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Environment for Development eBook Series

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  • Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

    The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

    by Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner ...
    Series series Environment for Development
    This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The New Entrepreneurs

    Building a Green Economy for the Future

    by Andrew Heintzman ...
    In The New Entrepreneurs, author and venture capitalist Andrew Heintzman introduces us to the innovative business leaders who are at the forefront of the green economy. From forestry, water, and energy to transportation and agriculture, Heintzman profiles the enterprises that are developing cutting-edge, clean-tech products and innovations for export to a vast and rapidly expanding global market. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Sustainability

    Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives

    by Martin Mulligan ...
    An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the subject for the first ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The New Economics

    A Bigger Picture

    by Andrew Simms, David Boyle ...
    Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money as a measure of success, this new economics turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty upside down. It shows us that ... Read more

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  • Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building

    Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development

    Edited by Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldach, K V Raju, Kottapalli Sreenivasa Rao, Harald Kaechele, Bill Pritchard ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on “Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development” held during 20–21 May 2015 and jointly organized by the Centre for Ecological ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Brazil in the Anthropocene

    Conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies

    Edited by Liz-Rejane Issberner, Philippe Léna ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Brazil is considered one of the world’s most important environmental powers. With a continental territory containing almost 70 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, along with a rich biodiversity and huge amount of natural resources, its geopolitical role in environmental decisions is crucial to ongoing global negotiations surrounding climate change.Development policies based on extraction and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Globalization and Sustainable Economic Development

    Issues, Insights, and Inference

    by Piya Mahtaney ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In a world in transition and an era of transformation, Mahtaney calls for reflection and an analysis of a wide canvas of global economic experience. Her new work initiates a thorough review of the strategies and policies that have been pursued over the past two decades. The economic meltdown compelled the beginning of the next phase of globalization and she contends that the future will see an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Course in Environmental Economics

    Theory, Policy, and Practice

    by Daniel J. Phaneuf, Till Requate ...
    This unique graduate textbook offers a compelling narrative of the growing field of environmental economics that integrates theory, policy, and empirical topics. Daniel J. Phaneuf and Till Requate present both traditional and emerging perspectives, incorporating cutting-edge research in a way that allows students to easily identify connections and common themes. Their comprehensive approach gives ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

    The IZA World of Labor Guide 2017

    Edited by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Olga K. Nottmeyer ...
    Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations of comprehensive evidence-based research with concise ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!

    Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order

    by Peter Pogany ...
    Just to maintain our standard of living, we need to grow the worldwide economy at an unsustainable rate.As we seek to hit such lofty targets, were bound to deplete our resources and cause environmental crises on a scale that we have never seen before. Revolutions, terrorism, and wars will follow.Peter Pogany examines the problems we face and argues that human culture is governed by thermodynamic ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Innovations in Sustainability

    Fuel and Food

    by Alfred A. Marcus ...
    Series series Organizations and the Natural Environment
    To what extent can competition between companies encourage innovations in sustainability that have the potential to solve some of the world's major challenges? Using a series of case studies, this book pits closely related competitors against each other to examine the progress in and obstacles to the evolution of sustainable innovations in energy efficiency, solar power, electric vehicles and ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Gender and Climate Change Financing

    Coming out of the margin

    by Mariama Williams ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender ... Read more

    $115.99 USD