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  • Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes

    Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

    Edited by Leslie Lipper, Takumi Sakuyama, Randy Stringer, David Zilberman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental and poverty alleviation objectives. However, their optimal design, implications for the rural poor, ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

    by ForestWorks ...
    The Tree Faller’s Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. This manual builds on the information provided by the Chainsaw Operator’s Manual.Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being struck by falling trees, dislodged tree limbs or other dangers in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 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, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Economics of Sustainable Development

    The Case of India

    by Surender Kumar, Shunsuke Managi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book highlights methodological approaches for the economics of sustainable development and brings together recent empirical work done in India, especially by Dr. Surender Kumar and Dr. Shunsuke Managi. Various chapters in this book use Indian data to show the very wide applicability of methodologies in the theory of production for dealing with many empirical issues of environmentally ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Water Crisis in Yemen

    Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East

    by Christopher Ward ...
    Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components. He assesses the social and economic impacts of the crisis and provides in-depth case studies in the key management areas. The final part of the book offers an assessment of current strategy and looks at future ways in which the people ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries

    Edited by David Zilberman, Joachim Otte, David Roland-Holst, Dirk Pfeiffer ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal production that will protect human and environmental health, enhance livelihood of smallholders and meet consumer needs. The book combines lessons of the past, factual foundation to understand the present, analytical tools to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy

    Edited by Madhu Khanna, Jürgen Scheffran, David Zilberman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Concerns about energy security, uncertainty about oil prices, declining oil reserves, and global climate change are fueling a shift towards bioenergy as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Public policies and private investments around the globe are aiming to increase local capacity to produce biofuels. A key constraint to the expansion of biofuel production is the limited amount of land ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Micro Irrigation Systems in India

    Emergence, Status and Impacts

    Edited by M. Dinesh Kumar, A. Narayanamoorthy, P K Viswanathan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India’s agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades. Based on empirical research from the major agriculturally dynamic states, viz., Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the book provides a nuanced understanding and objective assessment of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Governance of Water-Related Conflicts in Agriculture

    New Directions in Agri-Environmental and Water Policies in the EU

    Edited by T. Zabel, F.M. Brouwer, I. Heinz ...
    Series Book 37 - Environment & Policy
    This book deals with voluntary approaches between farmers and water suppliers as an instrument to meet environmental standards, impacted by agricultural activities, more economically efficient and environmentally effective than by exclusive application of alternative instruments including command-and-control approaches. The book is based largely on the results of the research project 'Co-operative ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain

    Policy Implications

    by Alberto Garrido, M. Ramón Llamas, Consuelo Varela-Ortega, Paula Novo, Roberto Rodríguez-Casado, Maite M. Aldaya ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    1.1 General Framework In most arid and semi-arid countries, water resource management is an issue that is both important and controversial. Most water resources experts now acknowledge that water conflicts are not caused by physical scarcity but are mainly due to poor water management (Rosegrant et al. 2002; Benoit and Comeau 2005; Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture 2007; ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Economics of Water Demands

    by Steven Renzetti ...
    Series Book 22 - Natural Resource Management and Policy
    This book arose out of a paper that I wrote for the World Bank at the request of Ariel Dinar, the editor for the series in which this volume appears. I began that paper by pointing to the growing importance of demand-side considerations in water resources: "The provision of potable water is one of government's oldest functions with evidence of this activity stretching back thousands of years. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cost-Benefit Studies of Natural Resource Management in Southeast Asia

    Edited by David James, Herminia A. Francisco ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). It emphasizes the close relationship between the environment and natural resources and economic ... Read more

    $89.09 USD