Books by David Pearce

How are the economic values of water and water quality accounted for in policy and project appraisal? This important book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in water resources management throughout Europe and North America, along with an examination of current applications.

"… a well-crafted, enjoyable and intriguing mystery that, for better or worse, is a little heavy on the protagonist's breast-level view of the world." -IndieReaderIt's easy to be a nobody when you've got nothing to lose, but with his life and potential redemption on the line, can Monk be a somebody people will remember?A dead man's money is just waiting to be had. A band of fools and a nobody named Monk Buttman unwittingly find themselves caught in a web of murder and revenge between two unseen factions using them as bait. After a good day ends in murder, Monk is tasked with finding the killer. Why him? He's a nobody! Stuck between powerful forces he can neither control or understand, Monk must survive both the fools and those pulling the strings while also dealing with the affections of two very different women, the troubled Agnes and the disaffected Judith, not to mention the irritation of his erstwhile partner, Mr. Jones. A beating forces Monk to question his own motives and to confront the past that led him to hide in LA. With love and life on the line, Monk must use his wits and guile for all of them to survive.

Explains in non-technical terms how economic cost-benefit analysis techniques can be applied to biodiversity loss, and how they can provide a measurement for the efficiency of conservation efforts. David Pearce has also written "Blueprint for a Green Economy".

Focuses on developing country problems where the neglect of environmental quality is costing nations dear. This book shows that the original formulation of the meaning of sustainable development has flourished into whole theories of how to achieve sustainability and how to measure a sustainable path for modern economies.

Shows how progress towards sustainability in the UK can be measured. This title sets out the conditions for sustainable development and the measures of economic progress these imply, looking at the main areas of economic activity to which the measures are applicable.

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 tackling the issues involved in global warming, ozone layer depletion, environmental degradation in the Third World, population, and rain forests.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the latest developments in heritage preservation including 60 case histories of successful developments over the last decade and sets out an action agenda for the future.

Demonstrates the ways in which elements in our environment under threat from many forms of pollution can be costed. This book shows ways in which governments are able to construct systems of taxation which would both reduce pollution by making it too costly and generate revenue for cleaning up much of the damage.

Based on case histories in the Third World, this book is an expansion of the authors' previous book "Blueprint for a Green Economy". It addresses the issues of equity between rich and poor nations and the economics of sustainable natural resource management.