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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 6
On cover: National Bureau of Economic Research.This important series presents timely economic research on health care and health policy issues. Each volume contains papers from an annual conference of researchers, government officials, and policy experts held in Washington, D.C. Topics include the effects of health policy reforms, changes in health care organization and management, measurement …
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- 9780262271042
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 142 pages) :illustrations
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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7
"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…
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- 9780262271059
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Escaping the energy poverty trap :when and how governments power the lives of…
The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262349291
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- 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental …
"A Core Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."Here, experts investigate how states and other actors can improve inter-institutional synergy. They examine the complexity of over-lapping environmental governance structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298346
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 353 pages) :illustrations.
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Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order
"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen hel…
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- 9780262266079
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- 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
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Beyond resource wars: Scarcity, environmental degradation, and international …
Common wisdom holds that the Earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly even set off 'resource wars'. This book offers a different perspective on the links between environmental problems and inter-state conflict.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295505
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- 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) :illustrations.
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Open for business :conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation
A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter e…
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- 9780262305297
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Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications
While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently has health's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the explicit mechanisms by which a population's individual and collective health status affects a nation's economic development and perfo…
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- 9780262290586
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- 330 HEA
Going alone :the case for relaxed reciprocity in freeing trade
An analytic and empirical study of unilateral trade liberalization agreements, from the nineteenth century to the present.Since the end of World War II, the freeing of trade has been most visible in reciprocal liberalization agreements negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, and through increasing bilateral and plurilateral agreements. There has also, however, been…
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- 9780262268455
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- 1 online resource (xii, 586 pages) : illustrations
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Governing environmental flows :global challenges to social theory
Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284103
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) : illustrations, map
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