Environmental economics

Global food price spikes in 2008 and again in 2011 coincided with a surge of political unrest in low- and middle-income countries.

If global society is to address the many environmental and other sustainability challenges that confront us in the twenty-first century, such as climate change and water resources, it will be necessary to make significant changes in our patterns of consumption, production, and distribution.

What are the impacts of population growth?

This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics.

This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together conceptual and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, the policy instruments, and the institutions.

A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public services, such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in Europe in less than 20 years.

Do we have the rights to optimism?

The rise of Asia, and China specifically, is the single most important force reshaping the world economy at the beginning of the 21st century.

Africa is a diverse continent.

Africa is a diverse continent.

Over the past several decades there has been increasing interest in, and concern about, the economics of the world's capture fishery resources.

Economic Growth and the Environment explores the debate on how to reconcile economic growth with protection of the natural environment, and the closely related discussion on whether an increasing scarcity of natural resources will eventually force economic growth to cease.

This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond.

Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major infrastructures, and modes of urbanization.

Networks like cables and pipelines are essential for a functioning energy market.

Networks like cables and pipelines are essential for a functioning energy market.

There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem.

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services.

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services.

If environmental protection is costly, how much should we spend on pollution control?

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy?

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage.

Bioinvasions and Globalization synthesises our current knowledge of the ecology and economics of biological invasions, providing an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications for managing the causes and consequences of one of the most pressing environmental issues facing humanity today.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy?

The book, a joint work of the African Development Bank and the African Union, presents a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas resources in Africa.

The New Energy Paradigm provides an overview of the current energy policy debate, contextualized by the oil shock from 2000, and considers how the trends in international energy markets impact on security of supply and climate change.

'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth.

Economic growth as we know it today cannot persist indefinitely if it entails continuous degradation of natural resources and the environment.

Applied Welfare Economics uses important results in the welfare economics literature to extend a conventional Harberger cost-benefit analysis.

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

China's urban sprawl has led to serious social cleavages.

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns.

The rise of Asia, and China specifically, is the single most important force reshaping the world economy at the beginning of the 21st century.

More than 50 developing countries depend on three or fewer commodities for more than half of their exports and, in fact, many rely on a single commodity for a large share of export earnings.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.

From land management to water rights, this volume looks at the current status of Common Property Resources, or CPRs, in South Asia.

The relentless exploitation and unsustainable use of wildlife, whether for food, medicine or other uses, is a key concern for conservationists worldwide.

This book traces the development of the standard property rights over five kinds of natural resource - inland rivers, ocean fisheries, petroleum resources, gold and base metals and forest resources - from classical times through to the 19th century.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage.

The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.

The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.

This book illustrates an alternative approach to 'state of sustainability' reporting by presenting cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary discussions on sustainability issues in the context of a developing country, Botswana.

This edited volume looks at energy poverty, an issue whose pivotal role in the fight for human development is only now being recognised by policymakers.