Environmental economics

Energy price rises have been amongst the biggest change that has taken place in our society over the last few decades.

This book describes the alarming condition of agriculture in the Anthropocene, when the ethical conception of agriculture as a service of common utility for both society and environment has progressively been marginalized.

This book presents strategies for managing disasters and reducing risks in Asian countries.

A rigorous and accessible guide to the current status and future prospects of the global energy system.

The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy.

Co-written by a pioneer of the sustainability movement, this groundbreaking volume offers a new way of thinking about the economics of sustainable energy, a goal that has eluded scientists and economists for decades.

Analysis of the law and politics of regulatory competence allocation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

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.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.

The connections between economics, planning, and the environment are receiv- ing increased attention among scholars and policy makers in many countries.

The genesis of this conference was on a quay of the port of Bergen in March 1985.

Economic Theory for Environmentalists is a much-needed and heralded new book that examines the implications of neoclassical economic theory and how it relates to the environment and environmental activity.

This insightful book employs high-profile company cases to focus on two major challenges for sustainable innovation: fuel and food.

The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

For decades, governments have tried to foster industrial competitiveness and economic growth.

A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation is unique in its clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket valuation techniques and their implementation.

A lively answer to those who sound alarms about population growth and resource useThe Ultimate Resource challenges conventional beliefs about the scarcity of energy and natural resources, the pollution of the environment, and the perils of overpopulation for our standard of living.

Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.

Exotic pests and diseases have long been an important concern in agriculture.

Sustainable Development Policy: A European Perspective uses a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives to explore the ways in which sustainable infrastructures can play a more prominent and effective role in international development policy.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

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.

How to survive and thrive in the post-industrial ageIn response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world-not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.

Crow and Albright outline if, what, and when communities learn from disasters to make them more resilient to future shocks.

In recent decades agricultural commodity surpluses in the developed world have contributed to a mantra of 'land surplus' in which set-aside, extensification, alternative land uses and 'wilding' have been key terms in debates over land.

The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program that builds on one of the nation's leading undergraduate environmental studies programs.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us.

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 1981, this book discusses the development of higher cost North Sea gas and oil fields.

This book addresses the potential of the transformation of biomass into a wide range of marketable products, and examines the biological, biochemical, physical and thermal processing of biomass into products such as fuels, power, heat, feeds, chemicals and materials.

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich besonders an Studenten der Wirtschaftswissenschaften.

This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa.

Originally published in 1988.

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of contemporary research on key topics in the field, as well as presenting the history of how the economic theory of fisheries exploitation has developed.

Seit Ende der 80er Jahre gehen Pionierländer des Umweltschutzes neue Wege.

Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management.

This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal production that will protect human and environmental health, enhance livelihood of smallholders and meet consumer needs.

Das Buch betrachtet Energiespar- und Klimaschutzaktivitäten vor allem unter psychosozialen Gesichtspunkten.

EDOARDOCROCI IEFE - Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy Voluntary approaches in environmental policy represent a "e;third wave"e; of regulation in the environmental field.

Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people.

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.