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The debate on the valuation of nature and the environment, sustainable national income and economic growth is one of prime importance in environmental economics. Economic Growth and Valuation of the Environment deals with the fundamental approaches to calculating sustainable national income and...
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goal of achieving economic and environmental sustainability in the European Union. It presents an invaluable contribution … to the growing literature on the sustainability and policy aspects of trade liberalization, focusing on European … agriculture. Agriculture, Trade and the Environment discusses quantitative methods for the assessment of agriculture …
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This important book challenges conventional development theory by addressing not only technological but also socio-economic factors influencing low agricultural productivity in the developing world. Agricultural productivity has long been regarded as a fundamental factor in influencing economic...
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This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...
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Decision-makers increasingly seek to design environmental and development policies that will support sustainable development. Thus, practical tools to help formulate sustainable development policies and clear methods to assess their acceptability and effectiveness are urgently needed. This book...
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With the increasingly evident and widespread impact of economic activity on the environment, there is a growing concern in all parts of the world for environmental considerations to be more fully reflected in economic decision-making. The Polluter-Pays, User-Pays and Precautionary principles are...
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, corporate social responsibility, management and sustainability, and environmental management. It will also appeal to those …
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pt. 1. Sustainable development : making the concept operational for evaluation -- pt. 2. Methods of evaluating SD -- pt …. 3. National evaluation culture. …Evaluating sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in policy making, evaluation practice and the …
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This book discusses important recent developments in the theory, concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field of ecological economics
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