Environmental economics

This book focuses solely on the issues of agricultural productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches bringing solutions to food-insecure regions of the world, especially in south and southeast Asia and in Africa.

This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally.

Integrating science, economics and policy, this book explains the urgency of sticking to a strict carbon budget.

This volume explores interactions between academia and different societal stakeholders with a focus on sustainability.

'There should be a good market for this book.

Rapid structural transformation and urbanization are transforming agriculture and food production in rural areas across the world.

Analysis of Chinese environmental law with a focus on the development in statutory regulation, institution building and judicial innovation.

New Zealand and Australia are broadly considered to be countries in which sustainability and responsibility discourses are being pursued by governments and business alike, and in which incentives and initiatives are helping confront and overcome sustainability-related challenges.

Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century.

Although the majority of the world's forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost.

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency.

This book explores the new rules and codes that are required in order to foster the implementation of smart city technologies with a view to meeting the environmental and energy challenges posed by dynamic contemporary cities with increasing populations.

While geopolitics has captured global attention, geoeconomics is the often hidden force that governs countries' relationships.

'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs.

This book documents the history of irrigated agriculture and drainage in the San Joaquin Valley, and describes the hydrology and biogeochemical processes of salts and selenium, remediation technologies for salts and trace elements and policy and management options.

This book explores how the problem of global sustainability could turn into a major force for innovation leading to enhanced firm performance.

The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization.

Provides concise, thorough overview of science, technology, economics, policy, politics of climate change in a single volume.

This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive.

Fragen des Umweltschutzes im Unternehmen haben durch die sich in den letzten Jahren stark verdichtende CO2-Problematik (Klimaschutz) weltweite Aufmerksamkeit erfahren.

The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation.

This is the third volume of a three-volume final report, which thoroughly describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE - Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment, funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme.

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day.

The causes and effects of climate change are just as varied as the proposed solutions and approaches for dealing with the problem.

ISC 2022 is dedicated to the Niti Aayog policies to promote sustainability through exchange of ideas emerging out of the academia.

The world is witnessing a rapid growth in wind and other renewable based electricity generation due to environmental concerns associated with electricity generation from the conventional sources.

Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural modernisation.

Explore the prospects for a deliberative approach to global governance that puts inclusive and transformative communication at the heart.

Die moderne Ökonomie befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel.

Mention of the British countryside commonly evokes visions of pastoral contentment; but the nature of rural Britain has changed dramatically since 1945.

This book focuses on the notion of the environmental sustainability of the economy.

Originally published in 1984.

Marxism in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe offers a stimulating discussion on the ecological unfeasibility of capitalist society.

Many issues in food and agriculture are portrayed as increasingly polarized.

In the decade since the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janiero, the response of the world's governments and authorities to the threats to the global environment has been to enforce the reduction of energy consumption and harmful emissions - solutions primarily based around conventional energy resources and conventional thinking.

This edited book brings together in one place new studies of rural-urban interactions and their implications for regional growth and development in different regions within Asia.

Diese Einführung in die umweltorientierten Wirtschaftswissenschaften wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende der Umweltwissenschaften, die ihr ökologisches Wissen in ökonomische Handlungsbezüge setzen möchten.

Kristin Nicolaus erarbeitet in diesem Buch eine diskursdemokratische Perspektive auf Zahlungen für Ökosystemdienstleistungen (PES).

River systems around the world are degraded and are being used unsustainably.

This book demonstrates what the discipline of economics has to offer as support for analyzing cooperation on management of trans-boundary water resources.

When first published, Capitalism as if the World Matters, by one of the leading 'eco-warriors' of our time, shocked a generation of both environmentalists and business people.

First Published in 1998.