Environment

Moving Towards the Virtual Workplace

Viviane IIIegems, Alain Verbeke

Moving Towards the Virtual Workplace provides the first comprehensive overview of the many impacts of telework/telecommuting adoption, from both a managerial and societal perspective. This book argues that telework will be increasingly a...

Hardback (January 2004)

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Climate Change in the Mediterranean

Edited by Carlo Giupponi, Mordechai Shechter

The book begins with a broad global overview of the probable economic and social consequences of climate change. The authors then focus on the issue of water resources and assess a range of potential problems such as increasing droughts,...

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Tourism and Development in Tropical Islands

Edited by Stefan Gössling

Tropical islands are fragile, vulnerable environments and yet they are coming under increasing strain due to coastal developments and global environmental change. As a result of their remote location, small size and limited natural resou...

Hardback (December 2003)

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Global Warming and the Asian Pacific

Edited by Ching-Cheng Chang, Robert Mendelsohn, Daigee Shaw

This unique book examines the problem of global warming from the perspective of Asian Pacific countries. The unprecedented economic and demographic growth over the past two decades has increased the importance of the Asian Pacific region...

Hardback (December 2003)

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Environment in the New Global Economy

Edited by Peter M. Haas

International environmental threats have commanded widespread attention since the late 1960s. A number of unprecedented environmental disasters have galvanized public concern, and have reached the international political agenda in part t...

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Land Quality, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security

Edited by Keith Wiebe

The contributors to this book – including soil scientists, geographers, and economists – analyse data on soils, climate, land cover, agricultural inputs and outputs, and a variety of socio-economic factors to provide new insights into th...

Hardback (December 2003)

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Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative

Edited by Claes Brundenius

Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative considers the extent of the success of polluting industries in becoming cost-efficient whilst acquiring less polluting technologies, in the face of fierce competition. The authors als...

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The Environmentalism of the Poor

Joan Martínez-Alier

The Environmentalism of the Poor has the explicit intention of helping to establish two emerging fields of study – political ecology and ecological economics – whilst also investigating the relations between them.

Paperback (2003)

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Hardback (2002)

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The Economics of Hydroelectric Power

Brian K. Edwards

Brian Edwards provides an in-depth analysis of how dams are used in water management, flood control and irrigation, as well as the environmental impacts of their construction and operation. He examines the types of restrictions imposed o...

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Recent Developments in Transport Economics

Edited by Kenneth Button

The past decade has seen both some new trends in the economics of transportation and the reinforcement of work from previous periods. Econometrics and innovative programming techniques have developed the work on production efficiency and...

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Hardback (September 2003)

New Dimensions in Ecological Economics

Edited by Stephen Dovers, David I. Stern, Michael D. Young

Drawing on the biophysical sciences, public policy, geography, economics, exploratory research and the behavioural sciences, this book offers reviews and prescriptions for the future of ecological economics, placing particular emphasis o...

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