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Subject(s)

• Environmental policy [Browse]
• Sustainable development [Browse]
• Environmental protection [Browse]

Editor

• Quah, Euston [Browse]
• Schubert, Renate, 1955- [Browse]

Related name

• ProQuest (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• Sustainable development (Singapore). [More in this series]
• Springer reference [More in this series]
• Sustainable development

Summary note

The primary aim of this reference volume is to provide an accessible and comprehensive review of current methods used to address resource evaluation and environmental as well as climate issues, and in a manner easily understood by decision-makers and the non-economists interested in environmental policy matters. Theoretical insight and empirical observations from various countries will be presented and recommendations on sustainable environmental decision-making will be given. Natural resource managers, environmental and climate decision-makers, government policy makers, and economics scholars will all find this volume to be an essential reference. .

Notes

Includes index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents

• Measurement and valuation of environmental benefits and costs
• Management of natural resources and conflicts (water as example)
• Sustainable Decision-Making with respect to transport and mobility
• Sustainable Decision-Making related to waste management
• Sustainable Decision-Making with respect to buildings and housing
• Limitations to making sustainable environmental decisions
• Choice architecture for sustainable energy decisions
• Are Defaults Enhancing Sustainable Decisions Related to Electricity Use?
• Energy-Using Durables: More Sustainability Through Information or Regulation?
• Electricity Storage: How to Incentivize Innovation and Investment.

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ISBN

• 9789811592874 ((electronic bk.))
• 981159287X ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1257084724

Doi

• 10.1007/978-981-15-9287-4

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