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Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 34.00The first in-depth description and analysis of the European Emissions Trading Scheme. more...
Carbon-Energy Taxation
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 94.99When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to introduce a tax on CO2. Later, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and the UK followed suit with tax reforms that shifted... more...
Pricing Nature
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and government policies. This title shows how CBA can be applied to environmental policy choice and environmental resource management. more...
Pandora's Picnic Basket
Oxford University Press, UK 2000; US$ 32.99The first book to look at all the issues involved in GM (genetically modified food) technology in a clear and dispassionate way. Alan McHughen surveys the technology that makes GM food possible, assesses the risk of health and environmental dangers and the regulatory and labelling processes in force to protect the consumer. Question and answer boxes... more...
Environmental Policy, International Trade and Factor Markets
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 103.00Examines the relationship among trade and investment policies, as well as environmental regulations, especially for developing economies. In this book the impacts of pollution taxes and environmental standards on employment and social welfare are examined, and the coordination of optimal trade, investment and environmental policies are analyzed. more...
Emissions Trading and Business
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Emissions trading challenges the management of companies, when it changes the code by which environmental policy steers management decisions from hierarchical to monetary information. But, is this change transmitted and mirrored in management decisions, processes and structures? And, how do they change? This book aims to answer these questions. more...
The Hydrogen Economy
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 15.95The road to global security," writes Jeremy Rifkin, "lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have access to the energy they need to sustain life. Weaning the world off oil and turning it toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world." Rifkin's international bestseller The Hydrogen Economy... more...
Green Economics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization - all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic system. The globalised marketplace is the prevailing force in our lives, undermining the real importance of our human communities and our planet. Green Economics... more...
Science as a Contact Sport
National Geographic Society 2009; US$ 28.00It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? Have... more...
Energy Policies of IEA Countries: United States 2002
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2002; US$ 75.00The Bush Administrations long-awaited 2001 National Energy Policy has important implications for the rest of the world. It gives a new impetus to US action across the energy field. Its significance is analysed in detail in this new report by the International Energy Agency. The US has bowed out of the Kyoto Protocol and plans to pursue its own... more...









