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This unique book provides cutting-edge knowledge and analyses of the consequences that climate change will have for sustainable development and poverty reduction within the context of global development
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pt. 1. Defining sustainability -- pt. 2. Issues in modelling sustainability -- pt. 3. Model descriptions -- pt. 4 …
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This study offers a unique evolutionary economics perspective on energy and innovation policies in the wider context of …
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Globalization has created new ways of doing business, new institutions to oversee them, and has introduced a spectrum of new protagonists to the international arena. Scholars and practitioners have been challenged by the evolving environment to find new ways to interact and, in the process, many...
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, emerging economies and innovation from a variety of different perspectives. Innovation is regarded as a core driving force in … the global economy but the authors show how it can impede as well as encourage sustainability. The book brings together …
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towards sustainability, this Handbook proposes more appropriate measures of innovation as a driver of change. It examines … comprehensive picture of its impacts. Chapters by leading authors from the sectors of eco-innovation, sustainability transformations …"Through careful investigation into the role of eco-innovation as a catalysing factor in the societal transition …
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"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides...
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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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The book investigates various strategies to provide countries with an incentive to accede, agree and comply to an international environmental agreement (IEA). Finus shows that by integrating real world restrictions into a model, game theory is a powerful tool for explaining the divergence...
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This book analyses the policy mixes that provide the best possible incentives for firms and governments to act on climate change and sign up to international climate agreements. In doing so, the authors address a multitude of related issues including the linkages between flexible mechanisms and...
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