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WIT Press Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment 2010 Edition by K. Aravossis, C. A. Brebbia, E. Kakaras
The current emphasis on sustainable development is a consequence of the general awareness of the need to solve numerous environmental problems resulting from our modern society. This book addresses the topic of Investment Assessment and Environmental Economics in an integrated way; in accordance with the principles of sustainability; considering social and environmental impacts of new investments. Bringing together papers from the First International Conference on Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment, papers encompass topic areas such as: Economy and the Environment; Investment Planning and Assessment; Environmental Economics and Entrepreneurship; Environmental Investment Planning; Sustainable Environmental Management; Environmental Impact Assessments and Investments; Environmental Performance Indicators; Environmental Management Systems; Legislation and Law Enforcement; Cost Benefits Analysis; Natural Resources Management; Social Issues and Environmental Policies; Risk Management in Environmental Investment; and Location Optimization. Table of Contents : Section 1: Economy and the environment Alternative management of waste of electrical and electronic equipment in Greece; Economic aspects of modern environmental policy issues: a step forward; Economic aspects and the sustainability impact of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games; Leveraging the economical benefits of sustainable building; Life cycle evaluation and economic considerations of the pyrolysis gasification of municipal solid waste in Singapore; Waste management costs in Greece: spatial patterns and causal factors; A model for estimating flood damage in Italy: preliminary results; Does global change matter? The case of industries in the Upper Danube catchment area Section 2: Environmental policies, planning and assessment A proposed methodological framework for the evaluation of corporate social responsibility; Integration of country energy system models in a Pan European framework for supporting EU policies; The failure of the Dutch MINAS policy: a transaction cost analysis; Environmental assessment of technology investments using the LCA Polygon framework; Effect of greenhouse gas emissions trading on investment decisions for biomass-to-energy production; Do as I do; International price of water; Environmental costs of hydropower plants; Institutional and legal provisions for the Clean Development Mechanism in South Africa; Risk sharing and capacity investment in the urban water sector in Europe Section 3: Cost-benefits analysis Minimization of fuel consumption through optimum material selection of a car frame production company; Costs and benefits of developing nature areas: regional versus national impact; Local development of small islands with intense specialisation in tourism: cost and benefits in the framework of sustainable development; Cost-benefit analysis: applications to restoration of rivers; The environmental impact of road investments: an economical analysis with an emphasis on by pass investments; Environmental Kuznets curves: environmental wealth and spending; On the pattern recognition of Ito processes in market price data Section 4: Natural resources management Typology of oil shocks: why 2004 is different; Decision support for long-term water resource management in semi-arid areas: insights from South Africa; Pricing for irrigation water on Japanese paddy-fields: applicability of stochastic choice model; Ecological capacity measurements as useful tools of planning land management in a lake district: Iawa Landscape Park case study Section 5: Environmental performance Sustainability performance of corporations: comparison of assessment methods; Clark County monitoring system; Design and implementation of a database for the estimation of environmental indicators in an input-output framework with the use of NAMEA tables; Evaluating jointness of multifunctional agriculture: the educational function of dairy farming in Japan