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1. Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation

   The People's Republic of China's Path to a Brighter Future

   Edited by Timothy Swanson, Tun Lin

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today? The...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Elephants, Economics and Ivory

   By Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson, David W. Pearce

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
3. Global Action for Biodiversity

   An International Framework for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity

   By Timothy Swanson

   At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the nations of the world adopted the convention on Biological Diversity. Since then, over 160 countries have ratified the Convention, three Conferences of the Parties have taken place and a permanent secretariat has been established. Despite this, there remains a...

   Published April 30th 1997 by Routledge