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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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- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations
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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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Green giants? :environmental policies of the United States and the European U…
The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability. Green Giants?, one of the most detailed comparisons of the environmental policies of Ameri…
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- 9780262285544
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 398 pages)
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- American and Comparative Environmental Policy
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Greening the Americas :NAFTA's lessons for hemispheric trade
"Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented and discussed in the Spring of 2000 at a conference on lessons from the NAFTA for the FTAA"--Preface.Attention to environmental issues is vital if the full potential economic benefits of international trade are to be realized. Greening the Americas offers a number of analytically rigorous proposals to ensure that economic integrat…
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- 9780262271387
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) : illustrations
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Growth and empowerment :making development happen
Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In Growth and Empowerment, Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and F. Halsey Roge…
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- 9780262284349
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 463 pages) : illustrations.
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- Munich Lectures in Economics
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Consensus and global environment governance :deliberative democracy in nature…
In this book, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the practical and conceptual implications of a new approach to international environmental governance. Their proposed approach, juristic democracy, emphasizes the role of the citizen rather than the nation-state as the source of legitimacy in international environmental law; it is rooted in local knowledge and grounded in democratic deliber…
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages) :map.
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