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The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn...
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Nature and agriculture both shape the European countryside and one of the main challenges for the years to come will be to strengthen their interaction for the future development of rural areas. In this valuable and highly topical book, the authors demonstrate how economics and ecology can play...
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This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable...
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Dick Netzer, a leading public finance economist specializing in state and local issues and urban government, brings together in this comprehensive volume essays by top scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute...
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Models are used to estimate potential physical and biological impacts, efficient adaptations, and residual damages from climate change. The contributors cover a broad array of climate change impacts on affected market sectors (including water supply, agriculture, coastal resources, timber, and...
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the living environment. It begins by covering the ethical foundations and basic economic paradigms--essential for …, conservation of natural areas, forestry, agriculture and the environment, tourism, sustainable development and demographic change …1. Economics and the living environment -- 2. Global conservation strategies and concerns -- 3. Markets and government …
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conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of conserving the natural environment and economic growth. The book opens with … * financing the management of nature reserves This book will be essential reading for economists interested in the environment …
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The Economics of Environment and Development is a carefully edited selection of Edward Barbier's most influential … developing countries, as well as the long run conditions under which an economy might trade-off environment and growth to achieve …'s remaining wild or natural habitat areas. The final section of the book deals with trade and the environment and focuses on the …
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"This engaging book contributes to the contemporary environmental and natural sciences by offering a comparative intellectual framework. S. Niggol Seo provides an exposition of four pressing modern problems through the Buddhist perspective which he calls the environmental philosophy of the old...
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1. Agriculture and the environment / Jeff Bennett -- 2. Land-use management in China / Xuehong Wang, Hongyun Han and …
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