Material Flow Management: Improving Cost Efficiency and Environmental Performance (Sustainability and Innovation)

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The implementation of material flow management offers enterprises a high potential for realizing new economic competitive advantages. The eco-efficient optimization of material flows aims at reducing costs while simultaneously achieving long-term sustainability with regard to ecological and societal aspects. Knowledge of existing methods and the latest trends is a key prerequisite for successfully implementing, refining and disseminating material flow management approaches. This book summarises the fundamental concepts and tools of material flow management and presents the newest methods and findings. Case studies illustrate the results from recent research projects conducted in cooperation with industrial companies. The book thereby provides an up-to-date overview of the subject of material flow management for science and practice.

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Modern logistics - an executive summary

Excellent Advanced SCM Book - Repost

Easy to read, theorethically strong and practical enough

I Need It Yesterday

Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service, Second Edition
Martin Christopher
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Logistics management is increasingly being seen as a source of competitive strength. Its effective use provides potential for cost reduction and the opportunity for increasing market share. The second edition discusses the role of logistics in achieving corporate and financial goals. Updated and expanded with more checklists, more short cases and executive summaries, this is an invaluable guide for all logistics and distribution managers.

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Boring book.......2007-06-10

Keeps repeating the same things over and over using different words. Very boring and nothing new to learn.

Modern logistics - an executive summary.......2007-02-08

After reading various textbooks on logistics, quantitative analysis and strategy, this book was very refreshing, in large part from the fact that it is a short and non-technical book. The title of my review says it all, this book is summary for busy people wanting to get som insights into what is going on in logistics and organizational theory . I got through the book in two readings, which is a very valuable aspect for busy people.
Still, despite being brief, it touches on most important aspects, and points you to further areas of importance if what you read here makes you want to change things in your organization.
So: Not technical, easy read, 4 stars instead of 5 because it is too brief to be truly useful for those that actually want to learn the subject-matter.

PS: The printing I recieved was a defect, pages 247 to 278 missing (Replaced by duplicate pages 215-246), ust watch out for that.

Excellent Advanced SCM Book - Repost.......2007-01-05

This is a wonderful book and introduces the practioner to some of the frontiers of strategically driven service response logistics. In other words how to design, deploy and organize integrated SCM for corporate strategic reasons, not just for functional cost control. Probably one of three key books for understanding the frontiers and highly recommended.

Key is the process, customer value and system integration perspectives threaded throughout but particularly in the last several chapters. The chaper on service response logistics is worth the price of the book.

As a practioner dealing with advanced SCM I found this very worthwhile and found myself wishing I'd written it. If you are relatively new to the field you need a decent baseline grounding and Stock & Lambert's book on 'Strateigc Logistics' is a perfect complement. To move slightly higher up the food chain get the recent compilation of HBR articles called 'Managing the Value Chain'. Together the three make a perfect bookshelf set for any practioner, student or corporate executive who needs to understand what integrated logistics, SCM or the future of e-business might be doing to your career or your firm's competitive prospects !

Easy to read, theorethically strong and practical enough.......2006-03-03

After reading many books about logistics and supply chain issues, this third edition adds value to the field.

The author confirms his visionary approach and provides new thinking on supply chain risk and resilience. Not only agility is now more elaborated and explained as an important logistics strategy together with leaness, but also, hybrid strategies are proposed and practical cases are developed.

As always, the author ends with a view to the future and introduce the readers in the ever challenging thoughs of business transformations.

I Need It Yesterday .......2005-06-12

At first glance this is a book that is going to scare off the vast number of readers. Unless you are in this field or this is part of your daily job, why would you read this book. I submit that most managers today need to have a basic understanding of this process, which is why I read this book. Overall I came to the book with no real understanding of the topic nor had I ever read a book along these lines before. I found the book to be a nice and understandable overview of the topic. I did find it to be a bit more detailed then I was looking for, but I understand that the book was not necessarily meant for a reader such as myself.

I think what interested me most was that I used to think of this topic as just a line of trucks coming into the plant so to speak. The book brings out that supply chains are really complex networks with many moving parts. Due to the increased out sourcing and off shoring, the complexity of these chains has grown. With this complexity comes even more of a need for pro-active coordination within the network. This is the reason the book and concepts are important. Overall I enjoyed the book. Sure it had more detail then I wanted, but I assume that a seasoned professional in this line of work needs that detail. I also found the book to be, at times, a bit dry, but I attribute this to my lack of real depth in the area. If you are looking for something in this subject I think this is a good starting point.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service, Second Edition

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Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service, Second Edition
Martin Christopher
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This simple and straightforward book provides an introduction to phospholipid chemistry. Graduate students and practicing research scientists who are encountering these compounds for the first time will find this an excellent primer explaining the methodology for recovering lipids intact from cells and tissues. Additionally, the analytical methodology for the assay of phospholipids, together with a detailed description of the routes to their proof of structure is included. Several "hands-on" examples highlight the basic laboratory procedures.

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A Guide To Phospholipid Chemistry
Hanahan Donald J.
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fantastic book for beginners.......2005-08-15

This is really a nice book for those beginners like to know the evolution of earth, moon and the atmosphere. Its clear explanation and step by step procedure helps understanding the phenomenon easily. First few chapters are fantastic, not only for geology students but general people to understand the evolution and formation of earth. However, I encourage the author to use color photographs in it's next edition.

Excellent review of historical geolgy.......2001-02-28

As a practicing professional now 25yrs out of school I read this as a quick review of historical geology. Excellent organization with a highly accessible style. I especially appreciated the sections on the historical development of the North American Craton. As always, Condie's writings on plate tectonics and crustal evolution are authoritative.

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A mystery caper that takes the reader through two comically twisted tales of best intentions gone haywire. In spite of a deck stacked against her, a naïve young woman with a mysterious past rises to her fame, fortune and romance with a little cunning and lots of magic.

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Thanks to the author!.......2007-05-02

We're delighted that the author was kind enough to share the book with Bookshare.org, the nonprofit library for people who are blind. It's now available in talking book and Braille formats!

Hilarious first novel by "costume magician".......2005-05-26

Abracadabra Alakazam tells the story of Glenna Flanning, told by two unique young men, twenty-one years apart. The first part (Abracadabra) tells the tale of an actress traveling through the South of the United States in 1955 on her way to Hollywood. The second part (Alakazam) takes place twenty-one years earlier and has Glenna meeting a mysterious man. Glenna's good intentions that seems to go wrong all the time, makes the novel funny and very easy to read. It made me laugh out loud many times, because it's simply hilarious! With incredible sense of detail, wit, style and a very cinematic way of writing, it's a fantastic first book which makes you wonder when the next is coming...

Jean-Pierre Dorléac has designed costumes for many movies and television shows. He was nominated for an Oscar and nine times for an Emmy (and won twice!). It saddens me none of his design artwork was ever published! Maybe this novel now gets him the attention from publishers he deserves to accomplish this some day as well...

A MAGICAL ,FUNDERFUL ROMP.......2005-02-19

Mr. Dorleac's delightful sense of humor shines through in every chapter of this first-rate, waggish novel. I continually laughed aloud. And his way with dialogue and attention to visual and musical details makes reading his book feel like seeing the movie . . . which is not surprising considering his extensive background in films.

Witty, wicked, wise and wonderful .......2005-02-18

A delicious romp with a zany character that rivals Mame and the Little Me herione. Two different periods of her life, the fifties and the thirties and the various men that are after her for one reason or the other. Dorleac writes with a fine eye for detail and a natural ear for dialogue. This fast paced read is peppered with one liners that are worthy of being remembered. You won't forget this herione either. She's a natural for films. Hey, Hollywood, are you listening?!!

Great First Novel.......2005-02-17

Hollywood costume designer Jean-Paul Dorleac has published his first novel, Abracadabra Alakazam. The 404-page publication is actually two stories, both involving an actress, Glenna Flanning, and her adventures with two young men who enter her life, twenty-one years apart. Abracadabra is a "road" story about Rhonda Fleming look-alike Glenna traveling through the South in 1955 on her way to Hollywood, with Peter Stanton, a young dancer. The second half, Alakazam, takes place earlier, in 1934, when Glenna meets up with Jonathan Conway, a man with a secret, who is returning to Houston on a family emergency. The stories are very "cinematic" and there is already talk of a film version.

Abracadabra Alakazam is a stylish, witty and whimsical romp, written with clever and incredible detail about its characters and about the old South. The latter is particularly amazing, as French-born Dorleac has never lived in the southern U.S., only having visited there on movie shoots. When I asked him about that, he explained that, for him, writing a novel is just like designing a costume - you do the research and then put all of the elements together creatively.

Jean-Pierre has designed costumes for many movie features and television shows, including The Blue Lagoon, Battlestar Galactica, Heart and Souls, and Quantum Leap. He was nominated for an Oscar for Somewhere in Time, and has been nominated for an Emmy nine times, and won twice for Battlestar Galactica and AMC's The Lot. He is a cousin to actress Catherine Deneuve and her sister, the late Françoise Dorléac.

Abracadabra, alakazam, paz, salaam, shalom, amen. (Fiction and Poetry Award Winner).(author Marilyn Nelson)(Transcript): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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The use of violence to achieve political goals stretches all the way back to biblical times, and Walter Laqueur outlines its long practice in these pages. Yet his main concern is with the 21st-century threat of "megaterrorism": "What we know about past ages of barbarism is frightening enough," he writes. "The consequences of aggressive madness in the age of high technology and the era of weapons of mass destruction may well be beyond our imagination." Along the way, he offers a fascinating sociology of terrorism; its practitioners, for instance, tend to come from the educated middle classes (although this is far from a hard-and-fast rule). Also, terrorists rarely believe their actions will allow them to seize political power. Instead, they aim to provoke specific responses from their targets, such as lighting an international conflict. Although it is hardly a how-to book, The New Terrorism describes what it takes for terrorism to succeed--Laqueur's list of essentials includes careful planning, an ability to improvise, small units of operation, the anonymity of large urban areas, and ready sources of money. The book is full of rich observations, and there probably isn't a more knowledgeable source on the subject than Laqueur, who has written several books on European and Middle Eastern history and military analysis. His mild pessimism is troubling, but perhaps warranted. Terrorism is about to become even more terrible. --John J. Miller

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Recent attacks in Oklahoma City, at the World Trade Towers, and at American embassies in Africa demonstrate the horrifying consequences of a terrorist strike. But as technological advances make weapons of mass destruction frighteningly easy to acquire, a revolution is occurring in the very nature of terrorism--one that may make these attacks look like child's play. In The New Terrorism Walter Laqueur, one of the foremost experts on terrorism and international strategic affairs, recounts the history of terrorism and, more importantly, examines the future of terrorist activity worldwide. Laqueur traces the chilling trend away from terrorism perpetrated by groups of oppressed nationalists and radicals seeking political change to small clusters of fanatics bent on vengeance and simple destruction. Coinciding with this trend is the alarming availability of weapons of mass destruction. Chemical and biological weapons are cheap and relatively easy to make or buy. Even nuclear devices are increasingly feasible options for terrorists. And with the information age, cyber terrorism is just around the corner. Laqueur argues that as a new quasi-religious extreme right rises, with more personal and less ideological motivations than their left-wing counterparts, it is only a matter of time before the attainability of weapons of mass destruction creates a terrifying and unstable scenario. From militant separatism in Kashmir to state-sponsored extremism in Libya and ecoterrorism in the West, The New Terrorism offers a thorough account of terrorism in all its past and current manifestations. Most importantly, it casts a sober eye to the future, when the inevitable marriage of technology and fanaticism will give us all something new to think about.

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Fortunately not yet.......2006-04-07

Its always a pleasure to read a Walter Laqueur book, not only are you promised a well written book but some interesting discussions.

In this book he discusses terrorism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. Something that I am sure is coming but not fortunately not yet.

The problem with weapons of mass destruction is that chemical warfare is not very effective. Biological is unclear. No one has done much in it and it can effect everyone. Nuclear is probably out of the reach of a terrorist organization unless it can steal a bomb. What response would a nuclear blast give if released? Who knows? Look at the response that 911 caused.

Anyway to use nuclear weapons you need a safe house to keep them. Once the authorities know you have one they will be looking for it. You also probably need a few. One to blow up to show that you have a bomb and can use it. Another to maybe use. If they use it what would be the result?

Not to say a terrorist who wants a bomb is not be feared as it has been stated, "I don't fear a person that wants many nuclear bombs but I do fear the person that wants only one bomb."

Interestingly Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are not mentioned at all although he was already active. The book just came out just a bit to early in 1998.

One point I wished he had discussed more, is what motives would a terrorist organization have to use such weapons. Many countries today have such weapons and yet they don't use them. Maybe terrorist would be similarly affected for example before 911, the leaders of al Qaeda discussed but rejected attacking a nuclear power station as a target. The reason is that it would have a unclear result. It was seen as too dangerous.

Anyway in this book we are given some interesting history and is certainly a good read.

Stops short of 911.......2004-05-11

This book is little more than a rehash of high-profile terrorist attacks in the 20th century with very little insight into the forces that inspired them. Mr. Laqueur covers the gambit from the far right to the far left, with some discussion of the American "survivalists" and the "eco-freaks" that will go to any length to drive their points home. Laqueur seems more comfortable dealing with the Far Right extremists, as his research seems to be strongest in this regard. He seems on shaky ground when dealing with environmentalist terrorism, unsure of the various splinter groups that have adopted extreme actions in recent years.

His digressions into the literature that may have inspired such groups seem absurd at times, talking about James Bond supervillains and noting Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, which was a dark comedy on environmental terrorism. However, he discusses more pertinent books such as The Turner Diaries, which supposedly inspired Timothy McVeigh in attacking the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Probably the best chapter is Terrorism and History. Again, there is nothing new but he provides a good encapsulation of terrorism down through the centuries, noting the historic origins of suicide bombings which have sadly become the favored tactics of extreme Islamicists today. He ends by delving into the apocalyptic potential of terrorists should they get their hands on nuclear, chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction, but there is nothing very solid here. More of the doomsday scenarios we have grown accustomed to.

What I found sorely lacking was any attempt to deal with the political conditions that have given rise to the current wave of terrorism, such as the United States' and Britain's overextending foreign policy. Instead, the book is really nothing more than a collection of newspaper stories that will provide the reader with a general survey of terrorism and its threat to American foreign policy.

READ THIS FIRST.......2003-11-06

As a practicing Odinist, I find this book to be extremely persecuting. Because of this author, and many like him i might add, many people are misled to think that all Odinists are White Supremacists, which just is not true. I think authors, like this pud, should be more wary in there choice of words and make it known with even the vaguest acknowledgement that a small faction of Odinists is of an Aryan mentality. I had to say my piece in defense of all my indiscriminate Odinist sisters and brothers in the world, so farewell.

Apologia pro vita "The New Terrorism" sua.......2002-01-12

I keep thinking I've fread a different book than the ones that other people review. The History of Terrorism is one of those books. This book was fantastic, and it suffered from few to none of the problems attributed to it below.

I admit to being baffled by one other review in particular. Being fairly well versed in Baader-Meinhoff lore, and I couldn't find a single un-superficial problem with Laqueur's account of them, although I did like Laqueur's 1987 book "The Age of Terrorism" better than this book as far as the Red Army Faction goes. But these are small potato problems, and don't lead me at all to the conclusion our German friend had. I think it very significant that he did not bother to note a single "innacuracy".

The other criticisms are either utterly beside the point or approaching the absurd. The worst were the spurious definitional demands. Until it was taken up by dogmatists, terrorism clearly meant non-state, irregular violence. It was only the needs of left-rhetoric that expanded the view of terrorism to include what states do, which intelligent people might think is called "war" and "repression". I can think of no reason to include The US and Isreal except for dogmatic purposes: if we were to include Isreal, why would our German friend not include Cuba? The clear answer is this is an ideological agenda and not a serious rejoinder for an expansive notion of terrorism. Essentially, the other reviewer doesn't like the US or Isreal from political contacts and is saddened from a lack of political agenda on the part of Mr. Laqueur.

And if by some possibility our other reviewer friend does not mean some simple anti-American or anti-Isreali bias, then his main problem is that this book is an American writer writing from an American perspective on terrorism. Contrary to what mister Colberg believes, it is not a crime to have an American perspective.

The last point is most substantive, and wqhere Mr. Laqueur is most right and his other rewviewer is most wrong- the vast majority of terrorists throughout ages have clearly been unremarkable people. This is what makes the phenomenon so interesting- the notion that terrorism is part of some corner in human nature. I give to you the 19 unremarkable folks who took down the World Trade Center as an example. I don't think our other reviewer friend realizes quite how well Joseph Conrad defined the standard terrorist or why his characterization has survived so long in the minds of people who think about terrorism.

This was a fine book. Please buy it.

Very disappointing.......2001-11-10

If you read only one book on terrorism, make sure it's not this one - to change the statement made by former CIA director James Wollsey somewhat. The list of shortcomings of this book is so long that it'd hardly worth the effort to mention them all here - see also the other reviews.

The information in this book doesn't appear to be very thoroughly researched (e.g. I am German and a lot of what Mr Laqueur write about what he calls the Baader-Meinhoff gang - which is actually only the first generation of the RAF - is simply wrong). What's more, it is amazingly superficial. How can you for instance reject the claim that terrorist are "unremarkable people" (Maxwell Taylor and Ethel Quayle in "Terrorist Lives") by quoting Joseph Conrad, a novelist? Mr Laqueur only needs to look at studies on e.g. Nazi death squads to see how those people who killed thousands of Jews in fact were what you'd call unremarkable people. On and on goes the list of shortcomings.

On top of that, to make a political statement, Mr Laqueur's definition of what terrorism is excludes states like Israel (with a long history of state-sponsored terrorism) and the US itself (ditto - take for instance the US war against Nicaragua which, according to the international Court of Law, was pretty much state-sponsored terrorism). One could at least expect that an author who examines terrorism would look at all the different meanings the word "terrorism" has - as the ruler of Syria said the other day those Palestinian terrorists are freedom fighters for him. One might reject that but it has to be mentioned in a book which claims it is dealing with terrorism.

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The New Terrorism-Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction
Walter Laqueur
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Some Interesting Thoughts, Mostly Psuedoscientific Nonsense

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The right question and a fascinating answer

Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science
Ervin Laszlo
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Some Interesting Thoughts, Mostly Psuedoscientific Nonsense.......2002-08-23

I had high hopes for this text after reading the dust jacket while browsing at a local book givaway. I was drawn to the promises of original thought and the revealing of new ways of thinking about paradoxes which are present in our current scientific understanding. My interest of general sciences was piqued by references to evolution, the rise of the Big Bang cosmology, and the search for the Grand Unified Theories. Despite some attempt at delving into these complex subjects, Laszlo fails in delivering on his promise of a "fascinating journey."

Perhaps the first hint that this book wouldn't be the scholarly text I had mistaken it for was its slim size - at a little over 200 pages, the material can hardly do more than brush the surface of the topics it claims to illuminate. Part I, the survey of existing knowledge, is nothing more than a skewed and incomplete history lesson of scientific advances. Part II, wherein Laszlo claims to point out the paradoxes of modern science, merely describes our current point of scientific advance. To Laszlo, a "scientific paradox" is simply an event of phenomena that isn't clearly defined yet. If this is the case, then there will always be these paradoxes. Science, while advancing, will always have a frontier. Parts III and IV are short and underdeveloped.

If you're looking for a very quick review of some topics of science, then the first section of the book has some merit. The rest of the book seems hastily written and incompletely reasoned. The sole saving grace is the fact that Laszlo, an experienced writer, manages to pull off several life metaphors worth nothing and does leave the reader with a handful of questions to ponder. Overall though, this book was a disappointment, and I would not recommend it to any reader who has a serious interest in (or understanding of) science.

The Weakest Link.......2002-04-05

Pseudo-scientific nonsense. That anyone could believe that
this book had any scholarly merit is beyond my comprehension.
Highly speculative, kooky. This cannot be on the up and up.
Are there such legitimate organizations as the General Evolution
Research Group, the Club of Budapest and the International
Society for Modern Systems all of which the author founded and directs or has directed? The book is suitable for a cult of crystal ball fortune tellers.

The right question and a fascinating answer.......2000-10-18

One of the core questions our culture faces these days is how to understand ourselves within the context of the universe in which we live. The need is for a model which integrates our growing knowledge of our potentials as conscious subjects with what we are coming to know of the objective world. In both areas, the subjective and the objective, there is growing evidence of subtle interconnections among what we have long taken to be separate.

Laszlo provides an excelent and very readable, non technical, survey of the state of our research knowledge in the areas of the cosmos, of matter, of life and of the mind. He clearly guides us through the paradoxes which appear in this research and shows that many of them may be resolvable if we have some subtle connection among items by which information can be transmitted which is not limited by the currently accepted constraints of time and space.

He shows how a fifth fundamental energy field, the zero energy field of the quantum vacuum, now being studied by some physicists can provide the means for establishing such subtle connections and reviews some of the leading edge research in this area.

What especially recommends this book is the combination of thorough understanding of the science involved with a basically humanistic viewpoint that Laszlo (himself a leading philosopher of science and major contributor to systems theory) brings to this account.

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Originally published in 1992 as An Introduction to Wildland Ethics and Management, this fully revised and updated edition is a powerful tool for understanding the challenges facing wilderness in the United States today. Beginning with the premise that land management must be informed by a well-developed wilderness ethic, the authors delve into some of the thorniest problems in environmental ethics, exploring them in clear, straightforward language: What is wilderness? Why should it be protected? Do animals have rights? Do trees? When should wilderness concerns trump individual priorities? The book also provides a fascinating history of the wilderness movement in America and gives a comprehensive survey of the legislation and agency structures that define wildlands management today. Essential reading for land managers, activists, policymakers, or anyone else who cares about the future of wilderness in the United States.

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Valuing Recreation and The Environment

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This impressive volume analyzes revealed preference approaches to modeling the demand for recreational resources. It presents one of the most thorough treatments of methods that rely on observed behavior to estimate the value of environmental amenities.

The authors have brought together a collection of papers by top applied environmental economists, providing professional economists and policy analysts with a comprehensive reference on the current state-of-the-art in recreation demand analysis. The papers encompass both the theory of welfare measurement and practical applications. The volume will be essential reading for those interested in "tooling up" on revealed preference approaches. For long-term practitioners, the papers provide an invaluable reference on recent developments in their field.

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Valuing the Environment in Developing Countries: Case Studies

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The substantial and growing interest in the monetary valuation of preferences for environmental improvement, and against environmental damage, has prompted a demand for case studies illustrating methodologies and applications of valuation techniques. In this book, the first of two volumes, the authors provide detailed case studies of valuation techniques that have been used in developing countries. They demonstrate that valuation works and that it can yield significant insights into policy-relevant issues regarding conservation and economic development.

The authors address a whole range of environmental issues under the broad themes of water and air quality, biological diversity and forest functions. The economic approaches covered include contingent valuation, hedonic property prices, travel cost methodologies and benefits transfer. They also go on to look at the idea of extending national accounts to reflect changes in environmental assets. Examples of the varied and interesting case studies include valuing improvements to sanitation in Malaysia, the value of visits to game parks in South Africa and tropical forest values in Mexico. They highlight how valuation techniques can be applied, often with limited resources, to critical development issues.

Academics and practitioners of environmental economics will draw great value from this unique and original work, as will the many multilateral and bilateral aid agencies. The book will also prove a valuable addition to graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental economics where there is a need for case material.

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Valuing recreation and the environment. (Books Reviewed).(Review): An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
George R. Parsons
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