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  • Escaping Poverty Traps and Unlocking Prosperity in the Face of Climate Risk

    Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance

    by Nathaniel D. Jensen, Francesco P. Fava, Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, Brenda Wandera-Gache, Anton Vrieling, Masresha Taye, Kazushi Takahashi, Felix Lung, Munenobu Ikegami, Polly Ericksen, Philemon Chelanga, Sommarat Chantarat, Michael Carter, Hassan Bashir, Rupsha Banerjee ...
    Series series Elements in Development Economics
    This Element outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management products and policies across Africa. General insights are provided on i) the economics of poverty, risk management, and drylands development; ii) the ... Read more

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    The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

    by R. Jisung Park ...
    How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test scores to higher crime rates—and how we might tackle them todayIt’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Assessments and Implications for Food Security and Trade

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and ... Read more

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  • Prioritizing Development

    A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid up until 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn Lomborg, determine what pursuing different targets will cost and achieve in social, environmental and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Global Problems, Smart Solutions

    Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Climate Change

    The Earth is Dying and You Can Help To Save It

    by Laura M. Dalton ...
    Is the Earth dying?Climate Change has been one of the major issues experiencing our planet today.If you are curious what is REALLY happening, and how you can contribute to stopping this dilemma, then keep reading...Animals are being extinct, water is becoming insufficient, and we can no longer predict the weather.Can we make an improvement in the ever-changing climate we have now?So many debates ... Read more

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  • Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

    by Thomas Sterner, Jessica Coria ...
    Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Restoration in Action against Desertification: A Manual for Large-Scale Restoration to Support Rural Communities’ Resilience in the Great Green Wall Programme

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    It serves a dual purpose of consolidating biophysical operations and socio-economic assessments, and is mainly built on five-year interventions and practical experiences gathered through Action Against Desertification.The first part of the publication is a practical manual expressly created for stakeholders, partners, non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations. Its purpose is ... Read more

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  • Indicators of the Genetic Diversity of Trees – State, Pressure, Benefit and Response: The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources – Thematic Study

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This study, prepared within the ambit of The State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources, reviews issues related to the development of indicators for tree genetic diversity. It includes a historical account of the development of science-based indicators for tree genetic diversity that embrace ecological surrogates for genetic diversity, the genealogical approach, genetic monitoring of management ... Read more

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  • Climate Smart Agriculture

    Building Resilience to Climate Change

    Edited by Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca ...
    Series Book 52 - Natural Resource Management and Policy
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of ... Read more

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  • Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

    by Heather E. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Corley ...
    This timely book provides a wealth of information to help city managers, policy analysts, and government administrators identify relevant urban environmental problems and an array of potential solutions, analyze policy solutions and outcomes, and communicate with the public regarding urban environmental problems and policies. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Sustainable Land Management: Challenges, Opportunities, And Trade-Offs

    by World Bank ...
    Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land ... Read more

    $11.59 USD