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Technological Transitions and System Innovations
Frank W. Geels
This important book addresses how long term and large scale shifts from one socio-technical system to another come about, using insights from evolutionary economics, sociology of technology and innovation studies. These major changes inv...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Technology Diffusion and Energy Efficiency
Peter Mulder
Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a ... -
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Econometrics Informing Natural Resources Management
Edited by Phoebe Koundouri
This fascinating book outlines the fundamental principles and difficulties that characterise the challenging task of using econometrics to inform natural resource management policies, and illustrates them through a number of case studies...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Modelling the Costs of Environmental Policy
Rob B. Dellink
This important new book enhances our understanding of the dynamic interactions between economic activity, economic growth, pollution abatement and environmental policy. It addresses one main policy problem: how can the direct and indirec...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Ecological Economics of Consumption
Edited by Lucia A. Reisch, Inge Røpke
Research on consumption from an environmental perspective has exploded since the late 1990s. This important new volume cuts across disciplines to present the latest research in the field.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Instruments for Water Management
Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Alban Thomas, Lilian Saade Hazin, Jose Gustavo Feres, Céline Nauges, Antonio Saade Hazin
This book argues that the economic appeal of using water charges to promote efficiency in usage and pollution control can be constrained by institutional and operational problems. Analysing the cases of France, Mexico and Brazil, the aut...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Modelling in Ecological Economics
Edited by John Proops, Paul Safonov
This book focuses on modelling in ecological economics and offers a comprehensive overview of current and emerging methods of applying mathematical, computational and conceptual methods to environmental issues.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability
Edited by Boelie Elzen, Frank W. Geels, Ken Green
This book considers two main questions: how do system innovations or transitions come about and how can they be influenced by different actors, in particular by governments. The authors identify the theories which can be used to conceptu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Achieving a Sustainable Global Energy System
Leo Schrattenholzer, Asami Miketa, Keywan Riahi, Richard Alexander Roehrl
Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustaina...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO
Edited by Giovanni Anania, Mary E.. Bohman, Colin A. Carter, Alex F. McCalla
Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on agricultural policy and global markets, and considers what is at stake in the Doha Development Agenda Round. -
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Welfare Measurement in Imperfect Markets
Thomas Aronsson, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, Kenneth Backlund
This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Location, Travel and Information Technology
Peter Nijkamp
This important book collects together Peter Nijkamp’s work on spatial-economic markets, particularly housing and labour markets, and the increasing impact of information technology on mobility and the location of firms, residents and job...