Population, Resources and the Environment: The Critical Challenges

Business & Money

Norman Myers

Economics

U N Population Fund

Definitive guide to a planet in critical transition, providing a blueprint for our survival Maps and analyses our living planet at a point in its evolution, as we humans threaten to disrupt and exhaust its life-support systems Shows what a complex and magnificent world we have inherited, how it works and what bad stewards we have been Explains how we can mend our ways and re-dress the situation Divided into seven topics, this book takes a clear and structured approach, allowing the reader to examine any critical area of concern

The New Gaia Atlas of Planet Management

Gardners Books

<p>Excerpt from the Executive Summary: Subsidies are a prime feature of our economic landscape. That much is well understood. Not so widely recognized are "perverse" subsidies, definable here as exerting adverse effects on both the economy and the environment in the long run. This report documents the problem of perverse subsidies in five main subsidy sectors: agriculture, fossil fuels/nuclear energy, road transportation, water and fisheries. Total subsides in these sectors, plus a few others, have long been thought to be around $1 trillion worldwide per year, which means that subsidies play a prime role in the functioning of the global economy. If perverse subsidies amount to a sizeable proportion of subsidies overall, they exert a significantly distortive impact on the global economy.</p>

Perverse Subsidies: Taxes Undercutting Our Economies and Environments

Jennifer Kent

International Institute for Sustainable Development

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