Valuing The Global Environment
DOWNLOAD
Download Valuing The Global Environment PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Valuing The Global Environment book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Valuing The Global Environment
DOWNLOAD
Author : Global Environment Facility
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Valuing The Global Environment written by Global Environment Facility and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Medical categories.
Valuing The Global Environment
DOWNLOAD
Author : Harriet Bulkeley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998*
Valuing The Global Environment written by Harriet Bulkeley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998* with Environmental policy categories.
Global Climate Change
DOWNLOAD
Author : James M. Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Global Climate Change written by James M. Griffin and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Global climate change cannot be understood without knowing the fundamental principles of science, economics and politics that condition our policy choices. To that end, the contributors to this volume, experts in their respective fields, take a comprehensive look at the major issues involved. This volume is written for policymakers and informed citizenry who want to understand at a general level the complexities of global climate change without becoming enmeshed in technical minutia. The introduction emphasizes the core fact that climate change issues cut across disciplines. William Schlesinger and Gerald North explain the carbon cycle and how increased greenhouse gases impact temperature. The economics papers deal with the applicability of benefit/cost analysis and then proceed to examine the benefits of avoiding temperature change versus the costs of the various CO2 abatement options. Finally, David Victor, a Stanford political scientist, asks which policies are feasible in a world where the incentives differ dramatically among countries. The book closes with open letters to the President of the United States.
The Stated Preference Approach To Environmental Valuation Volumes I Ii And Iii
DOWNLOAD
Author : Richard T. Carson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-20
The Stated Preference Approach To Environmental Valuation Volumes I Ii And Iii written by Richard T. Carson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-20 with Science categories.
There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities. This three volume set provides the key papers for understanding the historical development of contingent valuation, its theoretical and statistical foundations, and the major controversies. It also contains representative papers covering all of the major application areas in environmental valuation.
Valuing World Heritage Cities
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tanja Vahtikari
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-03
Valuing World Heritage Cities written by Tanja Vahtikari and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism. While it is the national governments that nominate sites for inclusion in the World Heritage List, and the intergovernmental World Heritage Committee that makes the final decision on inclusion or non-inclusion, it is the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) for cultural heritage that determines whether the necessary level of ‘outstanding universal value’ is met. Focusing on the discourses of ICOMOS and their transmission to the local context, this book is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities illustrated through a case study of Old Rauma in Finland. The book contributes to the understanding of the discursive and constructed nature of World Heritage values as opposed to intrinsic values, critically scrutinizes the role of ICOMOS in making valuations concerning urban heritage, and sheds light on the interactions and tensions of universal and local (urban) perspectives in the practice of heritage valuation. Valuing World Heritage Cities is the first in-depth historical analysis of the construction of heritage value in the context of cities in the transnational discourses of heritage. This unique and timely contribution will be of interest to scholars and students working in Heritage Studies, Cultural Geography, Urban Studies and Tourism.
The Economics Of Sustainability
DOWNLOAD
Author : John C.V. Pezzey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
The Economics Of Sustainability written by John C.V. Pezzey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Before the late 1980s, when the ideas of sustainability and sustainable development to the forefront of public debate, conventional, neo-classical economic thinking about development and growth had rarely given any consideration to the needs of future generations, or the sustainability of natural resource use. Defining sustainability broadly as intergenerational fairness in the long-term decision making of a whole society, and using established economic concepts, this selection of refereed journal articles brings a famously ill-defined concept into sharp focus, providing academics at all levels with a formidable research tool. Spanning thirty years of the most important philosophical, theoretical and empirical contributions from both critics and defenders of neo-classical assumptions and methods of economic analysis, this focused collection of papers constitutes a unique, balanced resource on the full range of intellectual debates surrounding the economics of sustainability.
Cities Networks And Global Environmental Governance
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sofie Bouteligier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
Cities Networks And Global Environmental Governance written by Sofie Bouteligier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Political Science categories.
As a result of global dynamics--the increasing interconnection of people and places--innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our increasingly global and increasingly urban world. Through analysis of transnational municipal networks, such as Metropolis and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation and interviews and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic pertaining to office networks of environmental non-governmental organizations and environmental consultancy firms. In doing so she incisively demonstrates the ways in which cities fulfill the role of strategic sites of global environmental governance, concentrating knowledge, infrastructure, and institutions vital to the function of transnational actors.
International Encyclopedia Of Environmental Politics
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Barry
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2002
International Encyclopedia Of Environmental Politics written by John Barry and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Nature categories.
Examining all the ideas and issues at stake in environmental politics, this Encyclopedia is the ideal reference source, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject.
A Catalogue Of Ecosystem Services In Slovakia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Peter Mederly
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-06
A Catalogue Of Ecosystem Services In Slovakia written by Peter Mederly and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-06 with Science categories.
This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of ecosystem services (ES) for the territory of the Slovak Republic. Although the ES approach is widely used for the evaluation of the benefits of natural capital and biodiversity for people, this book has a unique character. It provides an assessment of 18 individual ES, which are divided into three main groups - provisioning, regulatory/supporting and cultural ES. For each of ES, a brief theoretical and methodological overview is given, followed by spatial assessment based on own original methodology and dataset of 40 map layers. Besides, an evaluation of main ES groups and overall ES assessment is realized. This book emphasizes the key role of nature protection areas, large areas of forest ecosystems and mountain and sub-mountain areas, for the preservation of the various functions of the healthy landscape and ecosystems. The complexity of the book guarantees its usefulness - not only as the knowledge base for the territory of Slovakia but also as the methodological tool for worldwide researchers.
The Essence Of Rum A Theory Of The Intensional And Extensional Aspects Of Lisp Type Computation
DOWNLOAD
Author : Carolyn L. Talcott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Essence Of Rum A Theory Of The Intensional And Extensional Aspects Of Lisp Type Computation written by Carolyn L. Talcott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Algebraic logic categories.
Rum is a theory of applicative, side-effect free computations over an algebraic data structure. It goes beyond a theory of functions computed by programs, treating both intensional and extensional aspects of computation. Powerful programming tools such as streams, object-oriented programming, escape mechanisms, and co-routines can be represented. Intensional properties include the number of multiplications executed, the number of context switches, and the maximum stack depth required in a computation. Extensional properties include notions of equality for streams and co-routines and characterization of functionals implementing strategies for searching tree-structured spaces. Precise definitions of informal concepts such as stream and co-routine are given and their mathematical theory is developed. Operations on programs treated include program transformations which introduce functional and control abstractions; a compiling morphism that provides a representation of control abstractions as functional abstractions; and operations that transform intensional properties to extensional properties. The goal is not only to account for programming practice in Lisp, but also to improve practice by providing mathematical tools for developing programs and building programming systems. Rum views computation as a process of generating computation structures - trees for context-independent computations and sequences for context-dependent computations. The recursion theorem gives a fixed-point function that computes computationally minimal fixed points. The context insensitivity theorem says that context-dependent computations are uniformly parameterized by the calling context and that computations in which context dependence is localized can be treated like context-independent computations.