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Institutions, transaction costs, and environmental policy : institutional reform for water resources

Challen, Ray - 2000

developments in institutional theory are illustrated by using a case study of institutional change in the regulation of water use …

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Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable development : principles and practices with Asian examples

Tisdell, Clement Allan - 1999

This important book highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of sustainable development. It places particular emphasis on biological diversity and examines possible policies for resolving conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of...

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Environmental co-operation and institutional change : theories and policies for European agriculture

Hagedorn, Konrad (ed.) - 2002

Although the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is dominated by a process of centralisation, growing pressures to integrate agri-environmental problems into the CAP have revealed the need to embrace decentralised approaches in an efficient federal structure. Indeed, in recent years...

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Chinese economic development and the environment

Managi, Shunsuke - 2009

Over the past two decades, China has become an economic powerhouse. However, as the world's largest producer of CO2 emissions, the scale and seriousness of China's environmental problems are clearly evident. This pioneering book provides an economic analysis of the significant environmental and...

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Climate change and agriculture : an economic analysis of global impacts, adaptation and distributional effects

Mendelsohn, Robert O.; Dinar, Ariel - 2009

Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides...

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Scarcity, entitlements and the economics of water in developing countries

Anand, P. B. - 2007

Introduction -- Investigating water 'scarcity' -- Access to water supply : achieving the Millennium Development Goal -- Sharing water peacefully : understanding transboundary water-resource conflicts -- An analysis of a river dispute : interaction of politics and economics -- Improving access to...

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Fair principles for sustainable development : essays on environmental policy and developing countries

Dommen, Edward (ed.) - 1993

With the increasingly evident and widespread impact of economic activity on the environment, there is a growing concern in all parts of the world for environmental considerations to be more fully reflected in economic decision-making. The Polluter-Pays, User-Pays and Precautionary principles are...

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Controlling global warming : perspectives from economics, game theory and public choice

Böhringer, Christoph (ed.); Vogt, Carsten (ed.); … - 2002

three different perspectives: game theory, cost-effectiveness analysis and public choice. For each perspective the authors … practical problems which are not yet captured by theory and explore the different applications to the various problems …1. Introduction -- 2. Game theory and international environmental cooperation : any practical application? -- 3 …

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Explorations in environmental and natural resource economics : essays in honor of Gardner M. Brown, Jr

Layton, David, F. (contributor); … - 2006

. Theory and practice of valuation …

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Game theory and international environmental cooperation

Finus, Michael - 2001

international environmental agreement (IEA). Finus shows that by integrating real world restrictions into a model, game theory is a …

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