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Greening Household Behaviour
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 42.00Household consumption patterns and behaviour have an impact on stocks of natural resources, environmental quality and climate change. This is expected to increase significantly in the future. In response, governments have introduced a variety of measures to encourage people to take into consideration the environmental impact of their purchases and... more...
Valuing Complex Natural Resource Systems
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 40.00In complex natural resource systems, modifications or disruptions tend to affect many and diverse components of the ecological system, settlements and groups of people. This book uses the Lagoon of Venice ? a unique natural resource, wildlife habitat, center of cultural heritage and recreational site ? as an example of one such system that has been... more...
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Portugal 2011
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 63.00This report presents the OECD review of Portugals environmental policy performance for 2011. It finds that environmental policies have been consolidated and strengthened since the last review in 2001, but that meeting the post-Kyoto targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be challenging. With energy and climate policies being... more...
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Norway 2011
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 63.00This report presents the third OECD review of Norways environmental policy performance. Previous reviews were published in 2001 and 1993. Topics covered in this report include greening growth, implementation of environmental policies, international cooperation, climate change, waste management and the 3Rs (reduce,... more...
Clean, Green and Blue
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 85.40When Singapore became a sovereign state in 1965, the fledgling nation faced very similar problems as most other developing countries: high unemployment, low standard of living, and poor environmental conditions. In a scant four decades, it has become the 6th wealthiest country in the world in terms of per capita GDP and has managed its environment... more...
Governance, Politics and the Environment
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 98.90In the past two decades, research on environmental issues in East and Southeast Asian countries has mainly focused on existing institutional mechanisms of environmental management, the establishment of new environmental management structures, the introduction of incentives to improve natural capital and foster environmental protection, and the culture... more...
Global Environmental Policies
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer... more...
The Economics and Politics of Climate Change
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 34.99The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end. Though there has been much enthusiasm from political and environmental groups, the underlying economics and politics remain highly controversial. This book takes a cool headed look at the critical roadblocks to agreement,... more...
Rethinking International Finance
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 199.00The recent financial crisis of historical proportion has provided a natural laboratory to stress test our theories about how global financial markets and institutions work. The papers in this e-book provide results of some of these experiments related to different issues that arose from the crisis. The findings of these papers should be relevant to... more...









