This revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal publication provides a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics, a subject which has until now been addressed only in limited aspects. Although much of the book's discussion is based upon natural resources and environmental economics, the author presents a wide and integrative view, drawing from aesthetic, psychological, social and political perspectives and applying a critical use of economic concepts and challenges to different schools of thought on the landscape. This new edition includes new ideas and critiques on environmental valuation; more focused critiques of stated preference methods, political alternatives to economic valuation, and of the rationale of discounting future values; and, new evaluative techniques, particularly price premia for products with a landscape provenance. 
For those interested in the theoretical aspects of aesthetic valuation, and for those who seek solutions to practical problems of aesthetic conservation, amelioration and enhancement, this new edition gives an overview of evaluative techniques, of their potential problems and of possible solutions. The updates are a major contribution to the growing literature in the field.

Landscape economics

Arts & Photography

Price, Colin

Architecture

Macmillan

How Will Yahoo! Stay on Top in the Twenty-First Century? Sony? DuPont? Why Not Ask Their CEOs? Wisdom of the CEO introduces you to 29 visionaries who are actively changing today's business paradigm. These top global business leaders explain how they are confronting the eight key issues driving business today-Globalization, Growth, Shareholder Value, Innovation, E-Business, Disruptive Technology, Organization, and Knowledge Management-and give you valuable guidance for maintaining and strengthening your own company's market share. Listen to the voices of experience as they discuss hot-button issues including: * The Internet-How will e-commerce change customer demands and expectations? K. Blake Darcy, CEO of online trading powerhouse DLJdirect, explains the new rules. * Shareholder Value-Can a leader focus all of a company's strategic efforts on shareholder value? Sir Brian Pitman explains how managers throughout the Lloyds organization-acting as value-creation strategists-are helping him to do just that. * Disruptive Technology-Can established companies exploit disruptive technologies as effectively as their start-up competitors? CEO Roger G. Ackerman reveals how Corning can-and does. PricewaterhouseCoopers is renowned for its commitment to helping world-class companies make better business decisions and hone their competitive strategies. With Wisdom of the CEO, Dauphinais, Means, and Price assemble an impressive, unprecedented gathering of today's leading business minds to discuss the trends that are propelling global business into the twenty-first century-and how they are positioning their companies to take full advantage of those trends.

Wisdom of the CEO: 29 Global Leaders Tackle Today's Most Pressing Business Challenges (Wiley Audio)

Business & Money

Means, Grady

Dauphinais, G. William

Management & Leadership

wiley

Written for the new curriculum, Science for the New Zealand Curriculum offers the ultimate resource package for Year 9 and 10.

Science for the New Zealand Curriculum Years 9&10

Bradley, Catherine

Reid, Donald

Duthie, Des

Low, Catherine

McLeod, Matthew

Science & Math

Cambridge University Press

Science for the New Zealand Curriculum Year 9 Workbook and CD-ROM

Science for the New Zealand Curriculum Year 10 Workbook and CD-ROM

Science for the New Zealand Curriculum Years 9&10 Teacher CD-Rom

Science for the New Zealand Curriculum Year 11 continues from the Year 9 and 10 titles in the series to cover Level 6 of the Science Learning Area and the realigned NCEA Level 1 Achieving Standards. Like the earlier books, the Nature of Science strand is the overarching theme through which the textbook aims to bring to students the story of science as a human endeavour, relating to our everyday lives and the world. The text and it's workbook are written by teachers with many years experience of preparing students for high achievement in the NCEA. The books offer a range of activities that encourage students to think like a scientist and understand, investigate, communicate, participate and contribute to the world of science.

Science for the New Zealand Curriculum Year 11

Groves, Geoffrey

Tennant, Ian

Afforestation and deforestation represent major and dramatic transformations in the pattern of land use throughout the world. These frequently controversial changes are often presented as a confrontation between economic, social and environmental forces. "Forest Economics" shows that economics has a crucial role to play in forestry. The author begins by examining the influence of profit-maximizing on considers silvicultural decision-making. It proceeds from optimal rotation dete rmination, via selection of spacing and thinning regimes, to crop improvement and protection decisions, and choice between silvicultural systems. Part 3 is concerned largely with the rationale and applications of cost-benefit analysis. It considers in detail both the evaluation of the social benefits and costs of forestry, and the pricing of factors of production in developing economies. The book's concluding section discusses the role of forestry in the generation of national and regional employment,in state involvement in forestry,in world timber prices and the interpretation of forestry policy at local level. managers,economists, forest managers, land use policy makers and those with an interest in the economic basis of forestry.

The Theory and Application of Forest Economics

Nature & Ecology

Blackwell*publishers

Afforestation and deforestation represent major and dramatic transformations in the pattern of land use throughout the world. These frequently controversial changes are often presented as a confrontation between economic, social and environmental forces. "Forest Economics" shows that economics has a crucial role to play in forestry. The author begins by examining the influence of profit-maximizing on the way in which foresters take decisions on harvesting timber, planting forests and the management of crops. The second part of the book considers silvicultural decision-making. It proceeds from optimal rotation determination, via selection of spacing and thinning regimes, to crop improvement and protection decisions, and choice between silvicultural systems. Part 3 is concerned largely with the rationale and applications of cost-benefit analysis. It considers in detail both the evaluation of the social benefits and costs of forestry, and the pricing of factors of production in developing economies. The book's concluding section discusses the role of forestry in the generation of national and regional employment, in state involvement in forestry, in world timber prices and the interpretation of forestry policy at local level.

Blackwell Pub.

The perception that an income today is worth more than the same income tomorrow underlies the process of discounting future values, the almost universal basis of resource evaluation and of public and private investment decision-making. In this text, Colin Price argues that the premises on which discounting is based are mistaken, the logic underlying it misconceived and the case for applying it in practice untenable. The early chapters review the traditional arguments for discounting - based on return on investment and human preference for immediate consumption - and finds them fatally flawed. The central part of the book examines in detail the underlying causes for value changes over time, and the effectiveness of conventional discounting in representing these changes. It covers physical, technological, psychological, financial, ethical and political factors. The final chapters suggest how resources may be valued and investments selected for the future benefit of this generation, and for that of future generations. This is, in sum, a contribution to a central debate in economics and public accounting, illustrated with a wide range of examples and cases. It raises issues which need to be addressed if economics is to claim ethical legitimation, and if resources are to be managed sustainably. It is fully referenced and indexed, and contains diagrams. The text should be suitable for students of environmental economics, resource economics and environmental science.

Time, Discounting and Value

Economics

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