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Deforestation and climate change : reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
Bosetti, Valentina (ed.); Lubowski, Ruben N. (ed.) - 2010
Deforestation and emerging greenhouse gas compliance regimes : toward a global environmental law of forests, carbon and … deforestation : a stock-flow approach with target reductions /Andrea Cattaneo --Towards a sound REDD : ensuring globally consistent …"Deforestation and forest degradation have long been recognized as environmental problems, with concerns over …
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Payments for environmental services, forest conservation, and climate change : livelihoods in the REDD?
Tacconi, Luca (ed.); Mahanty, Sango (ed.); Suich, Helen (ed.) - 2010
Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) schemes at the national level. With its focus on livelihoods, the … other than carbon conservation. Drawing practical lessons for the design of activities aimed at reducing deforestation and … accessible also to non-experts in presenting the key issues faced in avoiding deforestation and benefiting livelihoods. …
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Markets for carbon and power pricing in Europe : theoretical issues and empirical analyses
Gullì, Francesco (contributor) - 2008
Why do power prices seem to be correlated with the carbon price in some markets and not in others? This crucial question is at the centre of Francesco Gullì's enlightening book, through which the contributing authors investigate a number of related issues. In particular, they explore why power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851445
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Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
Kalkuhl, Matthias (ed.); Braun, Joachim von (ed.);  … - 2016
This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from...
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The economics of climate change
Chichilnisky, Graciela (contributor) - 2010
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Towards a Sustainable Economy : Paradoxes and Trends in Energy and Transportation
Da Costa, Pascal (ed.); Attias, Danielle (ed.) - 2018
This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system. Drawing on methods from engineering, the management sciences and economics, which it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396763
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The Low Carbon Economy : Understanding and Supporting a Sustainable Transition
Paterson, Fred (ed.); Baranova, Polina (ed.);  … - 2017
This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transformation from a ‘brown’ to ‘green’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397721
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Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming
Hunt, Colin - 2009
"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest …
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Handbook on food : demand, supply, sustainability and security
Jha, Raghbendra (ed.); Gaiha, Raghav (ed.);  … - 2014
: monitoring food security in a volatile world / Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan -- 4. Food price …-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851250
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Distributional impacts of climate change and disasters : concepts and cases
Ruth, Matthias (ed.); Ibarrarán, María Eugenia (ed.) - 2009
Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back development, destroy livelihoods, and increase disparity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851340