Analysing strategic environmental assessment

towards better decision-making

Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) is an insightful new approach to environmental evaluation, based on decision theory, policy analysis and environmental considerations. These concepts, though not new in their own fields of application, are combined and integrated in an innovative fashion. This book presents recent ...

Economic instruments of pollution control in an imperfect world

theory and implications for carbon dioxide emissions control in China

This volume discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. The book begins with a general analysis of economic instruments of pollution control, and is followed by the ...

The economics of energy and the production process

an evolutionary approach

The economics of energy has been a contested issue over the past century. Although it has not figured prominently in mainstream economics, numerous alternative proposals have called for energy to play a more central role in economic theory. In this highly original and enlightening volume ...

The economics of energy efficiency

barriers to cost-effective investment

Eco-efficiency,regulation and sustainable business

towards a governance structure for sustainable development

This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefits. The distinguished authors discuss a ...

Sustaining agriculture and the rural environment

governance, policy and multifunctionality

Institutional change for sustainable development

This volume presents a flexible conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of instututional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and ...

El pretérito imperfecto

La empresa familiar

encrucijada de intereses personales y empresariales

Kangxi Empereur de Chine

1662-1722: la cité interdite à Versailles

Las reglas en juego

Un examen filosófico de la toma de decisiones basada en reglas, en el Derecho y en la vida cotidiana

El uso de reglas para orientar nuestras acciones parece, al menos a primera vista, sujeto a un problema fundamental: el de la justificación racional del seguimiento de reglas. Cualquier regla destaca como relevantes ciertas circunstancias para calificar normativamente una acción como obligatoria, prohibida o permitida ...

Malaspina

Sancho Panza lee el Quijote

Gala

biografía

Basta mencionar el nombre de Gala para que cualquiera responda enseguida: «La mujer de Dalí», pero ¿cuánta gente sabe con exactitud quién fue? Gala fue probablemente la mujer famosa más secreta de nuestro siglo. Una arpía y una bruja para unos, una intrigante, un monstruo ...

La ciudad medieval

orígenes y triunfo de la Europa urbana

Brujas, Francfort, Génova, Roma o París son tan representativas de la Edad Media como el feudalismo, el vasallaje y las expediciones de los cruzados. En el momento de su configuración definitiva, el mapa de las ciudades de Europa coincide con el de los centros de ...

Arquitectos españoles en la Roma del Grand Tour

1746-1796

El libro reconstruye la experiencia estética y vital del viaje que algunos arquitectos españoles realizaron a Roma -capital artística de la cultura europea de las Luces- en el siglo XVIII con la intención de ampliar sus estudios y perfeccionar su formación, en la creencia de ...

Hipatia de Alejandría

La catedrática de historia romana antigua en la Universidad Jagelónica de Cracovia, María Dzielska, nos invita en este libro a dar un salto en el espacio y en el tiempo. Dzielska nos retrotrae a la Alejandría de los día de Hipatia, una matemática brillante, neoplatónica ...

Manual de Historia del Derecho

A tale of two global cities

comparing the territorialities of telecommunications developments in Paris and London

Since the mid-1980s, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and cultural processes and transformations which are increasingly concentrated in and between key strategic urban places across the globe. By analysing telecommunications developments ...

Recent developments in environmental economics

This two volume collection includes the most important and influential contributions to environmental economics during the last ten years. The articles cover a broad range of topics and the collection gives an excellent overview over the present state of knowledge in the field. These timely ...