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Abstract: What do we know about consumer motives , goals and disires? This provocative and important book provides insights for students, scholarsand practitioners who seek to understand the vital relationship between motivation and consumption

Abstract: SUSTAINABILITY ASSESMENT is now emerging asa more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability.

Abstract: This book examines the ongoing debate. Writing for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, leading experts address issue such as diffusion of technology, intellectual property rights, the Cartagena Protocol, impacts of international trade, capacity building and biotechnology research and regulation.

Abstract: Focusing onretailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. It challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use colour, light and display intoexcessive purchases, or even driven by their desires into acts of theft.

Abstract: Leading the way towards answering this question, The Ethical Consumer is an indispensable introduction to the subject. Exploring areas like boycotts and fair trade projects, it gathers together the diverse experiences of scholars, campaigners and business practitioners from the international community.

Abstract: In this book, Rob Dellink shows he is a skillful applied modeller of environment-economy interactions. The book includes three stylized models that will prove to be a great help for students who want to understand the basics of environmental policy analysis in general equilibrium models.

Abstract: This book examines alternative theories and the empirical testing of trade-offs we make in life among work, leisure, travel and personal maintenance actions and how our plans relate to lenght of stay, attractions, destinations, accomodation and activities, and investigates how marketing strategies affect consumer plans.

Abstract: While many rural areas continue to experience depopulation and economic declfacing rapid in-migration, as well as employment and income growth. Much of this growth is due to the presence and use of amenity resources, broadly defined as qualities of a region that make it an attractive place to live and work. Rather than extracting natural resources for external markets, these communities have begun to build economies based on promoting environmental quality.

Abstract: Technological change plays a crucial role in analizing energy efficency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not invest in best-practice technologies. The author offers important new explanations for this energy-efficiency paradox.

Abstract: Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is around 70 years old if we date its first practical application to water resources developments in the USA in the 1930s. The theory of CBA is much older and its origins can be more precisely set in the 1840s with the writings of the French engineer and economist Jules Dupuit.

Abstract: Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws on their in-depth experience in the field of energy, environment, and economics, the authors develop a comprehensive analytical framework. They applay their methodology to four detailed studies of Sri Lanka's energy sector, wich illustrate how to address key energy and environmental policy issues found in many developing counties today. Supplementary case ezamples are presented which also draw on many other countries in Asia and Africa.

Abstract: How can the poorer countries of the world be helped themselves trough freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book, Nobel prize-winning economist Stiglitz and his co-author Charlton present a radical new economic model, designed to open up markets in a way that will allow them to flourish.

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