- ISBN: 9781845641122 | 1845641124
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/28/2008
| Economy and the environment | |
| Decision Aid Framework For Investments in Environment (DAFFIE). Investing in the environment; when is it too much? | p. 3 |
| Value and price: a transdisciplinary approach to urban water management | p. 11 |
| Tariff regulation of the integrated water service: an Italian case | p. 21 |
| Reducing diffuse water pollution by tailoring incentives to region specific requirements: empirical study for the Burdekin River basin (Australia) | p. 31 |
| A productivity analysis of the Italian gas retail market | p. 43 |
| A case study: the approach to the integrated and cooperative management of the water resources of the Maputo River Basin by Mocambique, Swaziland and South Africa | p. 53 |
| Environmental policies, planning and assessment | |
| Assessing the external costs and the economic viability of the Greek steel industry | p. 65 |
| Environmental and climate risks in financial analysis | p. 75 |
| Evaluation and land use planning process of a high population growth rate municipality: Los Cabos, Mexico | p. 87 |
| Estimations of costs for dismantling, decommissioning and associated waste management of nuclear facilities, and associated impact on decision processes, functioning of markets and the distribution of responsibilities between generations | p. 97 |
| Visualization service for grid-oriented applications of natural disasters | p. 105 |
| Beach users' aesthetic and economic evaluation of a "minor change" to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales | p. 115 |
| The contribution of asset management to climate change policies | p. 127 |
| Market-based instruments in South Africa: a review | p. 137 |
| Cost benefits analysis | |
| Integrated assessment of flood protection measures in the context of climate change: hydraulic modelling and economic approach | p. 149 |
| A projection of BIPV systems in Taiwan: costs versus benefits | p. 161 |
| Ways to deal with the 'temporary' value of cost benefit analysis | p. 171 |
| Natural resources management | |
| An approach to a methodology for ecological valuation of environmental quality | p. 183 |
| Point to non-point phosphorus trading in the South Nation River watershed | p. 189 |
| Marble quarrying: an energy and waste intensive activity in the production of building materials | p. 197 |
| Sustainable management of artisanal fisheries in developing countries; the need for expert systems: the case of the Pechakour Expert System (PES) | p. 209 |
| Environmental performance | |
| Sustainability performance of economic sectors based on thermodynamic indicators | p. 221 |
| The influence of regional autonomist government on the territory environmental and economic performances | p. 231 |
| How to find the most practical ecosystem management plan | p. 241 |
| Social issues and environmental policies | |
| A study on the corporate social responsibility reports of Greek companies and the use of alternative evaluation methodologies | p. 255 |
| An empirical study of what institutions of higher education in the UK consider to be their corporate social responsibility | p. 263 |
| Review of on-site and communal water and sanitation systems for remote communities | p. 275 |
| Policies to mitigate the damage from coastal natural disasters: preparing southeastern U.S. coastal communities | p. 285 |
| In the absence of their men: Women and forest management in the Mid-hills of Nepal | p. 295 |
| The marketing of apples produced in Chihuahua, Mexico against the American Giant: a case of dumping | p. 305 |
| Author Index | p. 315 |
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