Environment and Resources Commission on Geoscienc:Author-ccebook-Valuable English Books

Assigning Economic Value to Natural Resources

Author: Environment, and Resources Commission on Geoscienc
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: resources, natural, value, economic, assigning
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $54.75
ISBN-10: 0309051436
ISBN-13: 9780309051439

There has been a lot of discussion among policymakers, particularly within the Clinton Administration, about how to make U.S. economic indicators, such as GNP, more accurately reflect the state of the environment. This book explores the major issues and controversies involved in incorporating natural resources and the environment into economic accounts. The first section of the volume, based largely on a three-day workshop of experts in the field, explains the possibilities and pitfalls in so-called "green" accounting. This is followed by a selection of nine individually authored papers, inclu

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The Value of Urban Design

Author: Commission for Architecture the Built Environment
Publisher: Institution of Civil Engineers Publishing
Keywords: design, urban, value
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0727729810
ISBN-13: 9780727729811

Good urban design offers strong competitive advantages and does not necessarily cost more to deliver. This ground-breaking report examines the way in which superior urban design adds value by increasing the economic viability of development and by delivering social and environmental benefits.

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Our Common Future (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Author: World Commission On Environment and Development
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reference, paperback, oxford, future, common
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1987-05-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 019282080X
ISBN-13: 9780192820808

In 1983, the U.N. General Assembly created the World Commission on Environment and Development, an independent committee of twenty-two members, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway. Designed to examine global environment and development to the year 2000 and beyond, the commission seeks to reassess critical problems, to formulate realistic proposals for solving them, and to raise the level of understanding and commitment to the issues of environment and development. Rather than presenting a gloom and doom report about the destruction of natural resources, Our Common Fu

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Amazonia Without Myths

Author: Commission on Development and Environment for Amaz
Publisher: Books for Business
Keywords: myths, amazonia
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2001-12
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0894991191
ISBN-13: 9780894991196

This report, prepared by the Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia at the initiative of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty and supported by the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, is based on the concept of an Amazonia that exists above and beyond the world of fantasy and myth: an Amazonia of flesh and blood, of human toil, of human history, of human faces and hopes, and future human beings. It is an analysis based not only on the experiences and technologies of today’’s world but also, and with greater emphasis, on the wisdom accumulat