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Geopolitics and the Green Revolution
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 89.99Perkins explores why four countries each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization. more...
Effective Environmental Regulation
Greenwood Publishing Group 2000; US$ 125.00Challenging views prevalent among Western and Polish scholars, this book explains Poland's surprising success in developing effective environmental and occupational regulatory systems while achieving remarkable socioeconomic growth, despite the legacy of the Communist era. more...
Redesigning Environmental Valuation
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00Explores the extent to which the challenges facing stated preference environmental valuation can be overcome through mixing methods. This work considers two approaches: mixing methods within conventional stated preference; and then explore the use of group methods within preference construction and forming a social consensus on willingness to pay. more...
Economic Valuation of River Systems
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00Applies benefit-cost analysis and non-market and distribution economic valuation methods in ecologic context to determine the pay-off and distribution impacts of various infrastructure and water quality improvements to eight river systems in the Great Lakes region of the US. more...
Human Ecology Economics
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95This book presents ?human ecology economics? as a new and more comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for understanding ?world conditions and human systems?. This book helps economists rethink the boundaries and methods of their discipline - so that they can participate more fully in debates over humankind?s present problems and on the ways that... more...
Quantitative Economics
Springer 2008; US$ 119.99a oeQuantitative Eco-nomicsa cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics. Environmental accounts and empirical analyses provide operational concepts and measures of the sustainability of economic performance and growth. They facilitate rational and compatible... more...
Markets for Carbon and Power Pricing in Europe
Edward Elgar Publishing 2008; US$ 40.00Beginning with an overview of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) along with an analysis of the early results and the theoretical issues involved, this book explores the main European power markets via a number of empirical case studies. It offers a comprehensive analysis on the relationship between carbon and power markets. more...
Changing Stocks, Flows and Behaviors in Industrial Ecosystems
Edward Elgar Publishing 2008; US$ 40.00Presents analogies and analytical concepts pertinent to understanding the dynamics of industrial ecosystems, and offers a reflection on the use of those analogies and concepts, their limitations and potential extensions. This book focuses on stock and flow dynamics at the firm and industry level. more...
Innovations Towards Sustainability
Springer 2007; US$ 79.99Contains eight articles together with comments by twenty authors and discussants on the topic of innovations and sustainability. This volume provides an insight into the relation between innovations and sustainability from the perspective of evolutionary economics. more...
Right Relationship
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2009; US$ 16.95In this groundbreaking guide to building an ethical economy, Peter Brown and his colleagues at the Quaker Institute for the Future show readers how a system that embodies the core Quaker principle of "right relationship" can deliver a more equitable and sustainable future. more...









