Environmental economics

While global challenges continue to reshape the here and now, public and corporate finance management needs to adapt quickly to increase the efficiency of institutions, enterprises and policies to face our new reality.

This book explores the concept of transforming the current macroeconomic system from one based on continuous growth that doesn't recognize the fundamental importance of Earth's natural support structures, to a system consistent with the basic views of biophysical economics that acknowledges that all real wealth ultimately derives from planetary resources, both renewable and non-renewable.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

Whether addressing pollution problems or helping protect a specific use, watershed associations are finding that the competition for funds is getting harder.

Eine Grundlagenlektüre mit fundierten Argumenten und Analysen für alle, die beim Thema Degrowth mitreden wollen: Der renommierte Ökonom und Degrowth-Experte liefert eine ökologische Kritik des kapitalistischen Wachstumswahns und zeigt, wie das System geändert werden muss, um sowohl nachhaltiger als auch gerechter zu werden.

Water use and conservation in the American West have long been shaped by a host of geographic, environmental, political and economic factors.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

Algal Bioreactors: Science, Engineering and Technology of Upstream Processes, Volume One, is part of a comprehensive two-volume set that provides all of the knowledge needed to design, develop, and operate algal bioreactors for the production of renewable resources.

Corporate Strategy and Sustainability is a substantially updated, detailed overview of sustainability issues for business and economics students.

Tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) are becoming more destructive.

Politicians stand at a crossroads where the path to green policies is fraught with political risks, as the immediate costs to society may overshadow the profound future benefits.

In this book key predictors of renewable feedstock adoption to achieve carbon neutrality in the European chemical industry are explored.

In this book key predictors of renewable feedstock adoption to achieve carbon neutrality in the European chemical industry are explored.

Drawing on political economy and economic pluralism, this book explores issues in sustainable economic development from a macro perspective.

Greening Our Economy for a Sustainable Future examines the green economy by balancing social needs, the environment, and the economy.

This publication explains how ADB's Environment Action Plan 2024-2030 (EAP) guides its strategic approach to tackling the triple planetary threats of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change to better support sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, 3rd edition is the most up-to-date revision of the fundamental reference for the biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic matter.

Explains the current state of play in relation to biodiversity loss and explores a sustainable path for the future.

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction of tree-covered habitats as an act of environmental vandalism.

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction of tree-covered habitats as an act of environmental vandalism.

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

In this Springer essential, you will learn how market-driven methods, innovations, and investments can achieve "e;Green Growth"e; without forgetting the needs of the three billion people who already lack these essentials today.

In this Springer essential, you will learn how market-driven methods, innovations, and investments can achieve "e;Green Growth"e; without forgetting the needs of the three billion people who already lack these essentials today.