Rocks and Minerals Kit (Unpriced Stock)
Author : Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1995-10-01
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ISBN : 9780751381757
Author : Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1995-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780751381757
Author : Penguin Books, Limited
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1997-07-01
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ISBN : 9780751304374
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309155800
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are not reflected in energy market prices. When market failures like this occur, there may be a case for government interventions in the form of regulations, taxes, fees, tradable permits, or other instruments that will motivate recognition of these external or hidden costs. The Hidden Costs of Energy defines and evaluates key external costs and benefits that are associated with the production, distribution, and use of energy, but are not reflected in market prices. The damage estimates presented are substantial and reflect damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation, motor vehicle transportation, and heat generation. The book also considers other effects not quantified in dollar amounts, such as damages from climate change, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security. While not a comprehensive guide to policy, this analysis indicates that major initiatives to further reduce other emissions, improve energy efficiency, or shift to a cleaner electricity generating mix could substantially reduce the damages of external effects. A first step in minimizing the adverse consequences of new energy technologies is to better understand these external effects and damages. The Hidden Costs of Energy will therefore be a vital informational tool for government policy makers, scientists, and economists in even the earliest stages of research and development on energy technologies.
Author : Erik Brynjolfsson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393239357
The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
Author : Deborah Kay Elms
Publisher :
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789287038821
A collection of papers by some of the world's leading specialists on global value chains (GVCs). It examines how GVCs have evolved and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing world. The approach is multi-disciplinary, with contributions from economists, political scientists, supply chain management specialists, practitioners and policy-makers. Co-published with the Fung Global Institute and the Temasek
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2016-04-27
Category :
ISBN : 9264251723
This report explores the growth prospects for the ocean economy, its capacity for future employment creation and innovation, and its role in addressing global challenges. Special attention is devoted to the emerging ocean-based industries.
Author : Richard L. Sandor
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2014-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814612432
A Brief Survey of Environmental Asset Classes; Market Failures and Policy Responses; Acid Rain Pollutants as an Asset Class; Greenhouse Gas Pollutants as an Asset Class; Emerging Geographies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Markets; Forest Carbon as an Asset Class; Clean Energy Markets and Their Associated Asset Classes; Water Markets and Their Associated Asset Classes; Markets for Water Quality-Nutrient Trading; Sustainable Fisheries Management and Its Associated Asset Classes; Weather Risks and Associated Asset Classes; Sustainability and Associated Asset Classes; Conclusion: You Can Put a Price on Nature;
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231004883
Author : K. Uno
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9401714339
Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag mented and eclectic policies and strategies. The 1992 United Nations Con ference on Environment and Development, the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro, called therefore for an integrated approach in planning and policy making to achieve long-term sustainable growth and development. The Con ference also recognized in its action plan, the Agenda 21, that integrated poli cies need to be supported by integrated information, notably requiring the implementation of integrated environmental and economic accounting by its member States. During the preparations for the Rio Summit, scientists and practitioners of national accounting met in a Special Conference on Environmental Account ing, organized by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Baden, Austria. Their aim was to explore the need for and methodologies of adjusting national accounts for environmental reasons. National accountants had faced mounting criticism that conventional accounting neglected new scarcities in natural capital, as well as the social cost of environmental degradation. The result of their deliberations was a draft manual, later issued by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) as a handbook of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.
Author : Ernst Ulrich Weizsäcker
Publisher : UN
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This report explores technological possibilities and opportunities for developing and developed countries to accelerate decoupling and reap environmental and economic benefits of increased resource productivity. It examines policy options successful in helping different countries improve resource productivity in various sectors of their economy, avoiding negative impacts on the environment. It does not seem possible for a global economy based on the current unsustainable patterns of resource use to continue into the future. Economic consequences of these patterns are already apparent in increases in resource prices, increased price volatility and disruption of environmental systems. The environment impacts are also leading to potentially irreversible changes to the world's ecosystems, often with direct effects on people and the economy - for example: damage to health, water shortages, loss of fish stocks or increased storm damage. This report shows that much of the policy design 'know-how' needed to achieve decoupling is present in terms of legislation, incentive systems, and institutional reform. Many countries have tried these out with tangible results, encouraging others to study and where appropriate replicate and scale up such practices and successes