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Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disast…
Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually happens. This book develo…
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- 978-3-319-40694-7
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- 333.7
A Violent World: Modern Threats to Economic Stability
During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging population, the failure of technical progress, and the scarcity of savings. The other three have b…
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- 978-1-137-58993-4
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- XIV, 181
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- 339 LOR v
Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Development
“This book is the second publication in the ‘Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy’ series, and targets both professional and lay audiences. … this book can be recommended to a wide readership; excellently written, it is one of the first books to address both the technical and policy dimensions of GMCs in development.” (George H. L. Rothschild, Food Security, Vol.…
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- 978-1-349-56167-4
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- XVII, 206
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- 330 QAI g
Environmental and Social-economic Impacts of Sewage Sludge Treatment The Evi…
This book presents an experimental simulation of sewage treatment, which is designed to evaluate the environmental and social-economic impacts of integrated sewage treatment policies. The author puts forward a comprehensive linear optimization simulation model that takes the environmental, energy and economic systems into consideration. Beijing was selected as a typical Chinese city for the pur…
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- 978-981-287-948-6
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
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Environmental Policy and Renewable Energy Equipment Exports An Empirical Ana…
This thesis investigates the connection between environmental regulation, technological innovation, and export competitiveness in renewable energy equipment based on a large sample of 225 developed and developing countries from 1990 to 2012. The empirical analysis yields strong supporting evidence for the narrowly strong Porter Hypothesis as well as for the lead market theory. The results sugge…
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- 978-3-658-13558-4
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- 17 b/w illustrations
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Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
This book investigates the relationship between environmental degradation and income, focusing on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from around the world, to explore the possibility of sustainable development under global warming. Although many researchers have tackled this problem by estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), unlike the approach to sulfur dioxide emissions, there seems to …
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- 978-4-431-55921-4
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- 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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Environmental Heresies The Quest for Reasonable
This book systematically deconstructs the pervasive and counter-productive discourse surrounding environmental policy. The authors argue that environmental policy problems are always framed such that conflict is inevitable—a particular project or policy must be accepted versus a specific environmental asset that must be protected. Over the course of 12 chapters, the authors demonstrate that c…
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- 978-1-137-60083-7
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- 8 b/w illustrations
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Environmental Finance and Investments
This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment strategies that the Kyoto Protocol and the emerging carbon pricing schemes around the world should pro…
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- 978-3-662-48175-2
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- 36 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
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Energy and Finance Sustainability in the Energy Industry
This book analyses how socially responsible investments as well as the rising importance of Islamic finance are linked to the shift towards renewable energy. Academics and practitioners in the field take a global perspective and present case studies from several countries. The book is divided into three parts: The first part sheds new light on the energy shift towards renewable energy. The seco…
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- 978-3-319-32268-1
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- 6 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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Energy Technology and Valuation Issues
This volume investigates the impact of energy technology innovations on economic development and presents new areas of research into the financial economics of energy as well as new studies into valuation, electricity pricing and the economic, regulatory and environmental costs of alternative energy sources. Academics and practitioners take a global perspective and present cases from several co…
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- 978-3-319-13746-9
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- 37 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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