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 Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth's limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book's more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.

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 Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth's limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book's more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.

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, it explores the potential impact of climate change on a variety of domains, including water resources, agriculture, and forests. The contributors then provide assessments of policies that will affect greenhouse gas emissions, including electricity restructuring, carbon sequestration in forests, and early reduction programs. In considering both domestic and international policy options, the authors examine command and control strategies, energy efficiency opportunities, taxes, emissions trading, subsidy reform, and inducements for technological progress. Both policymakers and the general public will find this volume to be a convenient and authoritative guide to climate change risk and policy. It is a useful resource for professional education programs, and an important addition for college courses in environmental economics and environmental studies. Climate Economics and Policy is a collection of Issue Briefs, prepared by the staff of Resources for the Future (RFF) and outside experts. Many are adapted from pieces originally disseminated on Weathervane, RFF s acclaimed web site on global climate change.

Postgraduate students often have difficulty getting financial support to pursue their studies. Join three young women as they begin their PhD studies in London where accommodation is particularly expensive. Sally will focus on molecular biology, Mandy on education and Kalpa on pharmacology. Their subjects are as diverse as they are, but the trio soon discover that they have several things in common while sharing a flat. A balance is required between the desire to develop their careers and the need to deliver the future expectations of the males in their lives. Their families are supportive, but is there a limit to how much they can, or should, get involved? Admire Mandy's negotiating skills as she finds a way to survive financially in her capital city and see how supportive Kalpa's family can be. Sally's scientific research takes her to New York and the jet-set world of commerce, but will she be able to hang on to Adam, the love of her life? Will any of them get married? If so, to whom and under what circumstances?

It is well known that reducing calorie intake extends life dramatically, although few would volunteer to go on the starvation diets necessary to achieve this. But what if a doctor's research made a drug that could achieve the same thing while eating a normal diet? Return to September 1990 when five young men share accommodation in the East End for their first year of study at London University. Follow them for 22 more years as they meet up regularly while each pursues a career -as a research doctor, an army officer, a banker, a civil servant and a politician. Will the old flatmates be interested personally or professionally in having access to such a novel medicine once it has been discovered? Follow the five ex-students as their different careers interact in unexpected ways to alter their life expectancy far more than anyone could have anticipated.

Student accommodation is expensive in London, but Peter needs to find a way to keep his landlady happy and his rent low. Admire his prowess and negotiating skills as he and his fellow inhabitants benefit year after year from a convenient, if somewhat unconventional, arrangement. Tim, short in stature but big in ideas, joins Peter in taking their different fields of scientific research into the world of commerce. Follow them as they jet from one exotic international meeting to the next. With success comes risk and they may need to call upon flatmate Richard for help just as soon as he has joined the police force. Computer skills from the fourth flatmate, Ian complete the household team and may be critical. Over the years, female visitors to the flat are many and varied but who will be there at the end and who will be attached to whom? And whose heart will be broken?

Join Kevin as he contemplates taking on student loans to allow him to escape from a desperately inadequate family background. His financial situation will contrast with those of Sebastian and Hugh, the two flatmates he is allocated to by London Lodging Bureau. The friendship of the three boys is challenged by the sudden appearance of the 2008 recession, but they discover a collective, innovative solution with the help of Sebastian's aristocratic father, James. Kevin then finds that he is able to pursue his desire for scientific research in genetics, along with his desire for Sylvie (or is it Felicity?). There's definitely an Entente cordiale with a major role for Kevin's mother along the way before the surprising conclusion with implications for them all.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!