Nature-based tourism, environment and land management

Tourism based on natural environments is a huge international industry and this industry needs access to land with scenery, native plants and wildlife. In turn, land managers need money to maintain their land and its natural resources. This book looks at the economic, social and ...

Risk and uncertainty in environmental and natural resource economics

This work explores some of the complexities of decision-making under risk and uncertainty in environmental and natural resource economics. Risk and uncertainty are inherent problems for economists, and the authors in this volume offer numerous challenges and opportunities to improve the tools we use to ...

Ciudad, gestión local y nuevos desafíos ambientales

reflexiones en torno a las políticas neoliberales y sus efectos sobre nuestros territorios

En las últimas décadas, las ciudades argentinas han manifestado un rápido aumento de la población como una notable expansión territorial. Esta producción #rápida# de ciudad, solo suelos productivos o no aptos, con ocupaciones ilegales o precarias, y sin mediación directa del Estado, ha devenido en ...

Does environmental policy work?

the theory and practice of outcomes assessment

At the beginning of the 21st century, a growing struggle has arisen between those who would like to repeal existing environmental policy and those who would like to see greater environmental protection. On both sides, however, many of the arguments remain grounded in ideology. This ...

The human sustainable city

challenges and perspectives from the habitat agenda

Five years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together leading experts in fields including architecture, urban planning, sociology and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon.

Economía ambiental

un análisis crítico

Rio plus ten

politics, poverty and environment

Rio Plus Ten took place in South Africa in 2002. In this book, the authors revisit the agenda established in Rio ten years ago and cover the events of the intervening years: global warming and the unfolding of the arguments over climate change, GM crops ...

Aplicación de las técnicas de la ingeniería del conocimiento en el proceso de toma de decisiones empresariales en materia de gestión medioambiental

La ecología del desarrollo humano

Para comprender como se desarrollan los niños, Bronfenbrenner cree que es necesario observar su conducta en entornos naturales, mientras interactúan con adultos que les son familiares, durante un tiempo prolongado. Su libro ofrece un esquema importante para construir una psicología del desarrollo no sólo renovadora ...

Environmental impacts of globalization and trade

a systems study

The relationship between trade and the environment has become an increasingly contentious issue between economists and environmentalists. Economists maintain that trade helps the natural environment because rich countries can better afford to protect their unspoiled areas. Environmentalists counter that the pursuit of national wealth drives ...

Evaluación ambiental estratégica

la evaluación ambiental de políticas, planes y programas

La evaluación del impacto ambiental en la encrucijada

los retos del futuro

La conservación de los espacios naturales

estrategias urbanísitcas de protección.

Anuario Fungesma del medio ambiente en España 2002

Technology transfer for renewable energy

overcoming barriers in developing countries

This text highlights the role that renewable energy can play in achieving sustainable development. It focuses on rural areas of developing countries, looking in particular at stand-alone solar home systems and grid-connected biomass cogeneration plants. It analyzes the main barriers to the successful transfer of ...

El estudio del impacto ambiental

una introducción

Valuing cultural heritage

applying environmental valuation techniques to historic buildings, monuments, and artifacts

Environment and statecraft

the strategy of environmental treaty-making

Vital signs 2002

the trends that are shaping our future

Recursos mundiales 2002

la guía global del planeta. la gente y los ecosistemas: se deteriora el tejido de la vida