Екология и икономика на околната среда

Adapt or Die Adapt or Die

Kendra Okonski

Издател: Profile Business

Adapt or Die is an essential introduction to the urgent international debate on climate change. It argues that the earth's climate is not in fact changing disastrously, and that policies being pursued to prevent climate change will have negative consequences for consumers, taxpayers, and the poor. Thirteen expert authors argue that: The earth's

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Biodiversity Prospecting: Using Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development Biodiversity Prospecting: Using Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development

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Издател: World Resources Institute

The authors describe the organizations, contracts, and laws needed to ensure that both human communities and their natural surroundings benefit from the bioprospecting boom.

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Bountiful Harvest Bountiful Harvest

Thomas DeGregori

Издател: Cato Institute

Millions of lives have been saved from malaria and typhus-two of the world's greatest killer-by DDT, a chemical that anti-technology groups in the United States managed to get banned. Yet these same groups oppose regulation of products with proven toxicity-for example, organic foods and alternative medicines-but this contradiction does not seem to

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Carrots, Sticks and Climate Change Carrots, Sticks and Climate Change

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Издател: The Sustainable Development Network

Policymakers are being pressured to address the threat of climate change. Most of the focus so far has been on "sticks", in the form of government restictions on greenhouse gas emissions. This book argues that "carrots" are a more humane and cost-effective way for policymakers to address climate-sensitive problems. Like it or not, we live in a

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Clearing the Air Clearing the Air

Becky Dunlop

Издател: Аlexis de Tocqueville Institution

"Clearing the Air" documents Dunlop's tenure as Secretary of Natural Resources for the state of Virginia. For four years, Becky Norton Dunlop worked to improve air and water quality in her state and others while battling Carol Browner, Vice President Albert Gore, and the Environmental Protection Agency.Dunlop not only succeeded in making the

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Climate Change Policy Climate Change Policy

Colin Robinson

Издател: IEA

There is currently a consensus amongst the political establishment -- and amongst the intellectual communities that feed into it -- that detailed and wide-ranging government intervention is necessary to combat the effects of climate change. This monograph challenges that consensus. The authors look in detail at a number of the underlying,

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Climate Coup Climate Coup

Patrick J. Michaels

Издател: Cato Institute

Global warming alarmism is invading nearly every aspect of our society. Despite convincing evidence that climate change does not portend an apocalyptic future, children are inundated with that idea in schools. Poor countries shake down rich ones in the name of climate "justice." Lawmakers try to impose tariffs and sanctions on nations that don't

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Common Sense and Common Law for the Еnvironment Common Sense and Common Law for the Еnvironment

Bruce Yandle

Издател: Rowman & littlefield

In this provocative new book, Bruce Yandle explores the relationship between common law and environmental protection, and he discusses how people can limit environmental impact while living in a world of common access. Yandle examines today's most pressing environmental and natural resource management problems, including water quality, the ozone

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Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Thomas C. Schelling

Издател: The AEI Press

Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction is one in a series of new AEI studies related to the globalization of environmental policy. These studies will focus on specific issues, such as global climate change, and on the new international arrangements required to deal with them.

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Das Recht auf Umweltinformation Das Recht auf Umweltinformation

Maria Rauch-Kallat

Издател: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Jugent und Familie

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