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  • Aviation in Roanoke

    by Nelson Harris, Marshall Harris ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    In 1910, an awestruck crowd at the Roanoke Fair got its first glimpse of powered flight when a Curtiss biplane soared overhead. Within the next decade, gliders were lifting off from hills in South Roanoke and cow pastures were being converted into airstrips. Once Roanoke Municipal Airport was developed in 1929, earlier local airfields such as Cook, Trout, and Horton Fields were rendered inactive. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land Economics Research

    Edited by Joseph Ackerman, Marion Clawson, Marshall Harris ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1962, Land Economics Research brings together papers presented at a symposium in Nebraska in 1961 which deal with ideas, theories and suggestions in land economics to encourage problem-solving in American land issues. This report draws on all types of land, all situations and all economics problems related to land issues. This title will be of interest to students of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Ecological Economics from the Ground Up

    Edited by Hali Healy, Joan Martínez-Alier, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Julien-François Gerber ...
    Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields, which are seen as increasingly important in the context of the current triple social, economic and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Global Warming Gridlock

    Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

    by David G. Victor ...
    Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David G. Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Sustainability Economics

    An Introduction

    by 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 ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Is the Planet Full?

    Edited by Ian Goldin ...
    What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Risk Pivot

    Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution

    by Bruce D. Jones, David Steven ...
    The last decade has seen a revolution in global energy. First, we saw explosive growth in demand from Asia's rising powers, which fueled fears about scarcity and conflict. But we've also seen an American revolution in technology and markets, resulting in a dramatic increase in sup-ply. This is strengthening America's hand in the world-but it's not without complications. There are major security ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    by Del Weston ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program

    by James P. Howard, II ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic effects. Created by Congress in 1968, the NFIP provides flood insurance protection to property owners, in return for local government commitment to sound floodplain management. Since 1994, the NFIP has included a Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards

    Edited by Sven Fuchs, Thomas Thaler ...
    In recent years there has been growing recognition that disaster risk cannot be reduced by focusing solely on physical hazards without considering factors that influence socio-economic impact. Vulnerability: the susceptibility to the damaging impacts of hazards, and resilience: the ability to recover, have become popular concepts in natural hazard and risk management. This book provides a ... Read more

    $80.39 USD

  • Environment, Incentives and the Common Market

    Edited by Jan L. de Vries, Herman R.J. Vollebergh, F.J. Dietz ...
    Series Book 4 - Environment & Policy
    Although economists have long advocated the use of economic instruments in the implementation of environmental policy, they have only recently gained acceptance. There is a growing consensus within the European Union that both Member States and the environment would benefit from the use of such incentive-based economic instruments.Environment, Incentives and the Common Market has been written by ... Read more

    $143.09 USD