Environmental economics

Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries.

Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity.

Advances in science and policy during the past 50 years have prevented the predicted widespread food shortages as the world's population soared.

Energy, and access to energy, are essential to human life, civilisation and development.

China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate.

China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate.

Funding infrastructure has always been a challenging issue in any country and at any time, yet the topic is still largely unexplored.

What are the impacts of population growth?

Do we have the rights to optimism?

Transforming Urban Transport brings into focus the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations that have recently been adopted in major, democratically governed world cities that are seeking to advance sustainability aims.

Transforming Urban Transport brings into focus the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations that have recently been adopted in major, democratically governed world cities that are seeking to advance sustainability aims.

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring.

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring.

The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere.

The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere.

West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.

West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.

No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems.

No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems.

A unified theory of conservation that addresses the broad problem of conservation, the principles that inform conservation choices, and the application of those principles to the management of the natural world.

A unified theory of conservation that addresses the broad problem of conservation, the principles that inform conservation choices, and the application of those principles to the management of the natural world.

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s.

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s.

Handbook of Green Economics reveals the breadth and depth of advanced research on sustainability and growth, also identifying opportunities for future developments.

This book argues that focusing on the green economy and green finance is essential to counteract the catastrophic, socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

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

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

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

Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected.

Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected.

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.

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

The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years.

*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year* Spectacular .

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate RaworthFrom the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanityFarming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about.

How can we help poorer countries become richer without harming the planet?

Sustainable finance involves making investment decisions that consider not only financial returns, but also environmental, social, and governance factors.

Economic Effects of Natural Disasters explores how natural disasters affect sources of economic growth and development.

The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploitedHuman domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us.

The concept of circular economy is based on strategies, practices, policies, and technologies to achieve principles related to reusing, recycling, redesigning, repurposing, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recovering water, waste materials, and nutrients to preserve natural resources.

Environmental Sustainability and Economy contains the latest practical and theoretical concepts of sustainability science and economic growth.

This book defends and articulates an "e;Engaged Buddhist"e; approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism.

This volume defines and analyzes the Blue Economy, a system that encompasses all the economic activities which are happening in and around the ocean within a sustainable development framework, with focus on countries in Asia.

This book reviews the history and evolution of district heating networks, with a focus on current and future issues of the district heating sector.

This book focuses, in seven chapters, on the perspectives and solutions that different research groups offer to try to address problems related to SDG 14: Life Below Water.

Implementing the Circular Economy for Sustainable Development presents the concept of the circular economy with the goal of understanding its present status and how to better implement it, particularly through environmental policies.

Thermophysical Properties of Individual Hydrocarbons of Petroleum and Natural Gases: Properties, Methods, and Low-Carbon Technologies is a go-to data source for engineers who need derive property data on everyday components.