environmental economics Books and Publications

Environmental Economics for Watershed Restoration

Whether addressing pollution problems or helping protect a specific use, watershed associations are finding that the competition for funds is getting harder. While we can grasp the value of our streams for fishing or kayaking and other services, or their cultural value, or their value to an ecosystem, putting a dollar value on those benefits is not an easy task, but it is sometimes a necessary ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Topics in Environmental Economics

Topics in Environmental Economics brings together in one volume a selection of research reports on five priority areas of environmental economics: policy instruments, cost-benefit analysis, cost efficiency, contingent valuation, and experimental economics. The contributions are written by a select ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Economics & the Mining Industry

This book examines the impact of environmental concerns and their related legislation on the mining industry. Specifically, the book focuses on two important issues facing the mining industry - Superfund liability and global warming. The first issue has a tremendous impact on the sale of properties, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Applied Research in Environmental Economics

Sustainable development, climate policy, and biodiversity conservation are examples of issues on the current political agenda in many countries. These themes are also subject to economic research, and economic insights are increasingly finding their way into the design of environmental policy. Still, the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Economics and the International Economy

Thirteen papers addressing current issues in international environmental economics. They analyze the relationship between trade liberalization and environmental policy; the impact of trade liberalization on environmental quality; investigate problems of commitment faced by regulating authorities; provide new ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

An Economic, Technical And Environmental Feasibility Study for Slurry Injection for Biosolids Management In the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex

In Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), sewage is treated with a combination of anaerobic digestion, effluent filtration and lime stabilization to create biosolids which are then composted, landfilled, or land applied. The current treatment procedure has certain concerns including emissions or accumulation of odors, pathogens, nutrients, metals, and pharmaceutical ...

By The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management

Economics for Environmental Professionals

Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them. Because they come mainly from the environmental and science disciplines, most environmental professionals have limited training in the fundamentals of ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Selecting Sustainable Technologies for Municipal Solid Waste Treatment and Disposal: An Expert Based Mcdm Approach

Selection of appropriate municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment and disposal technology is a complex multi-criteria process. This paper demonstrates the reliability of the use of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework for the purpose of selecting the best MSW treatment and disposal alternatives. In this paper, a modified fuzzy Delphi-AHP-TOPSIS methodology is developed for the selection ...

By The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management

Climate Change 2007 - Mitigation of Climate Change

The Climate Change 2007 volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment of climate change available. This IPCC Working Group III volume is a state-of-the-art assessment of the scientific, technical, ...

By Cambridge University

Business and Biodiversity: A Handbook for Corporate Action

The handbook provides information on the business case for biodiversity, as well as current biodiversity issues for business, corporate biodiversity strategies and key biodiversity resources. This report argues that biodiversity can be associated with good environmental, economic, and social ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Business & Biodiversity: The Handbook for Corporate Action (With CD Rom)

The handbook provides information on the business case for biodiversity, as well as current biodiversity issues for business, corporate biodiversity strategies and key biodiversity resources. This report argues that biodiversity can be associated with good environmental, economic, and social ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in Lebanon

This study determines the environmental impacts of Lebanon"s trade in greenhouse agricultural products using methyl bromide and assesses the potential impacts ( environmental, economic, health and social ) that would result from phasing ...

By Earthprint Ltd

World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Our challenge is to think globally and develop policies to counteract environmental decline and economic collapse. The question is: Can we change direction before we go over the edge? Lester Brown looks at our economic future ...

By Earth Policy Institute

Sustainable Assessment Method for Energy Systems

Sustainable Assessment Method for Energy Systems provides the reader with a new method for energy system evaluation. It is widely recognized that future energy strategies will have to deal with energy as a complex issue that incorporates environmental, economic, social, cultural, educational, and material ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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Corrosion and Fouling Control in Desalination Industry.

Addresses the corrosion issues facing the conventional and modern water desalination systems. This book addresses two critical problems that plague materials that make up components in both desalination and cooling water systems: corrosion, and fouling. The book addresses various types and components of industrial desalination technologies with solutions for controlling corrosion, scaling and ...

By H2O Biofouling Solutions B.V.

A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making

This book integrates decision-making and environmental science. For ecologists it will bridge the gap to economics. For practitioners in environmental economics and management it will be a major reference book. It probably contains the largest collection available of expressions and basic equations that are ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Economics of Environmental Law

The economic approach to environmental law and policy has become the dominant framework for analyzing pollution, resource management and many other environmental challenges throughout the world. This two-volume set presents essential articles from both the leading edge of methodological innovation in environmental ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics

of sustainable development. It compiles innovative current research from resource, energy and environmental ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Challenging preconceptions about trade in sustainable products. Towards win-win-win for developing countries

Sustainable products (ie, products that provide greater positive or lower negative social, environmental and economic impacts along the value chain than conventional products) have the potential to contribute to sustainable development in developing countries. But at present there are many factors impeding the ...

By Earthprint Ltd

M60 Drought Preparedness and Response, Second Edition

Providing a reliable supply of water requires being prepared for water shortages of varying degree and duration, and preparing for drought and water shortages before they occur is the best defense. A Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) enables a water supplier to assess the risks and reduce the vulnerability of a community to drought impacts and establishes priorities that will provide water ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

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