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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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Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, with contributions covering both basic and advanced...
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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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This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relevant for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; health care...
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Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Economics for the environment : a primer -- International environmental …
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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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questioning the reasoning behind its growth, its impact on the environment and trade as well as its effect on the development of … (1999), 'Globalisation, Transport and the Environment: New Perspectives for Ecological Economics', Ecological Economics, 31 … (3), December, 331-46 -- Peter Nijkamp (2003), 'Globalization, International Transport and the Global Environment: A …
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sustainable consumption. Tackling the issues facing information systems and the environment on an individual, organisational, and …
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economic development and the environment. It both analyses the experience during the last five decades and discusses the major …. Environment and Agriculture in a Developing Economy will therefore be of particular interest to developmental and environmental … economists as well as international organisations and NGOs committed to environment and development issues …
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