World without end: Economics, environment, and sustainable development

Is it possible to maintain sustainable development? What sacrifices do developing countries make in their environment to progress in their economic advancement? This work is comprehensive in its survey of environmental economics. Bridging the gap between theory and application, the authors explore many issues including evaluating environmental damage and benefits, population growth and resources scarcity, income distribution and poverty, acid rain and the greenhouse effect, and world markets and natural resource degradation.

World without End: Economics, Environment, and Sustainable Development

Business & Money

Pearce, David W.

Warford, Jeremy J.

Economics

Oxford University Press

Economic Values and the Natural World

In this book, David Pearce addresses one of the single most important issues for economists dealing with environmental problems: how to place economic value on aspects of the natural world.  Pearce provides a clear account of the context of and reasons for economic valuation and surveys the economic approaches to placing monetary values on people's preferences for environmental quality. He shows how the different methods have been applied in practice - with numerous detailed case studies and analyses -and explains how the results provide an economic rationale for conserving the environment, whether it is the world's biological diversity or the global atmosphere.  David W. Pearce is Professor of Economics at University College London and Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. He is editor of The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics, coauthor of Blueprint for a Green Economy, and editor of Blueprint 2: Greening the World Economy.

Mit Pr

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Management & Leadership

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Describes what accommodations different species of birds require, recommends several layouts, and provides detailed advice on building an aviary

Aviary Design and Construction

Science & Math

Technology

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Describes what accommodations different species of birds require, recommends several layouts, and provides detailed advice on building an aviary

Build Your Own Aviary: A Birdkeeper's Guide to Design and Construction

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Blandford Pr

Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment

Economics of natural resources and the environment

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

The rapid destruction of tropical forests is one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time, but the international community and national governments are unable to formulate effective policy responses without a clear understanding of the causes of deforestation. This comprehensive and coherent account presents the 'state of the art' econometric analysis of tropical deforestation, quantifying and examining the local and underlying global causes.

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation: The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of Tropical Forests

Brown, Katrina

UBC Press

World Bank

Valuing the Environment

Barde, Jean-Philippe

Taylor&Francis

Elephants, Economics and Ivory (Environmental and Resource Economics Set)

Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for rejoicing, but nothing is quite so simple. The authors of this book have looked at the overall statistics, including those for countries where the elephant population is stable. They have considered the multiplicity of economic and social functions fulfilled by ensuring that elephant herds survive, tourism, a variety of ecological purpose. and, finally, as a source of ivory. They show how the careful management of elephants as a resource can best serve African interests. This book is at the cutting edge of economic thinking and provides a model for the consideration of the difficult relationship between people and wildlife. Originally published in 19990

Barbier, Edward B.

Burgess, Joanne C.

Swanson, Timothy M.

Routledge

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