Environmental economics

What if climate change isn t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

Hemp Rising is a meticulously researched and passionately written call to restart industrial hemp as a cornerstone of a regenerative future.

Take the first step toward a better environment.

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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book.

'This book presents a salient truth: every investor - no matter how large or small - has the power to help address our climate crisis and build a more sustainable world.

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

The new international bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The World is Flat - this is an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century.

For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems.

Green issues have a large impact on how an organization is seen and huge implications for the organization's success, brand values and the sales decisions of consumers towards its products.

By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries, this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental policy and social change in a domestic, regional and global context.

Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies.

Tropical forests are disappearing at an unaltered pace, giving way to alternative land uses.

Environmental economists have in general paid little or no attention to the political context within which green taxation would be introduced.

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Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics brings together a choice selection of some of the most enduring academic writing published in this field in a single volume.

Wind energy is the great success story of modern renewable energy.

The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The management of environmental or green issues has become a key concern for many companies.

China and Taiwan are two of the fastest growing economies of the newly industrialized countries.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

The energy reserves of the Caspian Region have been hailed as the new 'Middle East'.

The Asian road to the market has generally been seen as a model of success and the object of widespread admiration.

A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "e;ordinary"e; taxation.

The book brings together twelve original essays on the meaning and implications of sustainable development.

In this timely book, leading authors explore the technologies that might help us to develop a sustainable energy future, emphasising renewable energy and the political and economic context needed for them to prosper.

Agricultural development in Central America is based on extensive growth, supported by macroeconomic policies that marginalize small peasants.

This book provides a succinct account of what may happen to the energy sector in the former Soviet Union in the medium- to long-run under alternative scenarios for macroeconomic reform.

'The book is a pioneering attempt to see exactly what difference economic valuation of environmental effects would have made to six actual, on-going, development projects, if it had been done at the time of appraisal.

An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development.

Investment projects are an important mechanism for economic development.

Sustainability Analysis provides a detailed exploration of current environmental thinking from a variety of perspectives, including institutional and psychological angles.

Leading scholars assess the transformations in energy security policy that flow from recognition of global climate change.

Green Trade Agreements reviews and analyses the environmental provisions that have become an important characteristic of the growing number of bilateral and regional free trade agreements.

The impact of the environment in general, and climate change in particular, is now entrenched as a key political concern.

This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters.

This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed.

Develops a new theory of 'identity' ecological modernization (EM), to analyse renewable history and policy development in many of the world's states which are leading the drive to install renewable energy.

With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.

How can we determine if current growth patterns are sustainable, and what changes to we need to make to make them more so?

The New Energy Crisis comes from the recent intrusion of climate change issues into energy economics and geopolitics.

Cutting carbon emissions is urgent but very challenging in wealthy democracies.

This book explores the economic challenges involved in managing hydrocarbon wealth in the Caspian region, and looks at how to design an optimal energy policy.

Holds critical information that is needed by anyone who wants to understand how to make money from 'green' technology and how to avoid investments that will soon suffer from hidden carbon liabilities.

A structured guideline for development and implementation of business strategies, programs, and models with core sustainability values is then proposed and explicitly discussed, drawing upon management models, tools and techniques proven to be effective in organizational decision-making and prognostication.

Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies.

Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water.

Natural resources management has two principal dimensions : Science-illuminated (earth, space, hydrological, pedological, information, etc.

This book focuses on issues related to a suite of technologies known as "e;Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),"e; which can be used to capture and store underground large amounts of industrial CO2 emissions.

This book offers a global perspective of the current state of affairs in the field of solar power engineering.