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beyond the existing literature to investigate understudied community efforts and spaces, including innovative topics such as … consumption and its paradoxes, it analyses the role of the consumer and provides an exploration of grassroots and community …, marketing and sociology. It will also prove valuable to students and scholars interested in economic entrepreneurship, branding …
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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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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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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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understanding and assessing ecological economics. General strategies for global environmental conservation, policies for government …, 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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This important book highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of … an overview of the challenges of economics, nature conservation and sustainable development and goes on to discuss … social principles involved in nature conservation. General issues examined include: * the value of environmental and resource …
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economics of wetlands, wildlands and biodiversity conservation, and discusses the optimal use and management of a region …
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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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"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …
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Important Option for the Desperate -- 11. New Firms: Change Agents Hiding in Plain Sight -- Appendix A Global Entrepreneurship …"Policy makers give a lot of attention to business creation and entrepreneurship, but they do not have a good resource … for understanding The Truth about Entrepreneurship. The extensive media coverage of Wall Street entrepreneurship provides …
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