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Climate change and sustainable development : new challenges for poverty reduction

Opschoor, Johannes Baptist (contributor); … - 2009

This unique book provides cutting-edge knowledge and analyses of the consequences that climate change will have for sustainable development and poverty reduction within the context of global development

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Modelling sustainable development : transitions to a sustainable future

Gerlagh, Reyer (contributor); Schleicher, Stefan (contributor) - 2009

This insightful book explores the issue of sustainable development in its more operative and applied sense. Although a great deal of research has addressed potential interpretations and definitions of sustainable development, much of this work is too abstract to offer policy-makers and...

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Instruments for climate policy : limited versus unlimited flexibility

Albrecht, Johan (contributor) - 2002

on limits in flexibility, and discusses EU and US perspectives on climate policy instruments and strategies. This is … flexibility', on the arguments behind the EU ceilings proposal and on voluntary approaches to climate policy. One of the main …1. Introduction / Johan Albrecht -- 2. Climate policy instruments and strategies : EU and US perspectives / Peter …

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The economics of climate change policy : international, national and regional mitigation strategies

Rose, Adam - 2009

This important collection embodies the author's pioneering and on-going efforts to incorporate equity and efficiency principles into the economics of climate change policy. It represents a valuable compendium of work, both previously published and original, the range of which is not otherwise...

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International climate policy to combat global warming : an analysis of the ancillary benefits of reducing carbon emissions

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2002

In their pursuit of policies to combat global warming, countries will find that they may also receive additional benefits which are not directly associated with the primary aim. These ancillary benefits are likely to include, for example, a reduction in pollution as a result of carbon...

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Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming

Hunt, Colin - 2009

"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides...

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Global emissions trading : key issues for industrialized countries

Kerr, Suzi (ed.) - 2000

Issues surrounding Annex I trading - the trading of greenhouse gas emissions among industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change - comprise the central theme of this collection, which offers an integrated discussion of the practical, economic and...

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Twenty-first century macroeconomics : responding to the climate challenge

Harris, Jonathan M. (ed.); Goodwin, Neva R. (ed.) - 2009

The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of...

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Recent advances in environmental economics

List, John A. (contributor); Zeeuw, Aart de (contributor) - 2002

1. A reconsideration of environmental federalism / Wallace E. Oates -- 2. Global environmental governance, political lobbying and transboundary pollution / Surjinder Johal and Alistair Ulph -- 3. Endogenous transfrontier pollution / Michael Rauscher -- 4. Allocating greenhouse gas emissions...

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Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement

Clinch, J. Peter (contributor) - 2002

Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...

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