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  • Nature's Wealth

    The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Poverty

    Edited by Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, Jetske Bouma, Roy Brouwer ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of the essential services that they provide. Understanding the linkages between ecosystem service provisioning and human well-being is crucial for the establishment of effective environmental and economic development policy. Presenting new insights into ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values

    A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners

    Edited by Randall S. Rosenberger, Robert J. Johnston, Roy Brouwer, John Rolfe ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners. Early chapters provide accessible introductory materials suitable for non-economists. These chapters also detail how benefit transfer is used within the policy process. Later chapters cover more advanced topics suited to valuation ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East

    Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace

    by Christopher Ward, Sandra Ruckstuhl ...
    The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet through this diversity runs a common thread: water scarcity. Now, through the impact of human ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • 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

  • Cradle to Cradle

    Remaking the Way We Make Things

    by William McDonough, Michael Braungart ...
    A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Drawdown

    The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

    Edited by Paul Hawken ...
    **• New York Times bestseller •The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world“At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    by Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability

    Edited by Claudio O. Stockle, Mukhtar Ahmed ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems. It includes mitigation techniques such as use of bioenergy crops, fertilizer and manure management, conservation tillage, crop rotations, cover crops and cropping intensity, irrigation, erosion control, management of drained ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Birds and Habitat

    Relationships in Changing Landscapes

    Edited by Robert J. Fuller ...
    Series series Ecological Reviews
    The successful conservation of bird species relies upon our understanding of their habitat use and requirements. In the coming decades the importance of such knowledge will only grow as climate change, the development of new energy sources and the needs of a growing human population intensify the, already significant, pressure on the habitats that birds depend on. Drawing on valuable recent ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Mathematics for Econometrics

    by Phoebus J. Dhrymes ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book deals with a number of mathematical topics that are of great importance in the study of classical econometrics. There is a lengthy chapter on matrix algebra, which takes the reader from the most elementary aspects to the partitioned inverses, characteristic roots and vectors, symmetric, and orthogonal and positive (semi) definite matrices. The book also covers pseudo-inverses, solutions ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Financial Modeling, Actuarial Valuation and Solvency in Insurance

    by Mario V. Wüthrich, Michael Merz ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Risk management for financial institutions is one of the key topics the financial industry has to deal with. The present volume is a mathematically rigorous text on solvency modeling. Currently, there are many new developments in this area in the financial and insurance industry (Basel III and Solvency II), but none of these developments provides a fully consistent and comprehensive framework for ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Land of Plenty

    A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain

    by Charlie Pye-Smith ...
    Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those who ... Read more

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