Introduced Mammals of New Zealand: an Ecological and Economic Survey.

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The emergent discipline of ecological economics is based on the idea that the world's economies are a function of the earth's ecosystems - an idea that radically reverses the world view of neoclassical economics. A Survey of Ecological Economics provides the first overview of this new field, and a comprehensive and systematic survey of its critical literature.

The editors of the volume summarize ninety-five seminal articles, selected through an exhaustive survey, that advance the field of ecological economics and represent the best thinking to date in the area. Each two-to three-page summary is far more comprehensive than a typical abstract, and presents both the topics covered in each paper and the most important arguments made about each topic. Sections cover:

historical perspective
definition, scope, and interdisciplinary issues
theoretical frameworks and techniques
energy and resource flow analysis
accounting and evaluation
North-South/international issues
ethical/social/institutional issues

Each section is preceded by an introductory essay that outlines the current state of knowledge in the field and proposes a research agenda for the future.

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Only Summaries.......2002-04-17

This is a wonderful collection of essays and the introductory sections are very informative, however the complete essays are not included, only 2-3 summaries written by the editors. This may not be clear from the information given by Amazon.com.

The essays are the some of the best in the field and the summaries well written. But, the overall usefulness of this book is limited. It may be a good starting point for research; readers will quickly find themselves wanting the full text of some of the essays summarized. It may also be a useful study guide for students who have read many of the complete articles and would like a quick summary that is more complete then a usual journal abstract.

Beyond that, this is not a helpful book. I would recommend Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability by Robert Costanza, which contains many of the same articles and other works by many of the same authors.

This book is priced much lower than other collections of essays in Ecological Economics, but considering it does not contain full articles it should probably be even cheaper.

One to have !.......1999-04-26

As a student in environmental economics at masters-level, i must say that this essay collection has come as rain from a blue sky. Essay collections in general is a great thing, and indeed there is a few of reccommendation behind from this one. But two things stands out from this one. Firstly in embraces a vast number of articles which rightly belongs to the "classics" category. And unfortunately such articles are sometimes hard to come by, and a number of the article included in this collection has not, to my knowledge, been published before. Therefore the book is excellent as a reference collection. Furthermore the structure of the book, is made up in such a way, that the articles are printed under a thematic heading. And the editors has managed to provide some excellent introductions to each new subject, which mean that the reader, even though he's not capable of grasping the essence of all the collected essays, at least get a fair idea of the problems involved.

In all, this means this collection, apart from being an important reference book, is providing a very comprehensive way of making essay collections in general. So all five stars are indeed well deserved.

Analytical summaries of the best of the literature.......1998-11-03

The Frontier Issues in Economic Thought summaries, along with the overview essays, provide a markedly different service from the standard collection of abstracts. The series will benefit not only scholarly work but the application of our best thinking to the problems of the times.

Kenneth Prewit, President, Social Sciences Research Council

A new paradigm of economic thought for the 21st century.......1998-10-16

I worked for many years in Central America as a correspondent for the Financial Times and as an economist have felt frustrated at what I increasingly perceived as a yawning gap in economic, political, and philosophical thought, that was preventing our increasingly globalized world from facing the huge challenges of unemployment, poverty, and environmental catastrophe that seem to lay ahead. A SURVEY OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS has helped fill that gap for me, and has given me optimism that we are not too late to do something about these issues. The book is exactly what I have been looking for and has helped define for me at least what I believe could be the basis of a new paradigm of economic thought for the 21st century.

A comprehensive and systematic survey.......1998-10-13

Although I did not understand this during my college years -- nor, I suspect, did the economists who wrote the texts I used -- economics has a key role to play in the urgent quest for a path toward sustainability. A SURVEY OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS is an extremely important record of how economics is beginning to collaborate with other disciplines to contribute to that quest, as well as to other essential inquiries into the manner in which people interact with each other and with the world around them.

The editors have searched the literature in many different fields to find keynote articles which extend economic thinking into new areas. Unifying the whole contents of the book -- the overview essays of the editors, and their summaries of about 85 selected papers -- is the underlying theme that new methods must be found which will improve the quality of human lives. This purposeful use of the economic perspective to be of service in the quest for broad environmental and social improvement and for alternatives to the status quo is tremendously valuable. This book serves a unique purpose for me, and I suspect for many other readers. I am certain that I would never personally perform the literature searches which the editors have undertaken. The summaries and overview essays are an efficient way to introduce me to material that is far from my own discipline of training. Without this series I would not have access to the important papers, both current and historical, which are presented and interpreted in A SURVEY OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS and its companion volumes in the "Frontier Issues in Economic Thought" series.

Steven Katona President, College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, Maine

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Analysing decision behaviour in stated preference surveys: A consumer psychological approach [An article from: Ecological Economics]
A. Fischer , and N. Hanley
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper applies a typology adapted from the consumer psychology literature to a Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) survey. We argue that the typology is helpful as a way of identifying responses that contain useful information on preferences for the environmental good in question, relative to those which are unlikely to contain such information. Applying this framework to a CVM study of agri-environmental payments in Germany, we find that some 90% of responses are preference-revealing; this distribution changes when the framing of the good is changed. The typology may be of most use during the design stage of future CVM studies, since it enables researchers to increase the fraction of responses that are useful.

Benefits of participating in contingent valuation mail surveys and their effects on respondent behavior: a panel analysis [An article from: Ecological Economics]

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Benefits of participating in contingent valuation mail surveys and their effects on respondent behavior: a panel analysis [An article from: Ecological Economics]
N. Hidano , T. Kato , and M. Aritomi
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ASIN: B000RR345Y

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We investigated the ''fringe benefits'' of participating in contingent-valuation mail surveys and their effects on respondents' answers. A two-wave panel survey evaluating Japan's anti-global warming policies was conducted. One sample was randomly assigned to either of two survey treatment groups with different survey loads. Factor analyses of answers distinguished the survey fringe benefit factor from the environmental concern factor. The correlation between the two factors was smaller for the heavy load group than for the light load group. Estimations of structural equation models showed that survey participation became higher when the survey fringe benefit factor scored higher. This tendency was found regardless of the survey load level. Structural equation models did not confirm a positive correlation between the survey fringe benefit factor and the consistency of WTP answers across survey waves. However, a logistic regression of the answers from the heavy-load group revealed a positive correlation between the consistency of WTP answers and the level of ''perception of the survey as a good cause,'' which was highly correlated to the fringe benefit factor in the previous factor analyses. This positive relationship was not detected for the light-load group.

Channels of transmission of environmental policy to economic growth: A survey of the theory [An article from: Ecological Economics]

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Channels of transmission of environmental policy to economic growth: A survey of the theory [An article from: Ecological Economics]
F. Ricci
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ASIN: B000PDT184

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Economists generally hold that environmental regulations impose constraints on the production possibilities set and are therefore potentially harmful to economic growth. In recent years, however, it has been recognized that environmental regulation can enhance the prospects for growth if improved environmental quality increases the productivity of inputs or the efficiency of the education system. It is also held that environmental regulation promotes pollution abatement activity and can lead to the exploitation of increasing returns to scale in abatement. Furthermore, expectations of a better environment may encourage households to save. Finally, it has been conjectured that environmental regulations can stimulate innovation because R&D is a relatively clean activity and because the market share of clean innovations increases. Future empirical research should shed light on the relative importance of these different channels of transmission of environmental policy to the growth rate of the economy.

The contribution of built, human, social and natural capital to quality [An article from: Ecological Economics]

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The contribution of built, human, social and natural capital to quality [An article from: Ecological Economics]
K. Mulder , R. Costanza , and J. Erickson
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Distributional preferences in contingent valuation surveys [An article from: Ecological Economics]

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Distributional preferences in contingent valuation surveys [An article from: Ecological Economics]
L.T. Johnson
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Does the hybrid Toyota Prius lead to rebound effects? Analysis of size and number of cars previously owned by Swiss Prius buyers [An article from: Ecological Economics]

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Does the hybrid Toyota Prius lead to rebound effects? Analysis of size and number of cars previously owned by Swiss Prius buyers [An article from: Ecological Economics]
P. de Haan , M.G. Mueller , and A. Peters
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000PA9SQ2

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Hybrid powertrains are considered being a promising technology to decrease fuel consumption of passenger cars. Sales numbers of hybrid cars are expected to rise considerably until 2010. However, the introduction of more efficient products is often accompanied by rebound effects, which counteract the positive effect of increased efficiency. We investigate two kinds of direct rebound effects that could possibly occur when buying hybrid cars: (i) people could tend to switch from small and/or already fuel-efficient cars to the new hybrid car, and (ii) the average vehicle ownership could increase, if the hybrid car is often purchased without disposing of an already owned vehicle. A survey was conducted with all 367 buyers of the Toyota Prius 2 in Switzerland in the first nine months after market entry. Return rate reached 82.6% without sending out reminders. The survey-based approach does not allow us to investigate whether hybrid drivers will in the future drive more (the classical example of the direct rebound effect). Detailed data on the car replaced by the Prius and on the other cars owned by the household were collected. Our analysis shows that average CO2 emissions dropped from 210 g/km for the previously owned vehicles to 104 g for the Prius. Empty vehicle weight (curb weight) increased by 9 kg only, which is below the market trend. A constant population-averaged vehicle ownership still allows for a certain amount of first-time car purchases and for increasing vehicle ownership for individual households, as these additional cars are compensated for by other households disposing of a vehicle. We present a new vehicle ownership model which assesses whether the vehicle transaction behavior of a sample of new car buyers corresponds, on average, to constant or increasing vehicle ownership. It is based on disaggregated data from the Swiss travel behavior micro census. Model results are consistent with market data and data from literature. Model results show that if ca. 20% of car purchases do not replace a vehicle (for a population with an age distribution identical to Prius buyers), this still allows for constant average household vehicle ownership. Only 13.7% of the surveyed Prius buyers did not replace an old car. Hence neither of the two rebound effects investigated could be found though the sample would have been large enough to do so: vehicle size did not increase, nor did average household vehicle ownership.

Dynamic incentives by environmental policy instruments-a survey [An article from: Ecological Economics]

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Dynamic incentives by environmental policy instruments-a survey [An article from: Ecological Economics]
T. Requate
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this paper I survey and discuss recent developments on the incentives provided by environmental policy instruments for both adoption and development of advanced abatement technology. A main conclusion to be drawn from the literature is that under competitive conditions market based instruments usually perform better than command and control. Moreover, taxes may provide stronger long term incentives than tradable permits if the regulator is myopic. If the government can anticipate new technology or is able to react on it optimally, regulatory policies by virtue of administered prices (taxes) and policies by setting quantities (issuing tradable permits) are (almost) equivalent. The literature also shows that under competitive conditions there is no difference between auctioning permits and grandfathering. Moreover, timing and commitment of environmental policy is not crucial for adoption under competitive conditions. Commitment has positive incentive effects, however, if an R&D sector has market power. In the presence of market imperfections the ranking of the different policy instruments is ambiguous.

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Nicaragua has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.

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Must Read! Groundbreaking Study of Urban/Suburban America.......2002-11-15

Anybody interested in public policy, urban/suburban settings, politics, sociology, urban studies, business, political science, and/or regional socioeconomic betterment must read this book. Growth and Convergence analyzes demographic, social, and economic data from across the country. Her research is strong and conclusions tangible, logical and helpful. Pack offers real, concrete solutions to urban problems such as improved, more effective regional planning and macro-level public policy geared towards bettering the socioeconomic condition of both city dwellers and suburbanites.

Chickenhead, O Chickenhead, how lovely are thy giblets!.......2002-09-17

J Pack looks like a chicken. Hence her lovely nickname "chickenhead." Oh, by the way, loved the book.

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Chickenhead, O Chickenhead, how lovely are thy giblets!.......2002-09-12

J. Pack looks like a chicken! Hence, her lovely nickname "Chickenhead." Oh, by the way, loved the book.

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 348 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Geography is destiny. (Planners Library).(book review; history of recent migration within the U.S. )(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Harold Henderson
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 4 Page: 48(1)

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Janet Rothenberg Pack, Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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Janet Rothenberg Pack, Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Joseph A. Deering
Manufacturer: Western Michigan University, School of Social Work
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, published by Western Michigan University, School of Social Work on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Janet Rothenberg Pack, Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America.(Book Review)
Author: Joseph A. Deering
Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Western Michigan University, School of Social Work
Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Page: 219(3)

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SAY CHIC...C'est magnifique!

Ever wonder why some French words have become so common in English as to be clichés? Or why your witty repartee wouldn't be quite so witty without them?

In Say Chic, Françoise Blanchard and Jeremy Leven collect more than seventy familiar French words and phrases that have become a permanent part of the American vocabulary. In their clever, often amusing style, the authors explain the origin of each word, its meaning, and how it came to be adopted into English. Uniting the sensibilities of an American author and a French author, these surprisingly entertaining stories combine world history, pop culture, etymology, and pithy observations about Americans and the French, with no small amount of panache.

Featuring delightful illustrations, Say Chic will find its raison d'être on the bookshelf of anyone who has ever longed to be an American in Paris and hankers for a bit more of that irresistible je ne sais quoi in America.

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We Say It Without Words

We Say It Without Words
Lillian D. Bjorseth
Manufacturer: Duoforce Enterprises Inc
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Communications | Skills | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0963748734

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People decide 10 things about you within 10 seconds of meeting you. These decisions are based on your image, a combination of your appearance and behavior. This workbook helps you examine the behavior part of the equation. You will learn that how you say something (body language)is far more powerful than what you say. You will also learn the specifics, like what you say through your posture, gestures, eye contact, facial expressions, etc. Your actions do speak louder than your words!

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We Say It Without Words.......2001-09-03

I found this book to be interesting, easy reading and thought provoking.

Realizing that body language is important, and to be able to "read" it, is one of the best people skills a person can develop. Whether you are the office manager, or a clerk in a store, by reading the body language of co-workers, or customers, can give you the advantage in most situations.

The reader takes a pre-test, and without looking up the answers, studies the book. At the end a post-test is taken and then the answers are compared. I was amazed at the improvement. I wouldn't recommend doing the entire book at once. Take 1 or 2 sections and apply them before going on.

I was a little disappointed that there wasn't more to the book. The exercises were good, I just felt like there should have been a lecture to go with it, to re-enforce what the book said.

Overall, this would be a good workbook for staff training.

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Preparing for the Clast Mathematics: Study Guide & Disk

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Preparing for the CLAST-Mathematics
Ignacio Bello
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Through a unique problem-solving approach that enables non-math majors to see math at work in the contemporary world, this highly accessible text helps students develop techniques and methods that will be invaluable to them throughout their lives and careers. Special examples are presented in a two-column format with the easy-to-remember instructions, RSTUV (Read, Select, Think of a plan, Use the techniques, and Verify). More than 500 examples and 4100 carefully developed exercises cover a wide range of topics and provide both instructor and student with flexibility in choosing computational, drill, or conceptual problems. Real-world applications motivate students and hold their interest.

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Preparing for the Clast-Mathematics

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Topics in Contemporary Math Preparing for the Clast Study Guide Seventh Edition: Used with ...Bello-Topics in Contemporary Mathematics

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Topics in Contemporary Math Preparing for the Clast Study Guide Seventh Edition: Used with ...Bello-Topics in Contemporary Mathematics
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No matter how long you've been in sales, you should ask yourself, "How can I improve?" This book outlines the nine-step sales cycle and emphasizes the basic tools for sales success-effective communication and sensitive interaction. The sales cycle starts with tips on how to get organized and finishes with ways to provide follow-up service once you've closed a sale.

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Applications of Performance Scoring to Accounts Receivable Management in Consumer Credit
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