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  • THE ECONOMICS OF THE TROPICAL TIMBER TRADE
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    THE ECONOMICS OF THE TROPICAL TIMBER TRADE
    EDWARD B BARBIER / JOANNE C. BURGESS BARBIER / JOSHUA BISHOP / BRUCE AYLWARD
    Originally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation. Based on a report prepared for the ITTO, it looks current and future market conditions at the time of publication, and assesses the impacts on current and future market conditions, and assesses the impacts on tr...

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  • PARADISE LOST?
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    PARADISE LOST?
    EDWARD B. BARBIER / JOANNE C. BURGESS BARBIER / CARL FOLKE
    Originally published in 1994, Paradise Lost? is the outcome of a unique collaboration between economists and ecologists initiated by the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The book examines how the loss of biodiversity is one of the most serious problems the world faces, and suggests that new, interdisciplinary thinking is required to safeguard both us a...

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  • AFTER THE GREEN REVOLUTION
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    AFTER THE GREEN REVOLUTION
    GORDON R. CONWAY / EDWARD B. BARBIER
    'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence o...

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  • ELEPHANTS, ECONOMICS AND IVORY
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    ELEPHANTS, ECONOMICS AND IVORY
    EDWARD B. BARBIER / JOANNE C. BURGESS / TIMOTHY M. SWANSON / DAVID W. PEARCE
    Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for rejoicing, but nothing is quite so simple. The authors of this book have looked at the o...

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  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    DAVID PEARCE / EDWARD BARBIER / ANIL MARKANDYA
    Blueprint for a Green Economy put the economics of the environment onto the public agenda. Its authors have now widened the issue by applying the principles of their earlier, ground-breaking work to the tangled issue of sustainable Third World development. They offer a definition of sustainable development in terms of not depleting natural resources and then examine its economi...

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  • BLUEPRINT 1
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    BLUEPRINT 1
    DAVID PEARCE / ANIL MARKANDYA / EDWARD BARBIER
    This report has been prepared by the London Environmental Economics Centre (LEEC). LEEC is a joint venture, established in 1988, by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the department of Economics of University College London (UCL). Popularly known as The Pearce Report, this book is a report prepared for the Department of the Environment. It de...

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  • ECONOMICS, NATURAL-RESOURCE SCARCITY AND DEVELOPMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    ECONOMICS, NATURAL-RESOURCE SCARCITY AND DEVELOPMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    EDWARD B BARBIER
    Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded. Using insights provided by environmentalism, ecology and thermo-dynamics, this book – first published in 1989 – outlines an economic approach to the use of natural resources and particularly to the problem of environmental degradation. Edward Barbier revi...

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  • A NEW BLUEPRINT FOR A GREEN ECONOMY
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    A NEW BLUEPRINT FOR A GREEN ECONOMY
    EDWARD B. BARBIER / ANIL MARKANDYA
    Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical policy measures for 'greening' modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable development. This new book, written by two of the Blueprint for a Green Economy authors, revisits and updates its main messages by asking, first, what has been achieved in the past twenty years, and s...

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