The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique - a form of 'environ-metrics' - to discover the true causes of an…

Focusing on global environmental threats, this book describes the reasons for using economic approaches to common resources like climate, ozone and biodiversity. It then looks at the economic ways of…

First published in 1978, The Valuation of Social Cost is concerned both with the idea, and with the practical problems, of placing monetary values on ‘intangible’, non-marketed goods, such as…

""A Review of Canadian Botany: From 1800 to 1895"" is a comprehensive survey of the development of botany in Canada during the 19th century. Written by David Pearce Penhallow, a…

Published in 1977, this is a detailed account of the results of controversial methods as they were applied in a major company, when twenty-one managers came together for eight months…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

The volume contains 2 invited addresses and 21 selectedpapers covering such topics as:- Logical foundations of logic programming andknowledge-based systems,- Automated theorem proving,- Partial and dynamic logics,- Systems of nonmonotonic…

Money brings power, which leads those with money to believe they know best. Monk’s not so sure, but foolishly allows himself to be sucked into a secret plot by wealthy…