Tag: Environmental Policy
By Dr. Brian Roach Twenty years since the initial publication, the Fifth Edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach by Jonathan M. Harris and Brian Roach is now available from Routledge. The text provides coverage of core theoretical concepts from environmental and ecological economics, along with topical chapters on climate change, fisheries, […]
By Zhang Yifei, Sheng Li and Yuxi Luo Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 26 December 2018
By Frank Ackerman Anthem Press, 2017 208 pages, hardcover: $48.99 Order from Amazon
By Frank Ackerman Zed Books, 2009 (distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan) 160 pages, paperback: $20.95 Order from Palgrave Macmillan or Amazon “A progressive economist well-versed in the literature of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other scientists and scientific groups fearful of climate change impacts, Ackerman offers up a practical and useful response to […]
By Frank Ackerman Island Press, 2008; 352 pages, Hardcover, $50.00; Paperback: $25.00 Order from Island Press Order from Amazon “Cost-benefit analysis” is a term that is used so frequently we rarely stop to think about it. But relying on it can lead to some dubious conclusions, as Frank Ackerman points out in this eye-opening book. Inventing dollar […]
By Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling The New Press, 2004; 288 pages, Hardcover, $25.95; Paperback, $16.95 Order from Amazon Order from The New Press “How does one put a cost on a human life? And what effect does air pollution have on our health? Ackerman and Heinzerling focus on such questions in this volume, a […]
By Frank Ackerman Press, Washington, DC, 1997 Hardcover: $35.00; Paperback: $19.95, 210 pages For order information (hardcover), click here. For order information (paperback), click here Ackerman’s thoughtful, sure-to-be-controversial study lifts the debate over the merits of recycling to a new level . . .” — PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY “Remarkably sober, readable, and revealing. Essential for those connected to […]