Environmental economics

First Published in 2011.

To understand China's climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the Kyoto Protocol; it stubbornly refuses to accept any emission cutting obligations, but has gradually taken the lead in developing renewable energies and carbon trading business; it accuses western countries of their hypocrisy and irresponsibility, but ironically maintains close cooperation with them on low-carbon projects; it fears climate mitigation commitments may hamper the economic growth, but meanwhile spends most lavishly on the research and development of clean energy and other green technologies.

The four decades of neoliberalism, globalisation and financialisation have produced crises - financial and pandemic - and rising inequality.

The growing inequality in the global economy across the planet is reaching unprecedented levels.

Originally published in 1982.

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations.

This volume examines how international cooperation can support implementation of domestic climate policies in developing countries.

This academic book critically examines the concept of sustainable futures and its interdependence with the policy framework of Green New Deals.

Explores how dictators maintain their grip on power by seizing control of oil, metals, and minerals production.

This book investigates the role of climate-induced innovation and climate change mitigation technologies in reducing the negative impact of climate change.

This book emphasizes resource use and efficiency in the agricultural sector and offers facts and analytical concepts of interest to welfare economists, sociologists, and agricultural policy makers.

In America's arid southwest, climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture, urban growth, electricity generation, water-based recreation, and environmental protections.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

Unlike existing books on the topic that cover more on non-economic aspects of natural disasters, this book covers economic aspects of natural disasters viz damage assessment, risk management and resilience.

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.

If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development.

Buying and Selling the Environment: How to Design and Implement a PES Scheme provides a guide to the design and implementation of PES schemes that 'mimic' market processes, including three key elements: the estimation of the demand for environmental services, an understanding of the costs of supply, and how to predict the productivity of actions taken.

This book challenges the view that Run- of-River hydropower dams are green, clean and renewable.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland's economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention.

This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore platforms in European marine locations.

Rules in the Making represents an attempt to revolutionize ways of thinking about regulatory decision-making.

This title was first published in 2002: The interrelationship between international trade and the environment has become the subject of much heated debate.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

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This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning?

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years' rotations in forestry.

Due to the adverse outcomes of the recent global recession and the public deficit crisis in the USA and Europe, Western companies can expect flattening or declining sales in their domestic markets.

This book outlines the latest trends in the use of multicriteria analysis in agriculture by highlighting recent applications for modeling agricultural decision-making.

Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century.

Sustainability is part of every aspect of our life, with climate concerns shaping the future.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

The 2007-2008 financial crisis exposed the shortcomings of mainstream economic theory with economists unprepared to deal with it.

The central theme of this book is the relationship between the regulation of energy production and environmental regulation.

Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world.

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our "e;petroleum economy.

The economics of sustainability is much more complex than the neoclassical (Newtonian) economic approach to economic efficiency.