Environmental economics

Dangerous climate change is coming.

This work proposes a framework based on the concept of a fair distribution of environmental space to include the diverse needs of North and South.

This volume explores the dynamics of urbanisation in Northeast India.

The book examines the trade liberalization measures, which were initiated in India during 1991 and which focused on manufacturing industries.

In this primer the authors provide an unintimidating introduction to the main techniques of choice analysis.

This volume contains papers presented in a workshop of international experts in September 2008 in Berlin.

This book presents fresh research on how Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), patterns of clustering, digitalization and innovation policies, interact and influence India's industrialisation and its greening or sustainability.

In the last decade, the world has grown richer and produced more food than ever before.

This title, first published in 1990, is intended to assess the impact of national environmental control policies on international trade and competitiveness in general, and, in particular, the impact of differential environmental control policies on the international trade and competiveness of the two industrialized nations, Germany and the United States.

Global climate change is one of the challenges ever to confront humanity with the largest scale, widest scope and most far-reaching influence.

Originally published in 1972, this volume, supplemented extensively with maps and tables, and employing sophisticated institutional and empirical analyses, discusses a number of important issues relating to the viability of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the natural environment.

Arne Bünger leistet mit den Ergebnissen seiner Untersuchungen der Innovations- und Adaptionsfähigkeit, der Nachhaltigkeitsorientierung sowie der Identifizierung von verschiedenen Akteurstypen in der Schweine- und Geflügelproduktion einerseits und der Algen- und Insektenproduktion andererseits einen Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis von sozio-technischen Transformationen und stärkt den bislang unterrepräsentierten Raum- und Akteursbezug in der Transformationsforschung.

Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.

This book traces the development-environment discourse in India and examines the multi-layered interaction between society and nature in the light of the role of the state, judiciary and the civil society.

Der Begriff "Kreativität" wird in der Regel unmittelbar mit dem künstlerischen und literarischen Schaffen assoziiert.

This edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities.

Using Scanner Data for Food Policy Research is a practitioners' guide to using and interpreting scanner data obtained from stores and households in policy research.

This book is both a discussion of key decisions Alaskans must make in coming years and a case study of problems of public finance and policy that accompany shifts in power.

This book examines how the information revolution has affected environmental policy and governance.

The world struggles with increasing threats to global sustainability, caused by population growth, overuse of fresh water resources, depletion of biodiversity, and reliance on non-renewable energy sources.

The human imprint on the biosphere has become so pronounced in recent years that there has been talk of a new geological era, the 'Anthropocene'.

This book addresses water management issues in the State of New Mexico.

Depending on their national level of income, development and modernization, all countries in the world can be generally categorized as either advanced or developing.

La nature a-t-elle un prix ?

This book is focused on the application of methodological approaches and systems of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the field of resource management.

It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly.

Shows how the economic approach of modeling natural resources as capital assets can be extended to ecosystems.

This title was first published in 2002.

This book presents a critical review of the status of energy security in Asia and suggests how a country or a region collectively can achieve energy security in two broad aspects.

This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other.

This book seeks to show the role of sustainability and innovation in the business and productive sector as good strategy to improve performance and contribute to growth and sustainable development through innovative strategies applied to the management process.

The book deals with urban transportation planning in light of environmental sustainability and social equity.

This book is a work that focuses on the forest environmental tax.

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates.

IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on the mitigation of climate change for researchers, students, and policymakers.

Complying with the forthcoming tightening of CO2 emission allocations in the EU may mean big bills for the industries affected.

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Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing: An Uneasy Relationship critically discusses the possibilities of decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth.

This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition.

A theoretical and empirical contribution to the quest for sustainability and environmental quality.

This completely revised fourth edition of Fundamentals of Sustainable Development provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to sustainable development for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the natural and social sciences, and beyond.

Nachhaltige Entwicklung war das deutsche Zauberwort der Weltklimakonferenz in Rio de Janeiro 1992.

A central asset of eco-efficiency analysis is that it does not depend on a specific evaluation of environmental impacts against economic effects, avoiding the often disputed results of neo-classical evaluation methods.

A state-of-the-art assessment of how geomorphology contributes to the comprehension, mapping and modelling of hazardous Earth surface processes.

Understanding Global Crises is an innovative and interdisciplinary text that investigates the key contemporary economic, social, and environmental crises and demonstrates their deep interconnection.

Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich.

This title was first published in 2003.