Екология и икономика на околната среда
Mainstreaming the Environment
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Издател: The World Bank
This book documents how the World Bank Group has sought to be an active partner in implementing the concept of sustainable dvelopment at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. This includes an analysis of the Bank's growing loan portfolio of environmental projects.
Man and Nature
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Издател: The Foundation for Economic Education
This book aims to prove that economic prosperity does not conflict with healthy environment. On the contrary, a prosperous economy and a healthy environment are two sides of the same coin. As only free economy can be a prosperous economy, only a free economy assures a healthy environment.
Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance
Paul Freeman , Howard Kunreuther
Издател: AEI Press
The book analyzes the role of insurance in managing environmental risk. It begins by contrasting insurance with sociatal tools for addressing risk: government benefit programs and imposition of involuntary liability using the court system. In so doing, the book describes the comparative advantages of insurance.
Oil Supply Security
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Издател: OECD/IEA
Beginning with a brief overview and focusing on individual countries, this publication presents the findings of the most recent cycle of emergency response reviews. It constitutes a basic work of reference on IEA emergency response potential and policy.
Out of Bounds Out of Control
James V. DeLong
Издател: Cato Institute
Author James V. DeLong, a lawyer by training, understands the primary importance to society of following the rule of law. In Out of Bounds, Out of Control, he describes the sources and the vast extent of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) growing importance in the United States. He also highlights and details the EPA’s emphasis on
Polluted Science
Michael Fumento
Издател: The AEI Press
Polluted Science is a critical study of the EPA’s decision in 1997 to tighten national standards for measuring air quality. Michael Fumento examines the standards used by the EPA and the benefits the EPA hoped to reap by their utlilization.
Pricing for Pollution
Wilfred Beckerman
Издател: Institute of Economic Affairs
"Pricing for Pollution is fast approaching the status of a classic. When published in 1975 it set out in cogent and lucid terms the case for “charging” for pollution as a means of environmental regulation. Dr Beckerman had then argued the case as a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. His approach to the control of the
Product-Risk Labelling
W.Kip Viscusi
Издател: The AEI Press
This book examines state regulation for hazard warnings - for foods, for drugs, and for medical devices - and demonstrates why a federal warnings approach would be preferable. Conducted at the national level, product-risk labelling could adopt a standardized warnings vocabulary and avoid the fragmentation of national markets that could be so
Property Rights and the Enviroment
Susan Hanna , Mohan Munasinghe
Издател: The World Bank
The book examines the relationships between people, the environment, and property rights and the ways in which a given social and ecological context affects those relationships. The papers are products of a research program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. The main objective of the program was to convene social scientists and
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