The economics of hydroelectric power

Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. This work addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric power ...

World Development Report 2003

Dynamic development in a sustainable world transformation in the quality of life, growth, and institutions

Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Economy, the World Development Report (WDR) 2003, is the World Bank#s contribution to an ongoing international dialogue on sustainable development. To make the report as useful and comprehensive as possible, the WDR 2003 team sought the views of a ...

Libro verde de los sistemas inteligentes de transporte terrestre

Gestión medioambiental

The ecological economics of biodiversity

methods and policy applications

Estado, comunidades autónomas y corporaciones locales ante la gestión de los residuos urbanos

La gestión de las basuras es uno de los problemas medioambientales más acuciantes que tienen planteados las actuales sociedades occidentales. El presente libro se dedica al análisis de la nueva legislación, estatal y autonómica, sobre residuos urbanos, y al estudio y reflexión sobre los problemas ...

La nuova direttiva sullo scambio di quote di emissione

la prima attuazione europea dei meccanismi previsti dal Protocollo di Kyoto

Bases para la evaluación de la sostenibilidad en proyectos urbanos

Turismo sostenible en áreas protegidas

directrices de planificación y gestión

The handbook of water economics

principles and practice

Water is vital to social and economic development whilst both arable land and water are scarce. Managing water is highly capital intensive, and capital is also scarce. Simultaneously, there are environmental consequences to any intervention in the water cycle whilst the economy depends on the ...

Empirical modeling of the economy and the environment

Eds. Cristoph Böhringer abd Andreas Löscher The papers presented in this volume address a wide range of policy themes in the context of environmental regulation. Investigated issues include the interaction between environmental regulation and economic growth, international competitiveness, structural change, pollution leakage, technological innovation, tax ...

Agenda de educación ambiental 2004

Centro Nacional de Educación Ambiental (CENEAM)

Manual Tipo para la implantación de un sistema de gestión medioambiental en refugios de montaña

COST 341

la fragmentación del hábitat en relación con las infraestructuras de transporte en España

Trade and the environment

theory and evidence

Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in debates over free trade and the environment. And yet the literature on the subject is high on rhetoric and low on results. This book is the first to systematically investigate ...

The planetary bargain

corporate social responsibility matters

Corporate scandals and lack of confidence in our largest institutions mean that corporate social responsibility (CSR) now matters more than ever. Encroaching on CSR are concepts such as corporate sustainability and corporate citizenship, and older concerns with business ethics, business in society and the ethical ...

Filosofías ecofeministas

Medio Ambiente en España 2002

Natural resource and environmental economics

Natural Resource and Environmental Economics is among the leading textbooks in its field. Well written and rigorous in its approach, this third edition follows in the vein of previous editions and continues to provide a comprehensive and clear account of the application of economic analysis ...

Economic theory and global warming

In this book, Professor Uzawa modifies and extends the theoretical premises of orthodox economic theory to those broad enough to be capable of analyzing the phenomena related to environmental disequilibrium, particularly global warming, and of finding institutional arrangements and policy measures that may bring about ...