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Bangladesh in connection with the agricultural-development nexus are not unique to the country. Parallels exist elsewhere in the … developing world and as such Bangladesh is useful as an example from which to draw conclusions about much of the developing world …
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How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding...
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Concerns about natural resource scarcity, together with the increased awareness of environmental problems, has led to widespread interest in green accounting, which attempts to extend the standard national accounts to include the yields from natural and environmental resources. For this volume,...
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Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. Brian Edwards addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric...
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banking and finance alongside conventional banking since the 1980s. The selected countries are Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt …1. Introduction -- 2. Bahrain -- 3. Bangladesh -- 4. Egypt -- 5. Indonesia -- 6. Iran -- 7. Malaysia -- 8. Pakistan …
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1. India / S. Mahendra Dev -- 2. Pakistan / Parvez Hasan -- 3. Bangladesh / Wahiduddin Mahmud -- 4. Sri Lanka / Saman …
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1. Introduction -- 2. Evolutionary economics -- 3. Environmental policy and transition management from an evolutionary perspective -- 4. Evolutionary policy for energy innovations -- 5. Case studies -- 6. Summary and conclusions.
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surface waters : contingent valuation of water quality -- 4. The economics of high-head dam removal in an ecological context … : a case study of the Ballville Dam, Fremont, Ohio -- 5. The economics of low-head dam removal : a case study on the … efficiency and distribution evaluation of dredging of toxic sediments and selected dam removal in the Mahoning River -- 10. An …
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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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1. Currents of environmentalism -- 2. Ecological economics : "taking nature into account" -- 3. Indices of (un) sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism -- 4. Political ecology : the study of ecological distribution conflicts -- 5. Mangroves versus shrimps -- 6. The environmentalism of the poor :...
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