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"Financing the Global Environment examines the financial techniques and strategies necessary to obtain funding to undertake infrastructure and environmental projects. Despite conventional notions that monies are typically not readily available for large-scale environmental projects, the book explains how this is usually not the case, and will provide the necessary steps, tools, and organizational methods necessary for successful project finance in any region. It demonstrates how the largest possible projects could be undertaken at the lowest possible cost and how a utility's excess operating income could be used to improve the system. Features: Presents methods for the sourcing of funds and for maximizing income Defines what types of income can be used for making debt service payments and how it can be estimated Explains the basic concepts of loans and debt, as well as the present value theory of money This book serves as a useful guide for practicing professionals, industry executives, and government officials who work with water and wastewater utilities and infrastructure and are involved with financial project preparation"--

Chapter 1 Financing the Global Environment Chapter 2 Measuring Income Chapter 3 Maximizing Cash Available for Debt Service Chapter 4 Loan Basics Chapter 5 Project Valuation Chapter 6 Financial Feasibility Chapter 7 Alternative Finance Options Chapter 8 Sources of Funds Chapter 9 Cost/Benefit Analysis Chapter 10 Tariff Design Chapter 11 Subsidies

This book addresses ways to provide the highest quality water services at the lowest possible cost, and examines the major finance issues that system managers face. It deals with grants, loans, municipal bonds, tariffs/rates and subsidies, as well as the major government finance programs offered by the Department of Agriculture and the EPA. It also provides managers with the tools to devise innovative financial strategies to make their systems much more efficient. This fully revised edition presents an easy-to-read guide for understanding the myriad options available for financing water and wastewater projects and how to evaluate the most appropriate options.

This is not your average textbook. It is not a compilation of dry facts and drier theories. I started looking into environmental finance issues about 25 years ago. In many cases, I was appalled at what I saw. This book is a reflection of those experiences. I come from Wall Street. I have seen how business deals with financial issues. Financial markets are highly efficient. Government has much to learn. Before Wall Street, I was in politics in New York State. Winston Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others that have been tried." He also said, "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." I am not so cynical, but I do see clearly that the exigencies of politics temper all good-hearted attempts to bring business-like efficiencies to environmental finance. I understand why a state legislator would vote for a grant program, even when it is wasteful and foolhardy to do so. I sympathize with them; but that is not going to stop my pointing out the folly of their actions. When colleagues asked me the working title of the book I was writing, I, of course, told them, "Finance Policy for Renewable Energy and a Sustainable Environment." Their next question invariably was, "When did you start writing fiction?" Their point is well taken. There is no finance policy for renewable energy. And, there is no finance policy for a sustainable environment. When I teach Environmental Finance, I often facetiously tell my class that they are listening to the world's greatest expert in environmental finance . . . under one theory that, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king! This point is also well taken. I have been practicing what I call "environmental finance" for the past 25 years.

Environmental finance is about creating the greatest environmental benefit for the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost. That is the first and most important principle listed in Finance Policy for Renewable Energy and a Sustainable Environment. Focusing on what the author considers to be the 23 principles of environmental finance, this text examines the key financial principles necessary to build strategies and adopt policies to deal effectively with environmental challenges. The text encourages making financial decisions based on science, not politics, and.

The ingenuity evidenced during the Renaissance was not just limited to the fine arts. A number of scientists and inventors also made astonishing breakthroughs in astronomy, medicine, physics, and more. Readers examine the scientific revolution, profiling Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo, and many other great thinkers who transformed the scientific and mechanical worlds.

Este artículo tiene dos propósitos, el primero es explicar de qué manera la construcción del archivo histórico es un acto de poder mediatizado por las relaciones de género y el segundo es hacer visible un grupo de mujeres cuya historia ha permanecido sin identificarse en la historiografía mexicana. Ambos hilos de esta historia se remontan a la década de la revolución mexicana, en particular al año de 1914. Se trata de una historia doblemente invisibilizada, una vez por ser una historia de mujeres y otra vez por ser de religiosas. El tema que guía el argumento es el testimonio sobre la violación de algunas de estas mujeres a manos de los soldados del Ejército Constitucionalista. El proceso de construcción de los testimonios y la información que contienen nos abren dos ventanas distintas y relacionadas sobre la historia de la revolución como guerra y la violencia como un fenómeno que tiene sexo.