Download or read book Erschopfbare Ressourcen written by Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften and published by Duncker & Humblot. This book was released on 1980 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ambiguities in Decision oriented Life Cycle Inventories written by Frank Werner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows for the first time how mental models and values influence conclusions in the life cycle inventory step of LCA. One key finding is that different management rules for a sustainable use of materials must be taken into account for the attribution of material and energy flows to a product. Includes case studies on the modelling of recycling and other end-of-life options of aluminium windows and beech wood railway sleepers in LCA.
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011 written by Justin Yifu Lin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABCDE 2011 presents papers from a global gathering of the world?s leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 - June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the Green Economy, Post-crisis Development Strategy, the Political Economy of Fragile States, Measuring Welfare, and Social Programs and Transfers.
Download or read book Environment and Development Economics written by Scott Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems and natural systems. Above all, it concerns the poverty-environment nexus: the complex pathways by which people become or remain poor, and resources become or remain overexploited.
Download or read book Energy Economics A Modern Introduction written by Ferdinand E. Banks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Energy is the go of things", as James Clerk Maxwell pointed out. This th simple truth was largely overlooked during the first 70 years of the 20 century, because in the industrial world most politicians, civil servants, and opinion makers were inclined to believe that virtually an infinite supply of reasonably priced energy would always be available, and so things would continue to 'go' in the manner to which many of their constituents and admirers had become accustomed. Similar opinions were held about fresh air, and water for consumption and agricultural uses. As a result, it was not until the last two decades of the century that serious courses in energy and environmental economics began to be offered at institutions of higher learning around the world. This book is intended as a comprehensive introductory text and/or reference book for courses of this nature having to do with energy economics. (I have also attempted to make the book useful for self study. ) As far as I know, there are no energy economics text or reference books on the level of this book in the English language. Needless to say, if I am wrong then I apologise to their authors; but right or wrong, I would like to see more energy economics books of all descriptions now. We cannot afford to have the same kind of mistakes made with energy policy that (in much of the world) are being made with e. g. employment policy.
Download or read book Creating a Learning Society written by Joseph E. Stiglitz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely a function of the pace at which they close that gap. Thus, to understand how countries grow and develop, it is essential to know how they learn and become more productive and what government can do to promote learning. In Creating a Learning Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald cast light on the significance of this insight for economic theory and policy. Taking as a starting point Kenneth J. Arrow's 1962 paper "Learning by Doing," they explain why the production of knowledge differs from that of other goods and why market economies alone typically do not produce and transmit knowledge efficiently. Closing knowledge gaps and helping laggards learn are central to growth and development. But creating a learning society is equally crucial if we are to sustain improved living standards in advanced countries. Combining accessible prose with technical economic analysis, Stiglitz and Greenwald provide new models of "endogenous growth," up-ending thowhe thinking about both domestic and global policy and trade regimes. They show well-designed government trade and industrial policies can help create a learning society, and how poorly designed intellectual property regimes can retard learning. They also explain how virtually every government policy has effects, both positive and negative, on learning, a fact that policymakers must recognize. They demonstrate why many standard policy prescriptions, especially those associated with "neoliberal" doctrines focusing on static resource allocations, have impeded learning. Among the provocative implications are that free trade may lead to stagnation whereas broad-based industrial protection and exchange rate interventions may bring benefits—not just to the industrial sector, but to the entire economy. The volume concludes with brief commentaries from Philippe Aghion and Michael Woodford, as well as from Nobel Laureates Kenneth J. Arrow and Robert M. Solow.
Download or read book Energy And Economic Theory written by Ferdinand E Banks and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an up-to-date primer covering the most important subjects in energy economics, with particular attention paid to oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy, and without an excessive amount of mathematics. The first three survey chapters constitute an introductory (and mostly non-technical) short course in modern energy economics. Most of the technical analysis is taken up in the following four chapters, while the last chapter is a completely non-technical summation that can be read independent of the rest of the book. Written in a user-friendly tone, it is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and/or graduate students, but most of the book should be accessible to anyone with a serious interest in energy economics.
Download or read book Political Economy Of World Energy The An Introductory Textbook written by Ferdinand E Banks and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-read book presents an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to modern energy economics. Mathematical content is kept to a minimum, and advanced numerical concepts are placed in appendices. The two survey chapters are suitable for readers with little or no formal training in economics. Differing greatly from other energy textbooks, the book aims to provide the reader with an informed advantage. Principally intended as a textbook for undergraduate economics students, it can also be used for self-study or as a reference material.
Download or read book Resources and Energy written by Ferdinand E. Banks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental and Natural Resource Economics written by Thomas H. Tietenberg and published by Pearson Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the trend toward a more international focus, Tietenbergs Fifth Edition increases attention paid to environmental problems and policies in Europe, China, and developing nations.
Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings Received written by British Library. Lending Division and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011 written by Justin Yifu Lin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011: Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World (ABCDE) presents papers from a global gathering of the world’s leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 - June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the Green Economy, Post-crisis Development Strategy, the Political Economy of Fragile States, Measuring Welfare, and Social Programs and Transfers. Keynote addresses: Elinor Ostrom: Overcoming the Samaritan's Dlimemma in Development Aid -- Torsten Persson: Weak States, Strong States, and Development -- Joseph Stiglitz: Learning, Growth, and Development -- Partha Dasgupta: Poverty Traps --
Download or read book Essays in Some Topics of Modern Economic Theory written by Kazuo Shimomura and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of the State in Financial Markets written by Joseph E. Stiglitz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Workshop on Coastal Area Development and Management in Asia and the Pacific written by Mark J. Valencia and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Exhaustible Resources written by Murray C. Kemp and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1984 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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