Environmental Policy, Politics and Economics
Capitalizing on Nature
Ecosystems as Natural Assets
Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming
336 pages
49 b/w illus. 13 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.54kg
978-0-521-18927-9 Paperback £19.99
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Who Speaks for the Climate?
Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change
Maxwell T. Boykoff, University of Colorado, Boulder
The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues – from news to entertainment – are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors.
240 pages
13 b/w illus.
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.39kg
978-0-521-13305-0 Paperback £17.99
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Ending Dirty Energy Policy
Prelude to Climate Change
Joseph P. Tomain, University of Cincinnati, College of Law, Ohio
Climate change presents the United States, and the world, with regulatory problems of a magnitude, complexity and scope unseen before. The United States, however, particularly after the mid-term elections of 2010, lacks the political will necessary to aggressively address climate change. Most current books focus on climate change.
320 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.44kg
978-0-521-12785-1 Paperback £19.99
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Climate Policy after Copenhagen
The Role of Carbon Pricing
Karsten Neuhoff, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - DIW Berlin
At the UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, 117 heads of state concluded that low-carbon development is necessary in order to combat climate change. However, they also understood that transition to a low-carbon economy requires the implementation of a portfolio of policies and programs - a challenging endeavour for any nation.
296 pages
47 b/w illus. 5 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mmbr
Weight: 0.47kg
978-1-107-40141-9 Paperback £21.99
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Migration and Climate Change
Edited by: Étienne Piguet, Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland
Edited by: Antoine Pécoud, UNESCO
Edited by: Paul de Guchteneire, UNESCO
Migration and Climate Change provides the first authoritative overview of the relationship between climate change and migration. It brings together both case studies and syntheses from different parts of the world and critically discusses empirical evidence, methodological challenges, conceptual gaps, policy responses, and normative issues.
464 pages
11 b/w illus. 11 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.73kg
978-1-107-66225-4 Paperback £19.99
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Economic Choices in a Warming World
Christian de Perthuis, University Paris-Dauphine; Chaire Economie du Climat, Caisse des Dépôts, France Translated by: Michael Westlake
Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't take into account the policies that have already been implemented.
260 pages
1 b/w illus. 1 table
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.41kg
978-0-521-17568-5 Paperback £16.99
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Global Warming Gridlock
Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet
David G. Victor, University of California, San Diego
Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home.
392 pages
15 b/w illus. 3 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.75kg
978-0-521-86501-2 Hardback £25.00
Risk and Precaution
Alan Randall, Ohio State University
The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well-specified games of chance. How then are we to manage the risks, uncertainties, and 'unknown unknowns' of the real world? In this book, Alan Randall unravels the key controversies surrounding the precautionary principle and develops a new framework that can be taken seriously in policy and management circles.
278 pages
12 b/w illus. 6 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.55kg
978-0-521-75919-9 Paperback £18.99
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Environmental Economics
Theory and Policy
Alfred Endres, University of Hagen, Germany
Translated by: Iain L. Fraser
This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year. It intentionally does not survey the whole field or present every possible topic. Instead, there is a clear focus on the theory of environmental policy and its practical applications. Most of the applied parts of the book deal with the economics of environmental policy in the European Union and in the United States.
400 pages
55 b/w illus. 4 tables
Dimensions: 253 x 215 mm
Weight: 0.69kg
978-0-521-17392-6 Paperback £38.00
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U.S. Energy Tax Policy
Edited by: Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University, Massachusetts
The United States face enormous challenges in the energy area. Climate change, biofuels policy, energy security and environmental degradation are all intimately bound up with energy production and consumption. Historically, the federal government has relied on tax subsidies to effect energy policy. With mounting federal deficits, policymakers and advocates are increasingly calling for a rethinking of our energy tax policy.
414 pages
56 b/w illus. 1 map 42 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.69kg
978-0-521-19668-0 Hardback £65.00
Smart Solutions to Climate Change
Comparing Costs and Benefits
Edited by: Bjørn Lomborg, Copenhagen Business School
The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policy makers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and 'black carbon', expanding forest, research and development of low-carbon energy and encouraging green technology transfer.
436 pages
87 b/w illus. 102 tables
Dimensions: 247 x 174 mm
Weight: 0.85kg
978-0-521-13856-7 Paperback £20.99
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Environmental Politics
Scale and Power
Shannon O'Lear, University of Kansa
Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them.
238 pages
19 b/w illus. 3 maps 7 tables
Dimensions: 247 x 174 mm
Weight: 0.48kg
978-0-521-75913-7 Paperback £26.99
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Resource Economics
2nd EditionJon M. Conrad, Cornell University, New York
Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation problems (Chapter 2), and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, and stock pollutants (Chapters 3–6). Chapter 7 examines the maximin utility criterion when the utility of a generation depends on consumption of a manufactured good, harvest from a renewable resource, and extraction from a nonrenewable resource.
300 pages
31 b/w illus. 1 map 49 tables 20 exercises
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.41kg
978-0-521-69767-5 Paperback £20.99
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Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security
Edited by: Karen O'Brien, Universitetet i Oslo
Edited by: Asunción Lera St. Clair, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
Edited by: Berit Kristoffersen, Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway
Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations.
246 pages
4 b/w illus. 5 tables
Dimensions: 247 x 174 mm
Weight: 0.64kg
978-0-521-19766-3 Hardback £70.00
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Burton Richter
Stanford University, California
Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s assessment of options for switching to sustainable energy provision to avert potentially disastrous consequences of climate change.
2010 228 x 152 mm 256pp 38 b/w illus. 22 tables
978-0-521-74781-3 Paperback c. £ 19.99
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A Global Green New Deal
Rethinking the Economic Recovery
Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming
Meeting the short run challenges of reviving the worldwide economy need not mean sacrificing long run economic and environmental sustainability. A Global Green New Deal (GGND) is an economic policy strategy for ensuring a more economically and environmentally sustainable world economic recovery.
322 pages
13 b/w illus. 23 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.32kg
978-0-521-13202-2 Paperback £17.99
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Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012
Frank Bierman
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Philipp Pattberg
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Fariborz Zelli
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
Provides a cutting-edge assessment of policy options for future global climate governance.
Written by an international team of thirty leading experts to give an overview of the global mechanisms to support adaptation to climate change.
2010 247 x 174mm 348pp
978-0-521-19011-4 Hardback c. £ 60.00
Pricing Carbon
The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
A. Denny Ellerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frank J. Convery, University College Dublin
Christian de Perthuis, Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine)
390 pages
38 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.75kg
The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trading schemes in the US, Japan, and elsewhere.
978-0-521-13202-2 Paperback £
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Controlling Climate Change
Bert Metz
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Presents a cutting edge overview of tackling and adapting to climate change, written by a lead member of the IPCC.
2009 246 x 189 mm 352pp 167 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 44 tables
978-0-521-74784-4 Paperback c. £ 29.99
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Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy
Implementing Architectures for Agreement
Edited by: Joseph E. Aldy, Resources for the Future
Edited by: Robert N. Stavins, Harvard University, Massachusetts
The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is a global, multi-disciplinary effort intended to help identify the key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for addressing the threat of climate change. It has commissioned leading scholars to examine a uniquely wide range of core issues that must be addressed if the world is to reach an effective agreement on a successor regime to the Kyoto Protocol.
1022 pages
73 b/w illus. 51 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 1.58kg
978-0-521-12952-7 Paperback £42.00
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Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change
C. Gregory Knight
Pennsylvania State University
Jill Jager
Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Vienna
Provides state-of-the-art descriptions of methodological challenges, allowing the reader to learn new techniques for such assessments.
‘This excellent volume provides a sound and authoritative basis for the development of the next generation of integrated studies in global environmental change. It will be a particularly valuable resource for researchers in this field.’ Hassan Virji, Director, START, The Global Change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training, Washington DC
2009 247 x 174mm 426pp
978-0-521-51810-9 Hardback c. £ 70.00
Pricing Carbon
The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
A. Denny Ellerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frank J. Convery, University College Dublin
Christian de Perthuis, Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine)
The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trading schemes in the US, Japan, and elsewhere.
390 pages
38 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.75kg
978-0-521-19647-5 Hardback £37.00
Making Climate Change Work for Us
Mike Hulme
University of East Anglia
Henry Neufeldt
University of East Anglia
Provides an introduction to important and yet unpublished research without being technically demanding.
Allows readers to understand the challenges of adaptation alongside those of mitigation, illustrated with regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation inter-link.
2010 247 x 174 mm 446pp
978-0-521-11941-2 Hardback c. £ 60.00
Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet
Brent Yarnal
Pennsylvania State University
Colin Polsky
Clark University, Massachusetts
James O'Brien
Kingston University, London
Blends global change science and geographic information science, enabling the reader to see how these two fields can work together seamlessly.
Provides detailed case studies of four regions, highlighting the diverse impacts of global change on different localities.
2009 247 x 174mm 348pp
978-0-521-89569-9 Hardback c. £ 70.00
Governance for the Environment
New Perspectives
Edited by Magali A. Delmas
University of California, Los Angeles
and Oran R. Young
University of California, Santa Barbara
Leading scholars from economics, management studies, and political science suggest effective environmental policies to mitigate human impact on the environment.
2009 228 x 152 mm 300pp 4 tables
978-0-521-74300-6 Paperback £ 18.99
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Global Crises, Global Solutions
Costs and Benefits
Second edition
Edited by Bjørn Lomborg
Copenhagen Business School
Leading economists, including five Nobel laureates, evaluate how the world can best spend money to combat the world’s biggest problems.
"the definitive scientific book on global warming by one of the few authors who is actually in a position to give a 'complete briefing." David Lorimer, Director, Scientific and Medical Network
2009 247 x 174 mm 710pp 2 b/w illus. 148 tables
978-0-521-74122-4 Paperback £ 21.99
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Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy
Implementing Architectures for Agreement
Edited by Joseph E. Aldy
Resources for the Future
and Robert N. Stavins
Harvard University, Massachusetts
The most authoritative analysis of the full range of options open for a world climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
"Addressing climate change is the defining challenge of our age. If we are to rise to this challenge, an ambitious and comprehensive global agreement must be reached urgently. This book provides an informative and timely analysis of the design options for such a global agreement and its subsequent implementation and will be an essential reference book to inform policy makers in their efforts to develop an architecture which is based on science, economically rational, and politically feasible.". Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for Environment, European Commission
2009 228 x 152 mm 912pp 73 b/w illus. 51 tables
978-0-521-13785-0 c. £ 75.00
978-0-521-12952-7 c. £ 40.00
Climate Change Policy in the European Union
Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?
Andrew Jordan
University of East Anglia
Dave Huitema
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Harro van Asselt
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Explores the emergence of climate policy in the EU and identifies the key governance choices that informed the design of its climate policies.
This book is a must read for students and practitioners wishing to understand EU climate policy.’ Miranda Schreurs, Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universitat Berlin
2010 247 x 174mm 304pp
978-0-521-196-1 Hardback c. £ 60.00
Sustainable Natural Resource Management
For Scientists and Engineers
Daniel R. Lynch, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Natural resources support all human productivity. The sustainable management of natural resources is among the preeminent problems of the current century. Sustainability and the implied professional responsibility start here. This book uses applied mathematics familiar to undergraduate engineers and scientists to examine natural resource management and its role in framing sustainability. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are covered, along with living and sterile resources.
248 pages
108 b/w illus. 14 tables 151 exercises
Dimensions: 253 x 215 mm
Weight: 0.66kg
978-0-521-89972-7 Hardback £40.00
Economic Theory and Global Warming
Hirofumi Uzawa, University of Tokyo
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 a more optimal state where natural and institutional components are harmoniously blended.
292 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.48kg
978-0-521-06659-4 Paperback £18.99
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Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia
Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to explain why we disagree about climate change.
432 pages
2 b/w illus. 1 table
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.68kg
978-0-521-72732-7 Paperback £17.99
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Governing Sustainability
Edited by W. Neil Adger
University of East Anglia
and Andrew Jordan
University of East Anglia
Examines the inevitable social and political consequences that will arise from the move to a more sustainable world.
2009 228 x 152 mm 356pp 7 tables
978-0-521-73243-7 Paperback £ 17.99
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The Environment and International Relations
Kate O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley
This exciting new textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of International Relations can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, and identifies the main actors and their roles, allowing students to grasp the core theories and facts about global environmental governance.
264 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.43kg
978-0-521-60312-6 Paperback £19.99
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Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe
The Impact of International Institutions and Trade
Edited by Katharina Holzinger
Universität Konstanz, Germany
Christoph Knill
Universität Konstanz, Germany
and Bas Arts
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Examines the impact of economic globalisation and international institutions on the development of national environmental policies.
2008 228 x 152 mm 288pp 3 b/w illus. 31 tables
978-0-521-70916-3 Paperback £ 24.99
Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Rights, Rents and Fairness
Edited by A. Denny Ellerman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara K. Buchner
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
and Carlo Carraro
Università degli Studi di Venezia and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
The first in-depth description and analysis of the European Emissions Trading Scheme.
2007 228 x 152 mm 442pp 37 b/w illus. 27 tables
978-0-521-87568-4 Hardback £ 63.00
Sustainable Fossil Fuels
The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy
Mark Jaccard
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Controversially argues that fossil fuels will play a key role in a sustainable energy system.
2006 228 x 152 mm 398pp 9 tables
978-0-521-67979-4 Paperback £ 16.99
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Markets for Clean Air
The U.S. Acid Rain Program
A. Denny Ellerman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul L. Joskow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Schmalensee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan-Pablo Montero
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
and Elizabeth M. Bailey
Comprehensive description and evaluation of the first three years’ of the U.S. Acid Rain Program.
2000 228 x 152 mm 388pp 43 b/w illus. 59 tables
978-0-521-66083-9 Hardback £ 60.00
The Human Right to a Viable Environment
Sangini T. Ramnewash-Oemrawsingh, The Netherlands Council of State
Human rights tribunals are regularly confronted with complaints regarding human rights violations caused by environmental degradation. This book deals with the effectiveness of incorporating environmental dimensions into existing human rights and analyses the feasibility of a separate enforceable human right relating to the environment. Including chapters on the relevant case law of several regional human rights systems, such as the European Convention on Human Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights and global human rights systems, such as the UN International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, it demonstrates that incorporating environmental aspects within existing human rights is problematic and recommends the insertion of a right to a viable environment in all human rights systems.
Dimensions: 245 x 175 mm
978-9-067-04322-9 Hardback c. £85.00