Environmental economics

The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.

The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies.

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet.

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneve in 1979, triggered an international dialogue on global warming.

Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.

Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind.

Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind.

Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development.

Today there are over a billion vehicles in the world, and within twenty years, the number will double, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth.

Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development.

Recently, the public attention has turned toward the intricate interrelation between economic growth and global warming.

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary work on marine conservation and fisheries management ever compiled.

Hundreds of millions of people still suffer from chronic hunger and food insecurity despite sufficient levels of global food production.

Hundreds of millions of people still suffer from chronic hunger and food insecurity despite sufficient levels of global food production.

Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet.

Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies.

Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems.

As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare.

Tropical forests have seen a tremendous growth in logging, mining, and oil and gas development over the past decades.

The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics.

The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics.

One of the most important and complex problems facing both developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic growth without harming the environment.

During the past century, tropical rain forests have been reduced to about half of their original area, with a consequent loss of biodiversity.

During the last 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereal grains, such as wheat and rice, have increased dramatically.

Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people?

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks.

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent.

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly.

Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly.

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities.

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions.

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions.