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Social and Economic Development -
Eds. Salustiano del Campo ,Tomoko Hamada, Giancarlo Barbiroli, Saskia Sassen, Eleonora Barbieri-Masini, Paul Nchoji Nkwi, Owen Sichone, Abubakar Momoh
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Introduction to Sustainable Development -
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"The Tragedy of the Commons" by Garrett Hardin, 1968'
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Endogenous Growth and Sustainable Development: A Critical Assessment
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Human Capital for Sustainable Economic Development
Social Capital Research: A Contested State-of the-Art
Institutional and Human Resources for Sustainability
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Sustainable Cities: A Minimum Agenda
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International Competitiveness and Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development: Legal Issues and Incentives
The Future of Sustainable Development
Biophysical Constraints to Economic Growth
The Limits of Capital Substitution: Strong Vs Weak Sustainability
Adaptive Management: Strategies for Coping with Change and Uncertainty
Management of Technological Resources for Sustainable Development
The Precautionary Principal in Sustainable Environmental Management
Cultivated Capital: Agriculture, Food Systems, and Sustainable Development
Global Warming, Climate Change, and Sustainability
Advanced Sustainability Analysis
Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development
Environmental Economics and Sustainability in the Age of Global Change
Civil Economy and Civilized Economics:Essentials for Sustainable Development
The Economics of Ecology and Circulation for Coexistence Between Humanity and Nature
Natural Resources and Ecological Tax Reform
Accounting For Sustainability:Greening the National Accounts
Implementing Sustainable Development in a Changing World
Growth, Sustainability, and the Power of Scale
Sustainable Consumption Indicators
Environment and Development -
Eds. Teng Teng, Ding Yifan
Environment and Development
Approaching Sustainable Development from Different Angles
Scientific Justification for Environmental and Ecological Sustainable Development
Biological and Biogeochemical Approaches to Environmental and Ecological Sustainable Development
Environmental, Economic, and Ecological Sustainable Development
Social Aspects of Environmental and Ecological Sustainable Development
International Coordination of Scientific Efforts in Support of Environmental and Ecological Sustainable Development
Multidisciplinary Approaches to New Pathways to Sustainable Development
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Current Views of Global Carrying Capacity
Social and Economic Disparities
The International Poverty Trap
Impacts of Poverty and an Inability to Manage the Environment
Impact of Affluence and Overexploitation of Natural Resources
Mechanisms for Improving Economic and Industrial Growth in Developing Countries
Responses to the Challenges of Disparities and Unsustainable Use of Natural Resources
Strategies for Rational Use of Natural Resources
Improved By-Product Recovery, Recycling, and Reuse
Development of Early Warning Systems to Alert Governments to Major Changes in Resource Use
Raw Materials Use Reduction, Replacement, and Recycling
Capacity for Developing Innovative Production Technologies
Narrowing Disparities Using Taxation and Other Economic Incentives and Disincentives
Minimizing Disparities by Changing Public Attitudes and Perceptions, and by Improving Education and Public Awareness
Environmental Economics and Ecobusiness
Conceptual Issues Including Environmental, Natural Resources, and Ecological Accounting
Physical and Monetary Environmental Accounting
Environmental Accounting by Satellite Accounting
Integrated National and Environmental Economic Accounting
Environmental Globalism and Green Consumers
Ecobusiness Management and Globalization of Ecobusiness
Need for Ecoenterprise and Ecotechnologies
Environmental Values and Ethics
Ethical Dimensions of the Environmental Crisis
Anthropocentric Ethical Theories: Relations with Non-Human Beings
Biocentric Ethical Theories
Deep Ecology: from Duty to Ecological Consciousness
Ecofeminism: Intra-Generational and Intergenerational Equity
Other Important Future Environmental Issues
Efficiency
Local, National, Regional, and Global Links in Ecological Environmental Management
The Urbanizing World
Environment And Development - Overall Recommendations And Conclusions
Economics of Peace and Security -
Eds. James K.Galbraith, Jurgen Brauer, Lucy L. Webster
The Evolving Economics of War and Peace
War, Peace, and Economists
Economics of Military Expenditures
Determinants of Military Expenditure
The Defense Budget Process
Military Procurement and Technological Change
The Concept of a Peace Dividend
Patterns of Military Spending after the Cold War
The Fate of the State
Economics of Peace Processes
The Effect of Ending Hostilities on Output and Employment
Economic Dimensions of Peace Agreements
Economic Conversion, Demobilization and Reintegration
Building Institutions for Peacemaking and Peacekeeping
Peace-Keeping Operations
Economics as an Instrument of Peace or Cause of War
Economics of Global Threats
The Logic of Threat and Deterrence Today
The Economics of Chemical and Biological Weapons
Global and Regional Security Alliances
Economics of Arms and Development
The Military Dimension of North-South Trade
Effects of Arms Races and War on Development
Arms Industry and the Globalization Process
Microeconomics: Past, Present, and Future
Economics Interactions with Other Disciplines -
Ed. John M. Gowdy
Economics Interactions With Other Disciplines
Issues in Resource Allocation to Health Care
Costs of Health Care Throughout the World
Sources of Health Care Funding Throughout the Globe
Health Economics in Developing Countries
Maximizing Health Impact Through Resource Allocation
Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Health: A Review of the Contending Issues
Environmental Economics
Externalities, Efficiency and Equity
Designing Instruments for Resource and Environmental Policy
International Trade and Policy Co-ordination
Sustainable Development, Growth Theory, Environmental Kuznets Curves, and Discounting
Economic Analysis of Climate Change
Economic Valuation and Cost-Benefit Analysis
An Economic Theoretical Perspective on Green and Sustainable National Income
On The Economics of Non-Renewable Resources
Economics of Renewable Natural Resources
The Economics of Land-Use Change
Environmental Stocks and Flows
The Valuation Problem and Non-Market Valuation Theories
Energy and the Macroeconomy
Sustainability Concepts in Ecological Economics
Nexus of Ecological Economics and Ecosystem Management
Identification of Ecological Economics Issues
Participatory Development Model for Sustainable Resource Management
Indicators of Human Consequences for Ecological Economic Planning and Policy
Feminist Ecological Economics
Political Arithmetick: Problems with GDP as an Indicator of Economic Progress
Natural Resource Economics
Engineering Economics
The World Financial Crisis and Money Systems from a Green Perspective
International Sustainable Development Law -
Eds. A. F. Munir Maniruzzaman, Aaron Schwabach, Arthur John Cockfield, A.Dan Tarlock, John C. Dernbach, Gabriela Maria Kutting
Differing Conceptions of Development and the Content of International Development Law
The Nature and Sources of International Development Law
The Concept of International Development Law
Participants and their Role in the Development of International Development Law
International Development Law and Public International Law
The Principle of Sustainable Development in International Development Law
Regulation of Foreign Investment
The Generalised System of Preferences in International Trade
Controlling Corruption in International Business: The International Legal Framework
Development Law Capacity Building: Training Legal Professionals for Development
Dispute Resolution and Development
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