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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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the living environment. It begins by covering the ethical foundations and basic economic paradigms--essential for …, 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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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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. Resources, the environment and economic growth : is natural capital substitutable? -- 4. Preserving natural capital in a world …
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account the direct and indirect effects of abatement on the economy and the environment. The author goes on to apply the model …
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In this book, Tingsong Jiang extensively discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. The book begins with a general analysis of economic instruments of pollution control, and is...
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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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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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