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, poverty, resource degradation and decision-making under uncertainty. The book explores the allocation of resources in jointly …-dependent economies. The final part considers the way that decision makers handle the uncertainty that is an integral feature of the …
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Despite their common emphasis upon uncertainty as a key economic variable, Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes viewed … role in ensuring the smooth operation of a system of otherwise free markets. Ethics and Uncertainty explores how two … economists, who both placed 'uncertainty' at the heart of their economic theories, come to drastically different and opposing …
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1. Issues in water pricing reforms : from getting correct prices to setting appropriate institutions -- 2. Spatial environmental policy -- 3. Environmental equity and the siting of hazardous waste facilities in OECD Countries : evidence and policies -- 4. Strategies to conserve biodiversity --...
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1. Introduction -- 2. Economic criteria for water allocation and valuation -- 3. Water as an economic good -- 4. Appraising flood control investments in the UK -- 5. Cost-benefit analysis and flood control policy in the Netherlands -- 6. Cost-benefit analysis of river restoration in Denmark --...
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This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relevant for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; health care...
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1. Support for environmental policy decisions -- 2. History and scope of TCM -- 3. Demand theory and TCM -- 4. Benefits theory and TCM -- 5. Design principles for TCMs -- 6. Design and administration of surveys -- 7. Measurement of the variables -- 8. Data management and analysis -- 9....
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1. The management of high seas fisheries resources and the implementation of the UN Fish Stocks Agreement of 1995 -- 2. Choosing environmental risks -- 3. Stability and design of international environmental agreements : the case of transboundary pollution -- 4. Managing environmental risk...
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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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uncertainty : theory and practice -- 5. A post Keynesian approach to the theory of the firm -- 6. Trust, time and uncertainty -- 7 …
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lessons / Piero V. Mini -- 3. Market structure, uncertainty and unemployment / Malcolm Sawyer and Nina Shapiro -- 4. Keynes … / John E. King -- 6. Uncertainty, rationality and learning : a Keynesian perspective / Alessandro Vercelli -- 7. Organicism …, uncertainty and 'societal interactionism' : a Derridean perspective / Man-Seop Park and Serap Kayatekin -- 8. Classical liberalism …
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