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Global Environmental Governance
Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Today's mpressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?
Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten...
State of the World 2006
Special Focus: China and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems. The report explains the critical need for both countries to "leapfrog" the technologies, policies, and even the cultures that...
Foreclosing the Future
The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
World Bank PresidJim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does just the opposite. By funding developmprojects...
Which World?
Scenarios For The 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In Which World?, scientist Allen Hammond imaginatively probes the consequences of pressocial, economic, and environmental trends to construct three possible worlds that could await us in the twenty-first century: Market World, in which economic and human progress is driven by the liberating power...
by Frank Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficiinteraction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being...
A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration
New Hope for Arid Lands
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Dryland degradation and desertification now affect alma billion people around the world. Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions of acres of land are lto desertification each year because people remain unaware of strategies and techniques that could improve yields, reduce...
by Neva R. Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluconsumers.The Consumer Society provides brief summaries...
The Nature of a House
Building a World that Works
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Is it possible for a group of the world’s mrespected environmental scientists to truly practice what they preach? Can their expertise in climate change help them in transforming an old house and its nine acres into their new office building and campus—a building that is as energy efficias possible,...
by Mr. Nathaniel O. Keohane, Dr. Sheila M. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that Markets and the Environment has become a classic text in environmental studies since its first publication in 2007. Now thoroughly revised with updated...
by Nathaniel O. Keohane, Sheila M. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Markets and the Environment is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to a topic of central importance in understanding a wide range of environmental issues and policy approaches. It offers a clear overview of the fundamentals of environmental economics that will enable students and professionals...
by William K. Jaeger
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Though many students and environmentalists shudder at even the thought of economics, a working knowledge of the basics can be a powerful ally. Economic arguments carry a great deal of weight, and putting them to work for environmental causes can be a deciding factor, especially in policy debates....
Investing in Natural Capital
The Ecological Economics Approach To Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Investing in Natural Capital presents the results of a workshop held following the second biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics. It focuses on the relation of human developmto natural capital, and the relation of natural capital to environmental processes.Because...
Energy Revolution
Policies for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The transformation from a carbon-based world economy to one based on high efficiency and renewables is a necessary step if human society is to achieve sustainability. But while scientists and researchers have made significant advances in energy efficiency and renewable technologies in recyears, consumers...
Energy Democracy
Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is havingcataclysmic impacts on our atmosphere and climate. These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnifiedand debilitating for low-income communities and communities of color.
Energy...