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Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Landscapes, People and Power
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Author: Robert Fisher, Sally Jeanrenaud, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow, Andrew Ingles, Richard Friend, Rati Mehrotra, Taghi Farvar, Michelle Laurie, Gonzalo Oviedo
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. (October 2008)
Media: Hardcover, 144 pages
Price: $114.39
ISBN-10: 1844076350
ISBN-13: 9781844076352
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High levels of rural poverty in many of the world's ecosystems make it an ethical and practical imperative to find more equitable and realistic ways of achieving conservation. Livelihoods of the rural poor and options for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity are so intimately entwined that they are better addressed through an inte ...
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An Energy Analysis of Household Consumption: Changing Patterns of Direct and Indirect Use in India (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)
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Author: Shonali Pachauri
Publisher: Springer (July 11, 2007)
Media: Hardcover, 211 pages
Price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 1402043015
ISBN-13: 9781402043017
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The book takes a socio-economic approach to analyzing the energy system and energy consumption in India from a household perspective. It views households as the ultimate end-consumers and estimates and analyzes the direct and indirect energy requirements of household consumption, both at an aggregate national level as well as for individuals or group ...
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Protecting Personnel at Hazardous Waste Sites 3E, Third Edition
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Author: William Martin, Michael Gochfeld Ph.D. from CUNY
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (October 18, 1999)
Media: Hardcover, 640 pages
Price: $69.92
ISBN-10: 0750670495
ISBN-13: 9780750670494
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The latest edition of this book brings together a wide range of occupational safety and health recommendations and practices directly applying to hazardous waste site cleanups. In addition to providing the most current information on maximum protection for cleanup personnel, this book is a practical, authoritative guide for those involved in cleanup ...
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The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 (W I D E R Studies in Development Economics)
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Author: Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Goran Maler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 8, 1997)
Media: Hardcover, 288 pages
Price: $44.05
ISBN-10: 0198287674
ISBN-13: 9780198287674
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In these volumes, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development ...
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
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Author: Bjorn Lomborg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 10, 2001)
Media: Paperback, 540 pages
Price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521010683
ISBN-13: 9780521010689
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Bjørn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting worse and worse in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental iss ...
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The Cost of Land Use Decisions: Applying Transaction Cost Economics to Planning and Development (Real Estate Issues)
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Author: Edwin Buitelaar
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (August 17, 2007)
Media: Paperback, 208 pages
Price: $101.55
ISBN-10: 1405151234
ISBN-13: 9781405151238
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By applying transaction cost economics to an evaluation of land use systems, the author here tackles the ongoing debate between market and government in planning. The book provides a fresh angle and a useful contribution to a growing field of study for researchers in urban planning, public administration and land economics. ...
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Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development
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Author: Robert Burchell, Anthony Downs, Sahan Mukherji, Barbara McCann
Publisher: Island Press (June 29, 2005)
Media: Paperback, 224 pages
Price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1559635304
ISBN-13: 9781559635301
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The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs presents a concise and readable sum ...
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Rethinking Infrastructure for Development (Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics)
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Author: Francois Bourguignon, Boris Pleskovic
Publisher: World Bank Publications (October 24, 2007)
Media: Paperback, 285 pages
Price: $11.98
ISBN-10: 0821368419
ISBN-13: 9780821368411
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"ABCDE Tokyo 2007" presents selected papers from the ABCDE Meetings, held May 29-30, 2006, in Tokyo, Japan. Hosted by the World Bank and the Government of Japan, more than 500 experts from countries around the world met to deliberate the theme: Rethinking Infrastructure for Development. This volume presents papers on Infrastructure for Growth: Emergi ...
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Capitalism as if the World Matters
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Author: Jonathon Porritt, Amory B. Lovins
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. (September 2007)
Media: Paperback, 384 pages
Price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1844071936
ISBN-13: 9781844071937
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When first published in 2005, Capitalism as if the World Matters, by one of the leading eco-warriors of our time, shocked both a generation of environmentalists and a generation of business people by brushing aside their petty squabbles and artificial battle lines with a powerful argument that the only way to save the world from fuel shortages ...
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