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  • At War with the Weather

    Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Neil A. Doherty, Martin F. Grace, Robert W. Klein ...
    Innovative, long-term strategies for reducing vulnerability to large-scale natural disasters and for providing financial support for disaster victims.The United States and other nations are facing large-scale risks at an accelerating rhythm. In 2005, three major hurricanes—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma—made landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast within a six-week period. The damage caused by these storms ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Applied Choice Analysis

    by David A. Hensher, John M. Rose, William H. Greene ...
    The second edition of this popular book brings students fully up to date with the latest methods and techniques in choice analysis. Comprehensive yet accessible, it offers a unique introduction to anyone interested in understanding how to model and forecast the range of choices made by individuals and groups. In addition to a complete rewrite of several chapters, new topics covered include ordered ... Read more

    $89.39 USD

  • Democratizing Technology

    Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals

    by Anne Chapman ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Democratizing Technology provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the regulation of chemicals, and an important contribution to green thinking about technology.Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP. This book is an excellent critique of the current risk-based approach to technology. By exploring the philosophical underpinnings and the practical applications of current policy on science and technology ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Economic Consequence Analysis of Disasters

    The E-CAT Software Tool

    by Adam Rose, Zhenhua Chen, Fynnwin Prager, Nathaniel Heatwole, Eric Warren, Dan Wei, Samrat Chatterjee ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats. This software tool is intended for use by various decision makers and analysts to obtain estimates rapidly. It is programmed in Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to facilitate its use. This tool is called E-CAT (Economic ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective

    by Adam Rose ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the concept to private and public decision making. Major dimensions of resilience and their implications ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services

    From Regulation to Innovation

    by Philipp Aerni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for ... Read more

    $49.49 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

  • The Global Environment

    Edited by Kei Takeuchi, Masatoshi Yoshino ...
    The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful planet with its inter-dependent waters, lands and atmo sphere, we consider that the problems ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reviving Lakes and Wetlands in the People's Republic of China, Volume 2

    Lessons Learned on Integrated Water Pollution Control from Chao Lake Basin

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Reviving Lakes and Wetlands in the People's Republic of China
    This publication continues the Asian Development Bank's analysis of lake and wetland rehabilitation in the People's Republic of China. It examines how the current situation in the Chao Lake Basin compares with international thinking on the conditions necessary for sustainable management of lake basins. The analysis highlights that the creation of the Chao Lake Management Authority (CLMA) and the ... Read more

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  • Arsenic Mitigation in Rural Bangladesh

    A Policy-Mix for Supplying Safe Water in Badly Affected Areas of Meherpur District

    by Wardatul Akmam ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Based on micro-level empirical research, this book uniquely addresses the problem of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh in a comprehensive way. At the outset, the book puts forward the opinions of experts regarding the cause of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh, followed by sample surveys depicting socioeconomic and arsenic-related situations in three arsenic ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Humanity's Footprint

    Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment

    by Walter Dodds ...
    For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.Walter K. Dodds depicts in clear, nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Water Resources and Food Security in the Vietnam Mekong Delta

    by Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Mekong River has been a main source of conquest, conflict, and cooperation in the Southeast Asian region. Much has been written on the vital and critical importance of the Mekong River fresh water to the sustainable economic development of the Mekong Delta. This book selects the Mekong Delta as a case study of regional cooperation for water and food security for not only for Vietnam but also ... Read more

    $49.49 USD