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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851917
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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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The world's wine markets : globalization at work
Anderson, Kym (contributor) - 2004
centuries wine was very much a European product. While that is still the case today--three-quarters of world wine production …, consumption and trade involve Europe and most of the rest involves just a handful of New World countries settled by Europeans …pt. 1. Overview -- pt. 2. The old world -- pt. 3. The new world -- pt. 4. Other emerging markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850573
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Handbook of sustainable development
Atkinson, Giles (ed.) - 2014 - Second edition
This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved. -- 'This Handbook demonstrates the well-established body of thinking on sustainable development which now exists, and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850613
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Global governance and the role of the EU : assessing the future balance of power
Villafranca, Antonio (contributor);  … - 2011
Three years after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, economic growth has resurfaced across the world …pt. 1. Heading to 2020 : a new world economic governance? -- pt. 2. Carving out a place for the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850619
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Urban and regional prosperity in a globalised new economy
Meadows, G. Richard (contributor); Sugden, Roger (contributor) - Institute-Milwaukee Workshop on Urban and Regional … - 2003
There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850624
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Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics
Lawn, Philip A. (contributor) - 2006
Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850668
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Monetary integration and dollarization : no panacea
Vernengo, Matias (contributor) - 2005
This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850704
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Handbook of research on energy entrepreneurship
Wüstenhagen, Rolf (ed.); Wuebker, Robert (ed.) - 2011
of energy entrepreneurship. As the world grapples with global resource crunches and fights to reap the rewards of new … Entrepreneurship offers critical insight on how nations the world over can make full use of those opportunities. -- An informed blend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850714
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The internationalisation of mobile telecommunications : strategic challenges in a global market
Curwen, Peter J. - 2008
Based upon the very latest data available, the underlying premise of the book is that mobile telecommunications is such a fast-moving sector that operators are obliged to alter their international strategies as circumstances unravel without necessarily having a long-term master plan, and hence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850787