Environmental economics

Biofuel Cells: The Design and Application of Biological Catalysts presents a detailed examination of biofuel cells, from their fundamentals and basic principles through to the latest technological, materials, and bioengineering developments.

This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment.

This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting.

In the last few years, awareness and worries about the exhaustion of natural resources are increasing, but this fact is still very much discussed about its analytical measurement, and therefore not yet demonstrated.

This book applies the multidisciplinary approaches of econometrics, statistics, finance and artificial intelligence for pricing and forecasting the carbon market in the context of managerial issues.

The book examines innovation in environment-friendly technologies in the automobile industry.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

The first 50 years of ASEAN integration has brought peace and prosperity to the Southeast Asian region, while the next 50 will undoubtedly be fraught with unprecedented challenges.

Presenting the latest research on the sustainable development of energy systems, this book provides a broad and holistic perspective on various aspects of renewable energy sources and grid integration.

The Economics of Land Use brings together the most significant journal essays in key areas of contemporary agricultural, food and resource economics and land use policy.

The debate on the physical limits and constraints to the economic growth of globalized society is now widespread.

In the latest addition to the New Naturalist series, Ian Newton explores bird populations and what causes their fluctuation - food supplies, competitors, predators, parasites, pathogens and human activity.

In recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of forced displacements due to natural disasters, armed conflicts, and pandemics, which has favoured an increase in the number of temporary accommodations.

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds.

The book evaluates and analyses the level of green development in over 100 major cities in Asia Pacific.

State ownership in mineral industries has increased massively from the 1950's affecting the world mineral sector greatly.

This book presents a socio-economic analysis of the issues linking technological innovation in providing arsenic-safe drinking water in rural areas.

Originally published in 1992 Economics for the Wilds argues that an economics that properly values the resources of the wilds offers the best long-term security for their future.

Analyzes the extent to which the voters of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah are concerned about problems associated with development and the extent to which state senators respond to voters' concerns.

Public agencies and industry will probably spend tens of billions of dollars on new water pollution abatement facilities in the next few decades.

The oil price shocks of the 1970's led to severe recessions in the 1980's in the United States.

Urban land is a precious resource and originally published in 1961, Transportation and Urban Land aims to create an approach to analysing and projecting its uses with a particular focus on the household sector.

Many emerging economies are on the front line of the devastating impacts of global warming such as desertification and extreme weather events, but, for historical and political reasons, they follow ambitious growth targets with seemingly little concern for climate change and environmental degradation.

Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and realities of river use in 19th Century Britain and the failure of legal and technological remedies for river pollution.

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality.

This book shows, we believe, the breadth and the complexity of issues that econo- mists now tackle in their analysis of the connections between the ecosystem and the economic system.

Hard-hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free.

This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance.

Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined.

In this book, a more detailed analysis is performed on the basis of quarter-hourly time series of the supply of wind energy and photovoltaics.

Many of the world's fisheries face major challenges including overfishing, overcapacity and low returns.

The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management.

This Palgrave Pivot employs the concept of open source agriculture as a new social movement, which not only advocates a specific agenda but also creates technological products under a unique technology development model.

A high profile thought experiment asks leading scholars to make cases for spending additional aid money to combat major world problems.

Originally published in 1993.

The 1980s and 1990s have been a period of exciting new developments in the modelling of decision-making under risk and uncertainty.

Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy is a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of climate change policy, addressing the issues with a quantitative modelling approach.

Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom.

Originally published in 1979.

Over the last forty years, the field of public economics has emerged as a modern successor to public finance.

The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change.

Lessons in Sustainable Development from Japan and South Korea provides a concise overview of sustainable development in Japan and South Korea.

Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag- mented and eclectic policies and strategies.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

Originally published in 1976, this title concentrates upon the management of national forests.