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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...
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...
Radioactive Waste
Routledge 1991; US$ 74.00This analysis of nuclear strategy, the politics of nuclear power and the shifting emphasis of government regulation redefines the issue of radwaste management and sets it at the centre of the current debate about the environment. more...
Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 44.95The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of... more...
Water and Gender
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2008; US$ 110.00Already an estimated one billion people are short of safe water supplies for drinking and basic life needs and it is foreshadowed that lack of access to clean reliable freshwater will be the world's greatest threat in the 21st century. In many cultures men and women are affected differently by these challenges, so gender ought to be explicit in designing... 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...
The Complex Forest
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 54.95The Complex Forest systematically examines the theory, processes, and early outcomes of a research and management approach called adaptive collaborative management (ACM). An alternative to positivist approaches to development and conservation that assume predictability in forest management, ACM acknowledges the complexity and unpredictability inherent... more...
The Plundered Planet
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 15.99Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. The Economist wrote that it was "set to become a classic," the Financial Times praised it as "rich in both analysis and recommendations,"... more...
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 40.00Second edition of an acclaimed book provides up-to-date, integrated overview of climate change issue - science, technology, economics, policy, and politics. more...
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...









