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New directions in productivity measurement and efficiency analysis : counting the environment and natural resources

Ancev, Tihomir (ed.); Azad, M. A. Samad (ed.); … - 2017

Contents: 1. Introduction / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Francesc Hernández Sancho -- 2. Environmentally adjusted productivity and efficiency: a review of concepts, methods and empirical work / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Mahmuda Akter -- 3. Modeling pollution abatement technologies as...

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Economics and environmental change : the challenges we face

Tisdell, Clement A. - 2017

Contents: Preface -- 1. Cconomics and environmental change : an overview -- 2. Growing economic activity and environmental change : historical and general perspectives. -- 3. Sustainable (economic) development. what is it? is it desirable? can it be achieved and if so, how? -- 4. Values,...

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Building a climate resilient economy and society : challenges and opportunities

Ninan, Karachepone N. (ed.); Inoue, Makoto (ed.) - 2017

Contents: Foreword / Sir Robert T. Watson -- 1. Introduction -- K.N. Ninan and Makoto Inoue -- Part I: Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience -- 2. The environmental impact of climate change adaptation on land use and water quality / Carlo Fezzi, Amii R. Harwood, Andrew A. Lovett and Ian J....

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Research handbook of sustainability agency

Teerikangas, Satu (ed.); Onkila, Tiina (ed.); … - 2021

developing world: The case of India / Shenaz Rangwala and Chanaka Jayawardhena -- 26. Sustainability practices in informal …

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Personal sustainability practices : faculty approaches to walking the sustainability talk and living the UN SDGs

Starik, Mark (ed.); Kanashiro, Patricia (ed.) - 2021

Contents: 1. Introduction to personal sustainability practices / Mark Starik and Patricia Kanashiro -- 2. Why focus on faculty personal sustainability? / Mark Starik, Patricia Kanashiro, and Gordon Rands -- Part I: Sustainability practices in action -- 3. Design for the experience: A more...

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Cities and sustainable technology transitions : leadership, innovation and adoption

Geenhuizen, Marina S. van (ed.); Holbrook, J. Adam (ed.); … - 2018

Contents: Part I Introduction -- 1. Transitions in socio-technical systems and challenges of city leadership / Marina van Geenhuizen, Adam Holbrook and Mozhdeh Taheri -- Part II Assets and networks in cities -- Energy -- 2. Cities and photovoltaic inventions: global leaders over time / Pieter...

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Managing without growth : slower by design, not disaster

Victor, Peter A. - 2019 - Second edition

Contents: Preface -- 1. The idea of economic growth -- 2. Why manage without growth? -- 3. Systems, information and prices -- 4. Pricing nature -- 5. Limits to growth - sources -- 6. Limits to growth - sinks and services -- 7. Limits to growth - synthesis -- 8. Scale, composition and technology...

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Central and local government relations in Asia : achieving fiscal sustainability

Yoshino, Naoyuki (ed.); Morgan, Peter J. (ed.) - 2017

Contents: Preface -- Part I Frameworks for central-local government relations -- 1. Frameworks for central-local government relations and fiscal sustainability / Peter J. Morgan and Long Q. Trinh -- 2. Looking beyond conventional intergovernmental fiscal frameworks: principles, realities, and...

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Handbook on growth and sustainability

Victor, Peter A. (ed.); Dolter, Brett (ed.) - 2017

live in a finite world / Peter Timmerman -- 3. Sustainable development, limits and growth: reflections on the conundrum … / James Meadowcroft -- 4. Sustainability metrics and their use / Peter Bartelmus -- 5. A new economics for our full world …, distribution and the environment / Steven Pressman and Robert H. Scott, III -- 17. Growth and sustainability in a material world …

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Sustainability economics

Atkinson, Giles (ed.); Fankhauser, Samuel (ed.) - 2019

', Kyklos, 29 (1), January, 97-111 -- 4. Gro Harlem Brundtland (1985), 'World Commission on Environment and Development … and Michael Clemens (1999), 'Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries', World Bank Economic Review, 13 (2), May, 333 …, the Environment, and the Social Rate of Discount', World Bank Research Observer, 6 (2), July, 137-52 -- 31. Partha …

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