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"Providing an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this comprehensive … Companion offers a detailed examination of the ADB's objectives, policies, development outcomes, strengths and weaknesses, areas … to the literature on the ADB, delivering in-depth assessments of its operations to date and succinctly summarising its …
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Decision-makers increasingly seek to design environmental and development policies that will support sustainable development. Thus, practical tools to help formulate sustainable development policies and clear methods to assess their acceptability and effectiveness are urgently needed. This book...
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With the increasingly evident and widespread impact of economic activity on the environment, there is a growing concern …
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This is the second of two volumes of case studies that illustrate how environmental economists place values on environmental assets and on the flows of goods and services generated by those assets. This important book assembles studies that discuss broad areas of application of economic...
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. Sustainable development and indicators of human-environment interaction -- pt. 6. Concluding assessments of sustainable …
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In this book, the first of two volumes, the authors provide detailed case studies of valuation techniques that have been used in developing countries. They demonstrate that valuation works and that it can yield significant insights into policy-relevant issues regarding conservation and economic...
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This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...
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The debate on the valuation of nature and the environment, sustainable national income and economic growth is one of … prime importance in environmental economics. Economic Growth and Valuation of the Environment deals with the fundamental … approaches to calculating sustainable national income and their implications for the valuation of the environment …
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This book brings together some of the most important recent developments in the various aspects of environmental economics as well as providing an introduction to its theory and practice. Environmental valuation techniques, including exciting new approaches such as production function...
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agriculture. Agriculture, Trade and the Environment discusses quantitative methods for the assessment of agriculture-environment …
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