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Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. There is great uncertainty regarding its future impacts on a planetary scale and the extent to which each eco-system and region will be affected. Although there has been much published on climate change mitigation policies,...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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A New Blueprint for a Green Economy
Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical policy measures for 'greening' modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable development. This new book, written by two of the Blueprint for a Green Economy authors, revisits and updates its main...
Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Modeling Environment-Improving Technological Innovations under Uncertainty
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
The issues of technology and uncertainty are very much at the heart of the policy debate of how much to control greenhouse gas emissions. The costs of doing so are present and high while the benefits are very much in the future and, most importantly, they are highly uncertain. Whilst there is broad...
Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Economics of Sustainable Tourism
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people. At the same time, it has many negative outsourced effects on the environment and local culture. Achieving a more sustainable pattern of...
Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
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Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Prospects for Developing Countries
'Makes a substantial contribution to the practical, effective analysis of climate change mitigation options in developing countries.' Development And Cooperation 'The book is an excellent exercise and a good source of detailed information, and a basis for further discussions. Any person interested...
Published May 31st 2002 by Routledge
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Dictionary of Environmental Economics
A comprehensive dictionary of environmental economics, compiled by leading academics in the field. Each expression or phrase is explained clearly in non-technical language, with references given to its use in the growing literature on the subject area. From abatement to zonal travel cost method (...
Published July 31st 2000 by Routledge
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Sustainable Development
Economics and Environment in the Third World
Blueprint for a Green Economy put the economics of the environment onto the public agenda. Its authors have now widened the issue by applying the principles of their earlier, ground-breaking work to the tangled issue of sustainable Third World development. They offer a definition of sustainable...
Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge
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The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Economics
Series: Earthscan Reader Series
Environmental economics may hold the key to the successful management of the world's accelerating environmental problems, from transport and pollution to the wholesale degradation of much of the Third World, climate change and loss of the ozone layer. Increasingly a range of professionals and...
Published September 30th 1992 by Routledge
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Blueprint 1
For a Green Economy
Series: Blueprint Series
This report has been prepared by the London Environmental Economics Centre (LEEC). LEEC is a joint venture, established in 1988, by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the department of Economics of University College London (UCL). Popularly known as The Pearce...
Published August 31st 1989 by Routledge