1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461706703321

Autore

Perthuis Christian de

Titolo

Green capital : a new perspective on growth / / Christian de Perthuis, and Pierre-Andre Jouvet ; translated by Michael Westlake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-231-54036-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Environmental economics

Sustainable development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Color of Growth -- 2 The Spaceship Problem -- 3 Degrowth -- 4 Introducing the Environment into the Calculation of Wealth -- 5 "Natural Capital" Revisited -- 6 Hotelling -- 7 Nature Has No Price -- 8 Beyond Hotelling -- 9 Water, the Shepherd, and the Owner -- 10 How Much Is Your Genome Worth? -- 11 The Enhancement of Biodiversity -- 12 Climate Change -- 13 International Climate Negotiations -- 14 The "Energy Transition" -- 15 The Inescapable Question of the Price of Energy -- 16 Nuclear Energy -- 17 Growth-Generating Innovations -- 18 Planning or the Market -- 19 European Strategy -- Conclusion: Green Capital, Green Capitalism? -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity). Although we can find substitutes for scarce natural resources, we cannot replace a natural regulatory system, which is incredibly complex. It is therefore critical that we introduce a new price into the economy that measures the costs of damage to these regulatory functions. This change in



perspective justifies such innovations as the carbon tax, which addresses not the scarcity of carbon but the inability of the atmosphere to absorb large amounts of carbon without upsetting the climate system. Brokering a sustainable peace between ecology and the economy, Green Capital describes a range of valuation schemes and their contribution to the goals of green capitalism, proposing a new approach to natural resources that benefits both businesses and the environment.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829944303321

Titolo

Mechanisms and biological significance of pulsatile hormone release [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; New York, : Wiley, 2000

ISBN

1-280-27261-9

9786610272617

0-470-66825-3

0-470-87078-8

0-470-87079-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Novartis Foundation symposium ; ; 227

Disciplina

572

612.4/05

612.405

Soggetti

Hormones - Secretion

Biological rhythms - Molecular aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Symposium on Mechanisms and Biological Significance of Pulsatile Hormone Secretion, held at the Novartis Foundation, London, 2-4 March 1999"--P. v.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

MECHANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PULSATILE HORMONE SECRETION; Contents; Participants; Introduction; Rhythmic transcription: the molecular basis of oscillatory melatonin synthesis; Discussion; The frequency encoding of pulsatility; Discussion; Timing-



dependent modulation of insulin mitogenic versus metabolic signalling; Discussion; Growth hormone pulse-activated STAT5 signalling: a unique regulatory mechanism governing sexual dimorphism of liver gene expression; Discussion; Orderliness of hormone release; Discussion

Prediction and significance of the temporal pattern of hormone secretion in disease states Discussion; Therapeutic implications of circadian rhythms in cancer patients; Discussion; Pathophysiology of human circadian rhythms; Discussion; Nature of altered pulsatile hormone release and neuroendocrine network signalling in human ageing: clinical studies of the somatotropic, gonadotropic, corticotropic and insulin axes; Discussion; Pulsatile insulin secretion; Discussion; Control of growth hormone (GH) release by GH secretagogues; Discussion

Pulsatile parathyroid hormone secretion in health and diseaseDiscussion; Significance of pulsatility in the HPA axis; Discussion; Closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This exciting book brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of experts to discuss the importance of pulsatile signalling in the induction of biological responses. Coverage includes the basic mechanisms involved in hormone pulsatility, the significance of pulsatility in normal and disease conditions, the relevance of circadian rhythms, changes with ageing, and detailed consideration of specific peptide hormone systems. This book includes contributions from professionals working in both basic and clinical research and reveals much new and exciting work in this area and promis