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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Author biography -- Introduction: Paying for Climate Change -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 The Lake People -- Chapter 2 The Beginnings -- Chapter 3 International Developments -- Chapter 4 Principles of Paying for Climate Change -- Chapter 5 The Price of Rising Sea Levels -- Chapter 6 Extreme Weather Events -- Chapter 7 Desiccation -- Chapter 8 Solar Energy -- Flotovoltaics -- Chapter 9 Locational Renewable Energy Sources -- Hydroelectric Power -- Wind Energy -- Geothermal -- Chapter 10 Nuclear Power -- Chapter 11 Natural Gas -- Chapter 12 Climate Finance Strategies -- Part I - Sources of Funds -- Government Funds -- Development Banks -- Capital Markets -- How to Access Private Capital -- Types of Risk -- Liquidity Risk -- Credit Risk -- Private Funds -- Conclusion -- Part II - Alternative Finance Strategies -- Four Techniques for Financing Projects -- Grants -- Subsidized Loans -- Market Rate Loans -- Loan Guarantees -- Chapter 13 The Price of Renewable Energy -- New Payment Structure #1 - "Adoption" -- New Payment Structure #2 - "Sponsorship" -- New Payment Structure #3 - "Nutrient Credit Trading" -- Chapter 14 Other Renewable Energy Financing -- The PACE Program -- Green Banks -- Part I -- Part II -- How to Access Private Capital -- Operations -- Chapter 15 Carbon and Agriculture -- Chapter 16 Tree Planting -- Chapter 17 Carbon and Transportation -- Tailpipes -- Zero Emission Vehicles -- Mass Transit or Sustainable Public Transportation -- Monorail -- Light Rail -- Maglev -- Chapter 18 Cap and Trade -- Chapter 19 Statewide or Regional Funds -- Statewide Funds -- Labeled Correctly -- Broad Based -- Reasonable -- Used Wisely -- Hidden Problems -- Broadly Used -- Regional Funds -- Chapter 20 Coastal Resiliency Finance -- Special Districts -- Seasonal Charges.

"The Price of Climate Change: Sustainable Financial Mechanisms presents a summary of the effects of global warming with specific emphasis on what these phenomena will cost and the price we must pay for trying to mitigate these processes. Some of these mitigation strategies include reducing our use of carbon by converting to non-carbon energy sources such as solar, wind, and nuclear, or lower-carbon sources such as natural gas. The book examines the financial implications of society adapting to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and desertification. Further, it addresses the costs to make buildings more resilient to climate change, such as flood considerations, improving durability against severe weather, bolstering insulation, and more. Sources of funding for any type of environmental projects, including those for climate change mitigation, are also examined. These include governmental budgets at the federal, state, and local levels, international development banks, international capital markets, and private funds. Features: Addresses global climate change issues from the standpoints of mitigation, adaptation, and resilience- and the funding mechanisms for each. Describes different types of energy sources as well as their respective costs, including nuclear, solar, natural gas, and more. Examines the effects of agriculture on climate change as well as the potential ways it can be used to help mitigate the issue. The book's straightforward approach will serve as a useful guide and reference for practicing professionals and can also be appreciated by the general public interested in climate change issues and mitigation strategies"--

"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 relationship between economic change and political and social unrest in LDCs is analysed in the disequilibrium tendencies of the dual economy. Data on economic behavior and environment of a large sample of rural South Vietnamese peasant households, collected in the early 1960s, are used for analysis, which reveals low economic rewards from traditional agricultural activities and diminished welfare levels of peasant households. (DSE)

The ability of divers to discriminate differences in weight and shape while working inside the one-atmosphere diving suit JIM was assessed by two experiments. In the first study five male operators each completed four series of discriminations among weights ranging from 5 to 0.5 lbs. (2.3 to 0.2 kg). The operators could discriminate a weight difference of 0.7 kg with 95% accuracy when in JIM, but were unable to exceed chance expectations when the weight difference dropped to 0.2 kg. The second study measured the capability of the JIM operators to identify correctly various objects under conditions of reduced visibility while under water in the JIM suit. The operators were able to identify correctly the object on 15 of 19 trials, primarily relying on tactile cues mediated through hand manipulators.