Valuing recreation and the environment

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Christian de Perthuis

"Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't take into account the policies that have already been implemented. Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative new perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their emissions and building an international carbon market"--

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Alexey Voinov

Modeling is a key component to sciences from mathematics to life science, including environmental and ecological studies. This book shows how models can be analyzed using simple math and software to generate meaningful qualitative descriptions of system dynamics.

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Cristiano Antonelli

"This book from Cristiano Antonelli provides a systematic account of recent advances in the economics of innovation. By integrating this account with the economics of technological change, the book elaborates an understanding of the paths and the sequence of determinants and effects of the introduction of new technologies.". "Many within the innovation economics community will appreciate this account, provided by a respected expert, but it is a book that also needs to be read by all those with an interest in economic theory."--BOOK JACKET.

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Elias G. Carayannis and Jeffrey M. Alexander

"Global/local networks coupling together different national innovation systems, and transnationally linking networks of knowledge producers, carriers and users, are becoming crucial components of the global, real and virtual, knowledge architectures and infrastructures. Global and Local Knowledge is a journey of insight and discovery in the emerging global "knowledge village". Perspectives from different parts of the world are presented to produce a new world view on how specialized knowledge can serve as the unit of reference for stocks and flows of a hybrid public/private, tacit/codified, tangible/virtual good that represents the building block of the knowledge economy."--Jacket.