part focuses on global issues, presenting both short-term (a few decades) and long-term (century scale) assessments ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • Joint Implementation to Curb Climate Change

    Legal and Economic Aspects

    Edición de Onno J. Kuik, Paul Peters, Nico Schrijver ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about joint implementation. It addresses legal, economic and institutional questions which should be taken into account in setting up joint implementation projects and in developing criteria for joint implementation under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). First, however, before going into any detail, we shall briefly sketch the background, quoting Daniel Bodansky: ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy

    Insights from International Experience

    Edición de Alexandros Maziotis, Manuel Lago, Gonzalo Delacámara, Carlos M. Gómez, Jaroslav Mysiak ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex policy mixes. The development of a consolidated assessment framework helps clarify (and where ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making

    Edición de Virginia H. Dale, Mary R. English ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Environmental decision making is, like politics, mostly local. In fact, making decisions about the environment at the subnationallevel-in state, regional, and local jurisdictions-is a lot like politics. For resolving environ mental issues demands, but often resists, a balance between deeply held feelings and stark confrontations among opposing views. This volume describes tools that should make ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Environmental Policy in Search of New Instruments

    Edición de B. Dente ...
    Series Libro 3 - Environment, Science and Society
    Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

    Current Challenges and Prospects for Future Development

    de Barbara Janusz-Pawletta ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyzes the legal and economic situation concerning the removal and allocation of the natural resources in the Caspian Sea – the largest enclosed body of salt water in the world, which not only constitutes a fragile ecosystem with great fishery resources, but is also rich in oil and gas deposits. The economic advantages gained from the development of oil and gas are the basis for the ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD