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Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable development : principles and practices with Asian examples
Tisdell, Clement Allan - 1999
economics in planning sustainable development * the importance of biodiversity conservation for sustainable development and for …This important book highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of … conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of conserving the natural environment and economic growth. The book opens with …
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Valuing the environment in developing countries : case studies
Pearce, Corin (contributor); Palmer, Charles (contributor);  … - 2002
policy-relevant issues regarding conservation and economic development. The authors address a whole range of environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851465
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The impact of climate change on regional systems : a comprehensive analysis of California
Smith, Joel B. (contributor);  … - 2006
supply, agriculture, coastal resources, timber, and energy demand) as well as ecosystems and biodiversity. An integrated … biodiversity …. Terrestrial ecosystem changes / James M. Lenihan, Raymond Drapek and Ronald Neilson -- 6. Biodiversity changes and adaptation …
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Handbook on biodiversity and ecosystem services in impact assessment
Geneletti, Davide (contributor) - 2016
conservation / Lea Bulling and Johann Köppel -- 14. Cumulative effects of dams on biodiversity / Asha Rajvanshi -- Part III Current … issues and challenges -- 15. Addressing the interactions between biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation in impact …Chapter 1. Introduction / Davide Geneletti -- Part 1 Mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services in impact …
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The economics of environment and development : selected essays
Barbier, Edward - 1998
economics of wetlands, wildlands and biodiversity conservation, and discusses the optimal use and management of a region …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 …
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Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics
Lawn, Philip A. (contributor) - 2006
. Sustainable development and indicators of human-environment interaction -- pt. 6. Concluding assessments of sustainable …
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Ecological economics of the oceans and coasts
Patterson, M. G. (ed.); Glavovic, Bruce Christopher (ed.) - 2008
This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are, and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly being recognized, as critical limits to the economic exploitation of our oceans and coasts are reached. The authors argue that ecological economics is in a unique...
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Explorations in environmental and natural resource economics : essays in honor of Gardner M. Brown, Jr
Layton, David, F. (contributor);  … - 2006
pt. 1. Conservation of biological resources -- pt. 2. Resource modeling, growth and environmental quality -- pt. 3 …
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The evolution of water resource planning and decision making
Russell, Clifford S. (contributor);  … - 2009
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, but the book concentrates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852021
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The environmentalism of the poor : a study of ecological conflicts and valuation
Martinez-Alier, Joan - 2002
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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