Business & Economics : Environmental Economics

'The Cost of Being Landlocked' proposes a new analytical framework to interpret and model the constraints faced by logistics chains on international trade co......

A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems, yet for solutions we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists......

Mr. Johnson's thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering a......

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former membe......

The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and political......

With increasing greenhouse gas emissions, we are embarked on an unprecedented experiment with an uncertain outcome for the future of the planet. The Kyoto Pr......

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 ......

Drawing upon recent analytical work prepared inside and outside the World Bank, this report identifies key lessons concerning the linkages between poverty an......

'Global Monitoring Report 2008', the fifth in an annual series, is essential reading for those who wish to follow the global development agenda and debate in......

A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis,......

Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reductio......

In 2004 the Indonesian government made a commitment to provide its entire population with health insurance coverage through a mandatory public health insuran......

Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and na......

This paper provides an overview of remittances and migration between Honduras and the United States and analyzes the remittance regulatory and market environ......

Making responsible social and environmental choices has not always been a first priority for many corporations, but recent history has changed all that. Smal......

A new edition of this two hundred thousand-copy bestseller. Author: Thorne Amann, Jennifer Author: Wilson, Alex Publisher: New Society Publishers Illustrati......

Blackout goes to the heart of the tough energy questions that will dominate every sphere of public policy throughout the first half of this century, and it i......

Aluminum Recycling A Self Paced Research Workbook is a reference for finding facts on uses for recycling aluminum. Crafts, building materials and more can be......

In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership and control o......