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  • China's Technological Catch-Up Strategy

    Industrial Development, Energy Efficiency, and CO2 Emissions

    by Michael T. Rock, Michael Toman ...
    Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-owned enterprises in various industries alongside numerous small-scale, energy-intensive and polluting enterprises. Economic reforms beginning in 1979 led to the rapid expansion of these small-scale manufacturing enterprises in numerous energy-intensive ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Climate Change

    by Michael A. Toman ...
    Over the years, a large and growing literature on the economics of climate change has developed. Within this volume the contributors have included a wide range of journal essays that consider the impact of climate change on specific sectors; goods and services; the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation; and policy design for mitigation, including both domestic instruments and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Pollution Abatement Strategies in Central and Eastern Europe

    by Michael A. Toman ...
    Protecting environmental quality while pursuing economic development poses a particularly difficult challenge to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, where political and economic systems are changing rapidly following decades of environmental neglect and economic mismanagement. Advanced industrial nations also face difficult decisions about priorities and procedures for providing financial ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Climate Change Economics and Policy

    An RFF Anthology

    Edited by Michael A. Toman ...
    What are the potential adverse impacts of climate change? How can society determine the amount of protection against climate change that is warranted, given the benefits and costs of various policies? In concise, informative chapters, Climate Economics and Policy considers the key issues involved in one of the most important policy debates of our time. Beginning with an overview and policy history ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning

    Understanding Effective Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts

    Edited by Michael Osborne, Muir Houston, Nuala Toman ...
    Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practices in continuing education. It highlights the fact that the wide-ranging conclusions they draw have vital implications for this rapidly ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • India and Global Climate Change

    Perspectives on Economics and Policy from a Developing Country

    Edited by Michael A. Toman, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Shreekant Gupta ...
    Though the impact of climate change will most likely be greatest with the already poor and vulnerable populations in the developing world, much of the writing about the costs and benefits of different policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is by Western scholars, working in advanced industrialized economies. Drawing the majority of its contributions from authors based at Indian ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Scarcity and Growth Revisited

    Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium

    Edited by R. David Simpson, Michael A. Toman, Robert U. Ayres ...
    In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Assessing Surprises and Nonlinearities in Greenhouse Warming

    Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop

    Edited by Joel Darmstadter, Michael A. Toman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In 1992, Resources for the Future conducted a workshop concerning the issues of global climate change. This title, originally published in 1993, is a collection of the revised versions of the papers commissioned for the workshop with an added introduction and overview. Each paper emphasises the potential nonlinearities or surprises in physical effects caused by humans loading the atmosphere with ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Lincoln and Chicago

    by John Toman, Michael Frutig ...
    Abraham Lincoln and Chicago both generate countless books, but this is the first in-depth examination of the actual relationship between the Prairie State's biggest city and its most famous citizen.The Illinois Rail Splitter's influence can be felt across the Land of Lincoln, but his relationship with Chicago was pivotal in his journey to the national stage. Lincoln first came to Chicago in 1847, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Analyzing Nonrenewable Resource Supply

    by Douglas R. Bohi, Michael A. Toman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1984, Douglas A. Bohi and Michael A. Toman have produced a convenient reference source about disparate elements in the theory of nonrenewable resource supply and about general issues that arise when applying dynamic economic analysis. The authors emphasise the inherently dynamic nature of resource supply decisions, the effects of resource depletion on costs and behaviour, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Technology Options for Electricity Generation

    Economic and Environmental Factors

    by Hadi Dowlatabadi, Michael A. Toman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Environmental constraints and market uncertainties create new challenges for electricity generation. In this title, originally published in 1991, the authors present a simulation model with a capability for highly detailed activity to identify cost-minimising investment options under different assumptions about demand, costs, regulation, and other economic and environmental factors. Applying the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Economics of Sustainability

    by John C.V. Pezzey, Michael A. Toman ...
    Series series The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy
    Before the late 1980s, when the ideas of sustainability and sustainable development to the forefront of public debate, conventional, neo-classical economic thinking about development and growth had rarely given any consideration to the needs of future generations, or the sustainability of natural resource use. Defining sustainability broadly as intergenerational fairness in the long-term decision ... Read more

    $64.99 USD