Environmental economics

The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood.

The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) has been at the epicenter of global energy markets because of its substantial endowment of hydrocarbons.

Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) beschreibt in dem vorliegenden Jahresgutachten Wege zur Lösung globaler Umweltprobleme.

The COVID-19 crisis has proven that sustainability of an institution or organization requires a constant review of one's strategic positioning and the execution of pertinent plans in response to evolving externalities.

Technological Systems in the Bio Industries: An International Study represents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and systematic effort to understand the nature and role of technological change in a rapidly evolving arena of economic activity that can be loosely referred to as the bio industries.

The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood.

This book provides a framework for making administration effective and improving mitigation and rehabilitation measures with a view to ensuring a safer life for citizens.

This Encyclopedia provides a cutting-edge, up-to-date reference source on mineral and energy policies around the world.

A comprehensive dictionary of environmental economics, compiled by leading academics in the field.

Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African Continent, but frustrated by the slow pace of large scale change, this book is focused on filling the knowledge gap for those tackling Africa's serious social problems.

Drought is an insidious hazard of nature.

The objective of the book is to adopt the application of data analytics to enhance the sustainability and resilience of the green supply chain networks.

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.

Germany is seen as a leader in thermal retrofit policy and practice, but how effective is its approach?

This book examines the recent controversy between international trade and environmental policies.

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day.

The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups.

This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised countries present diverse but critical concerns.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

Almost every energy scenario assumes an enormous growth in the demand for energy in the coming decades.

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices.

Responding to a need for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the consequences of climate change, this book brings experts in climate science, engineering, urban planning, and conservation biology into conversation with scholars in law, geography, anthropology and ethics.

Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "e;War on Coal.

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of CO2 compression, transportation processes and safety issues for post combustion CO2 capture applications for a 900 MW pulverized hard coal-fired power plant, this book assesses techniques for boosting the pressure of CO2 to pipeline pressure values with a minimal amount of energy.

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy.

This volume explores 25 case studies of fiscal measures that have been adopted successfully by governments in North America and Europe to reduce environmental degradation.

A comprehensive analysis of environmental externality, combining theory, algorithms, and applications to provide a unified and balanced framework.

An enlarged and revised book which looks at some programs of state land use control.

How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling.

Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is dependent on these resources for their livelihoods.

Although the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol focused world attention on the global climate, it was just one step in the ongoing process of addressing climate change in all its facets.

This is a challenge to conventional thinking around money and the 'debt crisis'.

International experts provide a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living/non-living environment and mankind.

Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities provides an overview of measurement systems and tools to enable communities to self-assess and benchmark their progress along a continuum of smart, intelligent, and sustainable development.

This book investigates the role that interest groups have played over the years in influencing the government of Namibia, the World Bank, the European Union and project implementation authorities to not construct the proposed Epupa Hydroelectric Power Station on the Kunene River in the Baynes mountains, a region on the border between Namibia and Angola.

This book provides evidence on the relevance of environmental and social factors in decision making.

This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future.

Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'.

This book, originally published in 1984 by a group of leading international commentators on the oil market and major corporate figures int eh market, investigates the underlying forces determining the oil market in the 1970s and 80s.

The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications.

This book presents a new System Dynamics model (the ERRE model), a novel stock and flow consistent global impact assessment model designed by the authors to address the financial risks emerging from the interaction between economic growth and environmental limits under the presence of shocks.

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.

This is an easy-to-read textbook providing the reader with the basis to comprehend the major energy technologies from a physical and economical perspective.

Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics.