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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... -
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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]()
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... -
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative]()
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.eBook:Find out more$59.96
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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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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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The Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries
Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Panos Pashardes, Timothy M. Swanson, Anastasios Xepapadeas
The increasing scarcity of water resources (in terms of quantity and quality) is one of the most pervasive natural resource allocation issues facing development planners throughout the world. This problem is especially prevalent in less ...
