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Author : Judith A. Cherni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Air
ISBN : 0333794834
Author : J. Cherni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403907134
Judith A. Cherni presents a critical text of interdisciplinary research and a theoretical argued case for analyzing a physical/social problem with a political economic approach. The author identifies the convergence of global economic growth trends and the localization of environmental and health risks. Backed by scientific findings, she challenges the exclusive use of the natural sciences for explanation. Drawing also on participatory knowledge of local residents, she uses an original database of a large household survey in Houston, US.
Author : James K. Boyce
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843766971
Professor Boyce s work is an excellent example of how ecological economics can be done in an objective, evidence-based approach that can put issues on the agenda in a manner where they will be taken seriously by other scholars. . . This is a well-written and provocative book that should encourage further research on all these important issues. David I. Stern, International Journal of Social Economics This succinct and sometimes provocative book sets out to document, quantify and explain the ways in which inequalities of wealth and power create an uneven apportionment of environmental costs across the world. It offers a combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence to support the author s central contention that greater democratisation and changes in society s relationship with nature are paramount for achieving the dual goals of environmental protection and sustainable development. . . This book is immensely well written. . . makes for a fascinating read. Ian Bailey, European Spatial Research and Policy Economic activities that degrade the environment do not simply pit humans against nature. They also pit some humans against others. Some benefit from these activities; others bear net costs from pollution and resource depletion. In a provocative and original analysis, James K. Boyce examines the dynamics of environmental degradation in terms of the balances of power between the winners and the losers. He provides evidence that inequalities of power and wealth affect not only the distribution of environmental costs, but also their overall magnitude: greater inequalities result in more environmental degradation. Democratization movement toward a more equitable distribution of power therefore is not only a worthwhile objective in its own right, but also an important means toward the social goals of environmental protection and sustainable development. Combining theoretical analysis with empirical evidence from around the world, James K. Boyce demonstrates that changes in our relationship with nature ultimately require changes in our relationships with each other. He maintains that a more democratic and environmentally sustainable future is possible, but warns that it is not inevitable. This book will appeal to students, scholars, policymakers and other readers interested in the environment, economics and public policy.
Author : Warren A. Johnson,John Hardesty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89033920281
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264257474
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic consequences of outdoor air pollution in the coming decades, focusing on the impacts on mortality, morbidity, and changes in crop yields as caused by high concentrations of pollutants.
Author : Richard Lecomber
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036206402
Author : Paul W. Barkley,David William Seckler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050693715
Economic analysis of the relationship between economic growth and environmental decay in the capitalist economic system, with particular reference to the ecological and economic implications of rapid growth rate in the USA - explores strategic and tactical considerations for a programme of pollution control, and covers social implications, public interest, government policy, etc. References and statistical tables.
Author : James K. Boyce
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 178100000X
'A colleague of mine puts it best: when thinking about the fundamentals of the economy and the environment, there is Pigou, Coase, and Boyce. Boyce adds to traditional economics the critical understanding that social power is a determinant of the extent and spatial scale of environmental degradation. In these essays, on subjects ranging from housing and credit markets to agriculture and globalization, Boyce mixes a data-driven picture of unequal environmental protection with a keen and useful discussion of the many forms of social power that can help right the scales.' - Eban Goodstein, Bard College, US
Author : Horst Siebert,Ariane Berthoin Antal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015004869296
Author : Nemat Shafik,Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Crecimiento economico
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
It is possible to "grow out of" some environmental problems, but there is nothing automatic about doing so. Action tends to be taken where there are generalized local costs and substantial private and social benefit. Where the costs of environmental degredation are borne by others (by the poor or by other countries), there are few incentives to alter damaging behavior. Trade, debt, and other macroeconomic policy variables seem to have little generalized effect on the environment.
Author : Johnny Ch LOK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973165813
PrefaceI have three reasons to write this book. This book is suitable to readers who have interest to learn how to achieve government policy to reduce environment pollution, but also keeps economic growth at the same time, or who have need to solve environment pollution challenges when who needs to open factory to manufacture products, or the student who needs to find what kind of method how to measure whether average income capita of GDP after reduction of environment pollution cost per year. My first reason is to give recommendation to indicate whether how to prove environmental pollution will influence to the country's economy whether which is increasing or decreasing in the long term and I also recommend that whether how any country's government and manufacturer can reduce environment pollution and I explain what are the bad influences from environment pollution to any countries for long term.My second reason is to explain why environment and human's qualify of life and economic growth has close relationship. I shall give reasons and evidences to support my idea. In this book, I shall also indicate these developed countries , such as England, US, Canada and New Zealand are encountering environmental pollution challenges as well as other developing countries, such as India, China and Hong Kong are also encountering environmental pollution challenges. I shall explain why which will influence their citizen's quality of life and economic growth challenge. Finally, I shall indicate how which can solve this cities environmental pollution challenge. This book is suitable to any students who have interest to research why economy pollution can influence our quality of life and economic growth challenge. My final reason is to explain why human need to solve the resources scarcity before 2050 year. Finally, I shall recommend what methods can be used attempt to solve resources scarcity by agriculture production technology, climate changing, human diet habit and consumption behavior, changing foods supply chain systems between countries and recopy or renew technology to foods and energy etc. aspects. It is adapt to economist, food scientist etc. professional to read. In conclusion, these reasons will confirm that why environment pollution will raise economy growth cost in long term. Human needs to considerate environment pollution challenge how to influence global economy growth and our standard of life both will be fallen down. Thus, we can not neglect environment pollution challenge and our economy growth will have close relationship.
Author : Gareth Dale,Manu V. Mathai,Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783604906
The discourse of ‘green growth’ has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model. But the green growth project is deeply inadequate, whether assessed against criteria of social justice or the achievement of sustainable economic life upon a materially finite planet. This volume outlines three main lines of critique. First, it traces the development of the green growth discourse quaideology. It asks: what explains modern society’s investment in it, why has it emerged as a master concept in the contemporary conjuncture, and what social forces does it serve? Second, it unpicks and explains the contradictions within a series of prominent green growth projects. Finally, it weighs up the merits and demerits of alternative strategies and policies, asking the vital question: ‘if not green growth, then what?’
Author : Lelia Croitoru,Maria Sarraf
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821383186
This book brings together the best case studies of valuing the Cost of Environmental Degradation in several Middle East and North African countries and summarizes their impacts at the country and regional levels.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author : Paul Ekins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134689392
A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability economic growth or `green growth', a contradiction in terms? Avoiding the confusion that often surrounds these issues, Ekins provides rigorous expositions of the concept of sustainability, integrated environmental and economic accounting, the Environmental Kuznets Curve, the economics of climate change and environmental taxation. Individual chapters are organised as self-contained, state-of-the-art expositions of the core issues of environmental economics, with extensive cross-referencing from one chapter to another, in order to guide the student or policy-maker through these complex problems. Paul Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainability of economic growth, as it occurs in the real world, may be judged. It is argued that `green growth' is not only theoretically possible but economically achievable and the authors show what environmental and economic policies are required to achieve this. Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability will be welcolmed by students of and researchers in environmental economics and environmental studies, as well as all interested policy-makers.
