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  • The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy

    de Peter Berck ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive, market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and subsidies for pollution ... Leer más

    $225.99 USD

  • A New Century for Natural Resources Management

    de Vawter Parker, Peter Berck, Robert Costanza, Steward Pickett, James Kennedy, Jack Ward Thomas, Richard Ostfeld, Susan Kay Jacobson, Jeff DeBonis, Mark Brunson, Gloria Helfand, Winifred Kessler, Rupert Cutler, Robert H. Nelson, Curt Meine, Thomas Michael Power ...
    This book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the current situation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transforming all aspects of natural resources management.The book is an important overview for wildlife ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa

    Food Security in a Changing Environment

    Edición de Cyndi Spindell Berck, Peter Berck, Salvatore Di Falco ...
    Series series Environment for Development
    A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop yields in Africa. The purpose of this book is to document the effects of climate change on agriculture in Africa and to discuss strategies for adaptation to hotter weather and less predictable rainfall. These strategies include promoting opportunities for farmers to adopt technologies that produce optimal results in terms of crop yield ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century

    Essays in Memory of Peter Berck

    Edición de David Zilberman, Jeffrey M. Perloff, Cyndi Spindell Berck ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is an open access book.This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. Written in memory of Peter Berck, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, the chapters expand upon his insights about the connections between human activities and the natural ... Leer más

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    de Anwar Shaikh ...
    Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by ... Leer más

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  • Free Market Economics, Third Edition

    An Introduction for the General Reader

    de Steven Kates ...
    Acclaim for the first edition:'Free Market Economics is virtually a must read for serious economists . . . Highly recommended.'- Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries'A refreshing theoretical counterattack to the established Keynesian world view that has left the West financially overpromised, disastrously broke, and vulnerable to crank ideas. Professor Kates has brilliantly resurrected ... Leer más

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  • Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Assessments and Implications for Food Security and Trade

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and ... Leer más

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  • Lectures on Urban Economics

    de Jan K. Brueckner ...
    A rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics.Lectures on Urban Economics offers a rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the book accessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather than mathematical. Although nontechnical, the book relies on rigorous economic reasoning. In contrast to the cursory ... Leer más

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  • Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

    Edición de Ephraim Nkonya, Alisher Mirzabaev, Joachim von Braun ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. ... Leer más

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  • Resource Economics

    An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition

    de John C. Bergstrom, Alan Randall ...
    'I joined this amazing journey about 30 years ago. I benefited from all the theories, principles, and approaches offered in this book to explore the natural resource and environmental issues on the other side of the world. It makes me an enthusiastic and pragmatic teacher and researcher. In addition to rearranging and rewriting certain chapters, the fourth edition comprises new chapters on climate ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

    de Thomas Sterner, Jessica Coria ...
    Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a ... Leer más

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  • Can It Happen Again?

    Essays on Instability and Finance

    de Hyman Minsky ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In the winter of 1933, the American financial and economic system collapsed. Since then economists, policy makers and financial analysts throughout the world have been haunted by the question of whether "It" can happen again. In 2008 "It" very nearly happened again as banks and mortgage lenders in the USA and beyond collapsed. The disaster sent economists, bankers and policy makers back to the ... Leer más

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